The summit, which will be held from 3-5 February, is expected to bring together 35 heads of state and government, more than 150 government delegations and over 6,000 attendees....
Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, whose shopkeepers helped bring Islamist clerics to power in 1979, once again became a hotspot for anti-regime rallies...
Democratic history is a timeline of states acting to curb over-mighty figures, from kings to business tycoons...
The US attack on Venezuela is part of a long history of military interventions and political influence by the United States in Latin America. Here are five such examples since World War II....
Jerome Powell, a particularly mild-mannered speaker, slammed recent attempts to intimidate his department. Li Yuanqing/Xinhua via Getty Images The DOJ is probing Jerome Powell over his congressional t...
The United States on Thursday said Iran halted 800 executions of protesters under pressure from President Donald Trump, after Gulf allies appeared to pull him back from military action over Tehran's d...
Leaderless revolutions are, at times, a reaction to historical distrust of charismatic leaders who, after victory, themselves become the source of absolutist and oppressive power....
President Museveni's supporters expect victory for the National Resistance Movement. Meanwhile, a youthful base frustrated by unemployment hopes whoever wins will heed their wishes for a better future...
A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a major offshore wind farm can resume, handing the industry at least a temporary victory as President Trump seeks to shut it down. (Image credit: Steve Helber...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday a "state of emergency" will be declared in the energy sector, after relentless Russian strikes on heat and electricity supplies during freezing wi...
US president Donald Trump appears to have dialed back threats of an imminent strike on Iran. Despite the shift in rhetoric, the airspace over the Islamic Republic has closed to commercial flights. Sto...
Uganda’s presidential election was plagued by widespread delays Thursday in addition to a days-long internet shutdown that has been criticized as an anti-democratic tactic in a country where the presi...
A US immigration officer shot and wounded a Venezuelan man fleeing a traffic stop in Minneapolis on Wednesday, the government said, escalating tension over an unwelcome deployment of militarized fede...
The United States said on Wednesday it is launching the second phase of its plan to end the Gaza war, even as key elements of the first phase - including a complete ceasefire between Israel and Hamas...
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s been told "on good authority" that plans for executions in Iran have stopped. Tehran, on its end, has signaled fast trials and executions ahead in it...
Military personnel from several NATO countries including Germany, France, Sweden and Norway headed to Greenland on Thursday as Denmark and its allies prepared for exercises to try to assure US Presid...
In Uganda, millions prepare to vote in a presidential election steeped in tension and controversy. President Yoweri Museveni, Africa’s longest-serving leader, is seeking a seventh term in office, but ...
Donald Trump has announced that the second phase of the plan to end the war in Gaza has started. With key elements of phase one still unfulfilled - like a complete ceasefire - the announcement of the ...
The nationwide protests challenging Iran’s theocracy appeared increasingly smothered Thursday, a week on from authorities shutting the country off from the world and escalating a bloody crackdown that...
In addition to women’s rights protests in 2022, experts believe that the protests currently happening in Iran represent the biggest challenge to the Islamic Republic since its founding in 1979. While ...