South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft and the ...

The Iraqi authorities have finally dispersed a first round of compensation payments to people from Sinjar district in ...

A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a ...

The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...

Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a crackdown on miners.

A new film raises questions about the shattering consequences of Britain’s race to become a global nuclear power ...

The mine in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region was the catalyst for the nearly ten-year long civil war through the 1990s.

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists and an advocacy group for Native Americans are suing the U.S. to try to block a Nevada lithium mine they say will drive an endangered desert wildflower to ...

The end may not be near, but the end is clear—according to those who have kept a close eye on Myanmar’s ongoing civil war, since a ... an international human rights consultant and a founding ...

In an expletive-laced defense of his bloody war on drugs, former president Rodrigo Duterte yesterday admitted having organized a death squad against criminals, but claimed it was composed not of ...

Or might some zealots in uniform — whipped up by crackpots in the right-wing media silo — decide to side with the MAGAts in a new American Civil War? Wars — even that “good war” under Fr ...

Recognising mental health as a basic human right is essential for fostering personal, community, and socio-economic development. It’s encouraging to witness the growing focus on mental health in ...