It was the early hours of the morning when a guard entered Sohrab’s cell – a small, dark room with a barred window and a blanket on the floor – in Kabul’s sprawling Pul-e-Charkhi prison last August.

Officials in Texas are set to vote Tuesday on a new public school curriculum that incorporates lessons from the Bible as early as kindergarten, that provoked criticism from advocacy groups and ...

Police in Georgia’s capital have moved in to break up a tent camp that demonstrators set up on a central thoroughfare to protest the results of last month’s parliamentary election and demand a new ...

Opposition protesters in Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia and its separatist government appear to have reached an agreement to end days of unrest in which key government buildings were seized ...

Forty-five prominent activists in Hong Kong have been sentenced to up to 10 years in jail, sparking criticism from foreign governments and rights groups. The democracy advocates were among 47 people c ...

Two Australian tourists are being treated in Thailand for suspected severe alcohol poisoning after apparently consuming tainted drinks in neighboring Laos. Australian media say the two 19-year-old ...

Donald Trump’s first stint in the White House proved to be a chaotic ride for the nation’s capital. Now with Trump set to return to power — backed by a Republican-controlled Congress and the momentum ...

The trial of a man accused of holding down a teenage boy so colleagues could rape and abuse him at a New Hampshire youth center in the 1990s begins Tuesday. It’s the second criminal trial to stem from ...

Northern California and the Pacific Northwest are bracing for what is expected to be the strongest storm of the season so far, with heavy rain and winds set to pummel the region and potentially cause ...

Asian shares advanced Tuesday, apart from in China, after most U.S. stocks ticked higher to recover some of their swoon from last week. Oil prices and U.S. futures edged higher. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 ...

Big money to respond to climate change is key to the United Nations talks underway in Azerbaijan. Vulnerable nations say they need as much as $1.3 trillion to cope with damage they’ve already suffered ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KION-TV) -- KION is taking a closer look at the critical state of road projects affected by winter storm damage in Santa Cruz County. The ongoing need for funding repairs has never ...