Ethnic minority Britons face “shocking” discrimination in the labour market, with those originating from Muslim-majority countries facing the greatest obstacles, new UK research has revealed on Friday.

A judge in the United States has sentenced former white police officer Jason Van Dyke to six years and nine months in prison, plus two years probation, for the 2014 murder of black teenager Laquan McDonald.

Over 24 million people in war-torn Yemen remain in desperate need of humanitarian aid, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Some 43 Palestinians suffered injuries with Israeli live ammunition during the 43nd Friday of “The Great March of Return” along the eastern borders of the besieged Gaza Strip.

The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) has urged US to be accountable to the arrest of Marzieh Hashemi, a journalist and anchor working for Iran's English-language Press TV news channel, saying there is no justification for denying her religious rights.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on Russia and the United States to spare no effort to keep the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in place and to sit down at the negotiating table to extend the New START Treaty.

Federal officials have confirmed that a prominent American-born anchorwoman on Iranian state television was jailed in the United States as a material witness and has not been charged with any crime, according to court papers.

Ms. Marzieh Hashemi, the renowned US-born Iranian news presenter who had traveled to the US in order to visit her ill brother, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on unspecified charges.

The UN food agency delivered emergency food and vouchers for over 9.5 million people in Yemen in December, just shy of its 10 million monthly target in the famine-threatened country, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

The massive teachers' strike in Los Angeles, California, entered its second day with some charter school educators joining their public school counterparts.