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Brazilian president slammed Trump's threat to impose 50 percent tariffs on Latin America's largest economy as "unacceptable ...
Kenya marked its fight for democracy on Monday, with police blocking main roads in Nairobi ahead of potential protests.
Interpreting the anti-immigrant PVV’s success as a sign of a large right-wing or xenophobic swing in Dutch public opinion seems unconvincing.
States with abysmal human rights records seek election to the UN Human Rights Council not to advance human rights but to block their realization.
Despite the obvious benefits for economic growth, there are nearly insurmountable barriers for mass unskilled or semi-skilled immigration into Japan.
A UN report revealed North Korean women undergo forced labor, sexual violence, and forced abortion and infanticide in the country’s detention centers.
Those who avoid comparing politicians like Trump, Putin, or Orban with dictators like Hitler or Stalin, misunderstand everyday life under authoritarianism.
The autonomous Kurdish region in Syria held its first local elections. The Syrian Kurds plan to form a federation in Rojava after ISIS is defeated.
Globalization and technological change provide opportunities for the world economy but increased inequality and divided the world into winners and losers.
The West sees support for Philippines' hard-liner President Duterte as odd, but Filipinos see poverty reduction and combatting of crime and corruption.
Netflix series "The Club" set among Turkey's Jews is an unexpected hit, challenging taboos with its glimpse into a long-overlooked community.
The US said it has returned 77 looted antiquities to Yemen, adding the objects would be housed "temporarily" in a museum in Washington.