Uganda's main opposition leader was freed Tuesday after spending two months in jail over treason charges after he claimed an election victory over the country's long-time president.
The office of Israel's defense minister says it has blocked an Israeli delegation from traveling to the West Bank to meet with the Palestinian president.
China swiftly rejected an international tribunal's ruling Tuesday that its expansive claim to the South China Sea had no legal basis, saying the ruling was null and void and that Beijing would not accept it.
Human Rights Watch is urging an end to "forced anal examinations" with a report documenting them in eight countries, mostly in Africa, saying the practice is based on flawed ideas about supposedly proving homosexual conduct.
Zimbabwe police have charged the organizer of the country's biggest shutdown protest in close to a decade with inciting violence and disturbing the peace.
Embassies and aid workers are trying to evacuate staff from South Sudan's capital, Juba, as a precarious calm settles over the city following several days of deadly clashes.
A state-linked Saudi newspaper is reporting that a trial will begin soon for those accused of negligence in connection with a crane collapse in Mecca that killed 111 pilgrims and injured nearly 240 people just days before the start of last year's annual hajj pilgrimage.
Italian news reports say that two trains have collided head-on in the southern region of Puglia, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others.
Police in Thailand raided the office of an independent news website on Tuesday to look for leaflets urging a vote against a draft constitution proposed by the country's military government.
An international tribunal ruled unanimously Tuesday that there is no legal basis for China's "nine-dash line" claiming rights to much of the South China Sea.
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is spending her 19th birthday in Kenya in the world's largest refugee camp? to draw attention to the global refugee crisis, especially as the Dadaab camp faces pressure to close.
The U.N.-backed tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri says it's halting legal proceedings against a Hezbollah commander who was killed in Syria.