A Saudi woman accepted as a refugee in Canada said in an Australian television interview that she expected her experience would inspire other women to flee her homeland.

With demonstrations expected to take place in various Guatemalan cities on Monday and Tuesday, the UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, is urging the Guatemalan Government to guarantee freedom of expression and opinion, and the right to peaceful assembly and association.

Two French policemen from the prestigious Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) are going on trial on charges of raping a Canadian tourist near the Paris police headquarters, according to reports.

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement boycotted a United Nations (UN)-led ceasefire monitoring team in the war-ravaged country’s flashpoint city of Hudaydah, accusing the head of the team of pursuing “other agendas”.

In the United States, the probability of dying from opioids has for the first time surpassed the likelihood of being killed in a car crash, according to a new report by the National Safety Council.

A 14-year-old Palestinian who was shot by Israeli forces during mass protests along the perimeter fence on Friday has died of his wounds, Gaza's health ministry has said.

Explosion of an electromagnetic bomb shook the city of Kabul, capital city of Afghanistan on Tuesday morning, IRNA reported.

Iran consul general to Erbil announced that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is scheduled to have a trip to Iraq Kurdistan Region (KRG) on Tuesday, IRNA reported.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pointed to unilateral US sanctions against Islamic Republic specified that Iranian nation would succeed in leaving the sanctions behind, IRNA reported.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi stated Iran's right to take advantage of all kinds of technologies and said Tehran will ask for nobody's approval or permission for launching its own satellites, IRNA reported.