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UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed an independent panel Monday to review the United Nations’ handling of allegations of child sexual abuse by French soldiers in Central African Republic. Confidential documents have shown that the U.N.’s top human rights officials did not follow up for more than half a …

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 …