UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday he was "horrified" by the violence in Iran as a government crackdown continued. The Human Rights Activists News Agency estimated the death toll at 646 w...
Legislation would prevent American forces from using congressional funds to annex Greenland...
Thailand’s election season has triggered a dizzying array of cash giveaway offers from parties vying for votes, from a US$2,000 payment for newborns to debt write-offs and US$100 monthly top-ups for t...
US president set to meet top aides at the White House about a possible intervention...
Geoeconomic confrontation — ranging from sanctions to tariffs — is the top threat, found the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Global Risks Report on the eve of its annual meeting gathering the world's bus...
Ugandan officials claimed that they could also shut down the internet-free, encrypted messaging app last week, but haven't done so yet....
China’s top counter-espionage agency has warned that overseas entities are attempting to steal the country’s geographic data through covert mapping operations that threaten national security. Foreign ...
The Chilean government has awarded a contract to Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech to supply its influenza vaccine ahead of the southern hemisphere winter. The vaccine will be part of Chi...
US President Donald Trump’s latest moves to acquire Greenland are rattling Nuuk and Copenhagen....
Jafar Panahi, a renowned Iranian film-maker, is urging the international community to help Iranian people because he says the Islamic Republic has lost its legitimacy and will stop at nothing to survi...
Prime minister hoping to consolidate grip on power by winning majority for ruling party...
A train travelling from Thailand’s capital to the country’s northeast was derailed on Wednesday after a construction crane fell on top of one of its carriages, killing at least 22 people and injuri...
The Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers are set to visit the White House on Wednesday in a high-stakes effort to ease tensions over Greenland, after President Donald Trump said the territory “nee...
Families call for release of political prisoners at the brutal El Helicoide jail...
US and Israeli officials who will shepherd fragile ceasefire were linked with contentious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation...
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....
Move comes despite Trump’s threat to ‘take very strong action’ if Tehran executes demonstrators...
The foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland are hoping to defuse tensions over the Arctic island in Washington talks. US President Donald Trump has doubled down on threats to seize the autonomous D...
Since its founding, the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has stood in opposition. In 2026, it hopes to win state-level governing power and perhaps more....
U.S. Vice President JD Vance will meet Denmark's foreign minister and his Greenlandic counterpart in Washington on Wednesday to discuss the Arctic island, at the center of a geopolitical storm. (Image...