US President Donald Trump said on January 13 he’s cancelled talks with Iranian officials amid a protest crackdown, telling Iranian citizens “help is on its way.” Trump did not offer any details about ...
Adek Berry/Getty Images China's population declined for the fourth year in a row, reaching 1.405 billion. Falling birth rates and an aging population threaten China's economy and the global economy. G...
A Ukrainian soldier fires a Javelin anti-tank missile. Dmytro Smolienko via Reuters Connect NATO's secretary general said up to 25,000 Russian soldiers are being killed in Ukraine each month. Mark Rut...
A bipartisan delegation of US lawmakers will meet with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland on Friday to reassure them of congressional support despite President Donald Trump's threats to seize the Ar...
United Nations leads condemnation of Israeli demolition of headquarters of UN agency for Palestinian refugees....
One of the smallest members of the EU now holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. The Cypriot government wants to promote European autonomy over the next six months....
Activists report that more than 2,400 people have been killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests, according to updated figures from the Human Rights Activist News Agency, which says most of th...
Amnesty International Iran Researcher Raha Bahreini paints a harrowing portrait of a nation under siege by its own government. Amid an internet blackout, reports of systemic, indiscriminate violence h...
Protests and defiance occurred in Somalia after Israel's recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland. Analysts say it could inspire secessionist movements in other parts of the continent....
Catherine Viette welcomes Kim Aris, son of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who bears witness to the fraught political landscape of Myanmar five years after the 2021 military coup. Mr. Ari...
US military forces boarded and took control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela on Tuesday, as part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to take control of the South American cou...
Details emerge of unprecedented crackdown, raising questions over future of protest movement...
A ceasefire agreement and the integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into the Syrian army was announced following the army's takeover of areas in the east of the country, including military...
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian homes are either entirely without heating, or with severely reduced heating. This, as temperatures rarely rise above minus 10. It’s the result of Russia’s campaign o...
Schools across parts of northern Nigeria started reopening on January 12, after months of closure triggered by the abduction of hundreds of students in November 2025. The move follows a circular fro...
In 2021, when Beijing finally pledged to stop building and financing new coal power plants overseas, Western governments and climate advocates rejoiced. John Kerry, US climate envoy at the time, said ...
Trump arrived in Davos by helicopter on Wednesday, entering a tense atmosphere as European and allied leaders pushed back against his demands for control of the Arctic island which is a part of the Ki...
Syrian government forces on January 21 took full control of the sprawling camp of al-Hol in northeast Syria housing thousands of people linked to the Islamic State group, as a truce between the govern...
Circle said digital financial infrastructure, including stablecoins, can save 20% of the cost of delivering humanitarian aid....
François Picard welcomes Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Director of Iran Human Rights NGO. He offers a rare quantified data-driven-account of fatalities in the current Irani...