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A scavenger picks through garbage in a low-income neighbourhood of Jakarta, Indonesia.

Separate attacks in Egypt have killed two police officers and wounded nearly a dozen other people.

Islamist militant group Boko Haram is in talks with the Nigerian government to release more than 200 girls abducted six months ago and negotiate a cease-fire to a deadly insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives.

Kurdish forces have begun a second month of defending the northern Syrian border city of Kobani from Islamic State militants, working increasingly with a U.S.-led coalition to push back the ultra-radical group.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein briefs journalists during a press conference in Geneva.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif met Wednesday in Vienna for talks on international efforts to limit Iran’s nuclear program.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says tensions between Moscow and Washington over the Ukraine crisis threaten "strategic stability," and that his country will not be "blackmailed" by Western sanctions.

Hakkari province, Turkey

More than nine million Syrians have been forced to leave their homes in the last few years. Now, with IS advancing in both Syria and Iraq, the situation is getting worse. “No conflict has ever seen so many deaths, so many refugees, so many internally displaced people in so little time,” said Frej Fenniche, a representative of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), during a hearing on 13 October organised by human rights subcommittee.

Protesters in the Mexican state of Guerrero ransacked government headquarters on Monday, escalating demonstrations over the disappearance of dozens of students last month.