This weekend we saw President-elect Donald Trump lash out twice at Americans who were exercising their constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of expression. His reaction should chill every American with its implication: A President Trump may well try to suppress speech.
Behnam Lalo crunches over jagged glass and tiptoes around a fallen altar, burned Bibles and a decapitated porcelain Virgin Mary. He picks up a cross from a heap of rubble and wipes away ashes with his priest's robes.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for an overhaul of the United Nations on Monday, saying its Security Council had failed to address the Syria conflict and other global challenges.
Iraqi paramilitary forces are in a raging battle to take a key ISIS stronghold west of Mosul, but their presence is prompting fears that the fighting could result in the escalation of sectarian violence in Iraq.
Three weeks ago, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces announced the beginning of the long-anticipated offensive to take over ISIS' de facto capital, Raqqa. Since then, the coalition of Kurdish and Arab militias -- spearheaded by the YPG Kurdish militant group -- has achieved a slow but steady advance, capturing villages as close as 19 miles from the city.
At least 50 people were killed early Sunday when a Patna-Indore Express train derailed near India's northern city of Kanpur, Additional Director General of Police DS Chaudhary told CNN-affiliate CNN 18.
Poverty, crime and danger are common words used to describe Rio de Janeiro's hilltop slums, known as favelas. In a new project called Favelagrafia, nine photographers from Rio's favelas, were chosen to capture what everyday life really looks like.
A renewed blitz on Syria's war-ravaged eastern Aleppo has killed almost 300 people in five days -- including children, rescuers and medical organizations say.
As President-elect Donald Trump's transition continues with an unprecedented level of confusion and delay, it is worth noting that this, in fact, is the easy part. Transitions from one administration to another are so formalized and organized at this stage -- buoyed by a congressional statute that lays out the process and protocols -- that nothing but utter mismanagement can explain what is unfolding.
