SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni security officials say ground fighting and Saudi-led airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Shiite rebels continue across the country as negotiators in neighboring Oman try to bring a halt to the combat. The officials say representatives of the southern separatist movement were meeting with the rebels, known as Houthis, …

BEIJING – China says racial discrimination and police abuses are rife in the United States, in a report intended as a counterpoint to U.S. criticisms of China’s own human rights record. The report issued Friday by the Cabinet-level State Council Information Office cited the incident in Ferguson, Missouri, and other …

MONTREAL – A Canadian man sentenced to life in prison for killing and dismembering his Chinese lover and mailing the body parts to schools and political parties has joined a matchmaking website for inmates. Luka Magnotta’s profile was posted Sunday on Canadian Inmates Connect Inc., a website that tries to …

MELBOURNE, Australia – Australian authorities on Wednesday ended a 15-hour prison riot involving up to 300 inmates in Melbourne suspected to have been triggered by a ban on smoking. Rioters armed with pieces of wood lit fires in buildings, broke down an internal wall and smashed windows during the chaos, …

LONDON – Amnesty International has expressed outrage after a British tribunal confirmed that Britain’s government had spied on the human rights organization. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal wrote to Amnesty on Thursday to notify it that Britain’s electronic intercepting agency, GCHQ, had violated its rules when it kept intercepted communications from …

LISBON, Portugal – A Portuguese actor says he was detained on suspicion of terrorism after meditating and chanting Buddhist texts aboard a plane at Paris Orly airport. Heitor Lourenco, 47, says he was reciting texts in Tibetan from his smartphone screen on the Lisbon-bound Transavia plane when police ordered everybody …

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Hungary’s parliament has approved amendments tightening the country’s asylum system, a response to the record number of migrants and refugees reaching the country over the past year. The plan, sharply criticized by the U.N.’s refugee agency, was approved Monday by lawmakers from the governing Fidesz party, its …

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka’s revival of a media regulatory group that empowers the government to imprison or fine journalists is raising concerns from press freedom groups. President Maithripala Sirisena made new appointments last week to the council he had dissolved following his shock election victory in January over …

MEXICO CITY – Mexican journalist Pedro Ferriz says he was robbed at gunpoint while webcasting and he kept recording, taping part of his own robbery. Ferriz was speaking into a cellphone app in a car in Mexico City when he was robbed of his watch and phone by an assailant …

BEIRUT – Activists say a tunnel explosion in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo has lightly damaged the wall of the city’s famous citadel. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday the tunnel was dug by rebels before it was discovered by troops who detonated it. The Observatory …