The ruler of Kuwait stressed the importance of national unity and stability in a speech marking the final ten days of Ramadan.For the latest headlines ...
Algerian activist Amira Bouraoui was Tuesday sentenced to two years in jail for “offending Islam” and for insulting the president, a prisoners’ rights ...
Jailed Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty alongside three others on Friday to joining a banned candlelight vigil for victims of ...
Syria’s lawmakers on Wednesday completed voting for their preferred presidential candidate as nominations closed ahead of next month’s polls, which ...
Syria is to hold a presidential election on May 26, the parliament speaker announced Sunday, the country’s second in the shadow of civil war, seen as ...
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny risks cardiac arrest “any minute” as his health has rapidly deteriorated, doctors warned Saturday, urging ...
Nine veteran Hong Kong democracy activists -- including publisher Jimmy Lai -- will be sentenced on Friday for their roles in one of the city’s ...
From a secure room in the Capitol on Jan. 6, as rioters pummeled police and vandalized the building, Vice President Mike Pence tried to assert control ...
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and two pro-democracy activists pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges of participating in an illegal march during ...
Palestinian election officials announced Sunday that 36 candidate lists had been approved to run in legislative elections set for next month, the ...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez reshuffled his government Tuesday, in a move that will see the majority of government posts handed to women.For ...
Tunisian police fired tear gas on protesters on Tuesday after hundreds tried to storm a government headquarters in the southern city of Tataouine to ...
Thailand named new ministers on Tuesday to replace three members of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha’s government convicted last month of insurrection ...
Kuwait’s government backed down on Wednesday after threatening legal action this month against lawmakers from the elected parliament for violating ...
The French government defended media freedom and the “right to inform” on Monday as it stood by the France 24 news channel, following fierce criticism ...
Myanmar’s ruling junta has declared martial law in a wide area of the country’s largest city, as security forces killed dozens of protesters over the ...
Hong Kong democracy activists have launched a new push to continue their fight among residents living abroad in the wake of a sweeping crackdown by ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has toned down his anti-Western and anti-US rhetoric in an apparent effort to reset the rocky relationship with ...
The acting leader of Myanmar’s parallel civilian government, appointed by ousted lawmakers in the wake of a Feb. 1 military coup, addressed the public ...
China is now no longer compliant with Hong Kong’s joint declaration after Beijing announced sweeping changes to the region’s electoral system, Britain ...
Russian police detained around 150 people at a meeting of independent and opposition politicians in Moscow on Saturday, accusing them of links to an ...
The UN Security Council urged Somalia’s government on Friday to organize elections “without delay” in a resolution that stressed the pressing threat ...
Twenty-one Hong Kong activists will remain in custody after a court on Friday rejected requests by some for bail and others withdrew their ...
Australia has suspended its defense cooperation with Myanmar and is redirecting humanitarian aid in the country because of last month’s military ...
The Chinese government’s top diplomat State Councilor Wang Yi on Sunday said the electoral system in Hong Kong must be improved for long-term ...
China’s proposal for Hong Kong electoral reforms could prevent a “dictatorship of the majority”, pro-Beijing Hong Kong lawmaker Martin Liao told ...
Security forces in Myanmar made mass arrests and appeared to use lethal force on Sunday as they intensified their efforts to break up protests a month ...
US President Joe Biden spoke to the international community Monday for the first since taking office, saying that democracy must be defended as it was ...
Thai pro-democracy protesters scaled a massive Bangkok monument Saturday, draping it in a crimson cloth and calling for the kingdom to abolish its ...
Beset by political infighting, split between three territories and distrustful of their institutions, many Palestinians are skeptical that their first ...
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