Nearly a million young Ukrainians are still living in an eternal lockdown, doing either all or part of their lessons online.

Trump's administration cut to 18 months from five years the period of time work permits are valid for refugees, asylum ...

Australia’s leaders agreed on Monday to tougher gun laws after the country’s worst mass shooting in almost three decades saw a father and son open fire on a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach, killing 15 ...

The seizure of an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast this week comes after long-standing tensions between Washington and Caracas, starting with US sanctions in 2006 and most recently strikes against ...

As US funding for global health collapses, rival powers are stepping in — and the world’s pandemic defenses are weakening. When health systems sag, outbreaks spread, instability grows, and adversaries ...

Incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, who is vying for a second term, has scored a big win in general elections, sources close to the premier said on Wednesday. Iraqis on Tuesday ...

Many people imagine that countries with authoritarian regimes are horrifying places, with populations ruled by terror and indoctrinated to blind obedience by some ...

One thing that nearly all observers of the American economy (and other developed countries around the world) can agree on is that income inequality has increased considerably in recent decades. The ...

The political status of Puerto Rico is a long-standing issue that requires urgent action. The island, an unincorporated territory of the United States, is neither a sovereign nation nor a U.S. state.

In 2017, China began to construct a huge network of detention camps in its northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Over a million indigenous Uyghur and Kazakhs are currently detained without ...

States with abysmal human rights records seek election to the UN Human Rights Council not to advance human rights but to block their realization. This cynical behavior is an aberration that needs to ...

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND – Last Friday afternoon, as New Zealand scrambled to find order following the massacre of 50 worshippers in two mosques, Kurdish former refugee Ashleigh Ali-Aziz’s phone rang ...