A high-ranking United Nations official says attacks on Rohingya Muslims appear to be continuing in Myanmar and it is not yet safe for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh to begin returning to their homes.
On Thursday morning, Donald Trump is expected to make his debut at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
The UN will make a fresh push from Thursday to jump-start Syrian peace talks, as violence continues to rage in a seven-year-old war that has killed more than 340,000 people.
A dozen North Korean female ice hockey players entered the South Thursday to form a unified team -- the Koreas' first for nearly three decades -- at next month's Winter Olympics.
A top Russian diplomat on Wednesday accused the United States of promoting unverified reports about chemical weapons attacks in Syria in order to cloud Russia's peace initiatives.
The Syrian government said on Wednesday that claims by France and the United States that it was still using chemical weapons were "lies".
Agence France-Presse (AFP)
For the second consecutive year, Switzerland is the world's best country, according to the U.S. News & World Report.
Anti-capitalists marched through Swiss cities on Tuesday to protest a planned visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to the World Economic Forum (WEF) and broke through a security cordon in Davos.
France's foreign minister is expressing annoyance that the Trump administration is pressuring European allies to redesign the Iranian nuclear deal to fit U.S. needs.