The Bangladeshi branch of al-Qaida claimed responsibility Tuesday for the killing of a gay rights activist and his friend, undermining the prime minister’s insistence just hours earlier that her political…
Afghanistan’s first-ever female district police chief, Col. Jamila Bayaz, 50, left, talks on the phone at her office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Afghanistan’s first-ever female district police…
By KARL RITTER Delegates attend the closing session of the 19th conference of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013. The…
By MIRWAIS KHAN and AMIR SHAH FILE –In this file photo taken Dec. 17, 2009, Afghan policewomen arrive to a graduation ceremony after eight weeks of training at a police…
United Nations Development Program Administrator Helen Clark, center, waits to be introduced at the Chamber of Senators in Mexico City, Thursday, March 14, 2013. The U.N. says the proportion of…
