Police ordered the public to disperse from downtown Los Angeles after further unrest, with security forces firing tear gas at ...

France is set to mark Tuesday 10 years since an Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper that shocked the country and led to fierce debate about freedom of expression and religion.

In the United States, incumbents – politicians who once wore out the pavements of Washington, DC – often get re-elected. Research has documented that in some years well over 90 percent of incumbents ...

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) – a huge hydro dam on the Nile River that is set to become Africa’s largest – is a national project fully financed by the Ethiopian people and government.

Doda, Jammu and Kashmir — As the Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir continues to be under the worst lockdown in recent memory, the federal government dropped a bombshell in the Indian parliament by ...

Earlier this month, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab admitted that the state had lost the nation’s confidence and is unable to protect its people. More recently, the government defaulted on its ...

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 ...

Spain began investigating Tuesday the causes of the crippling blackout that disrupted millions of lives across the Iberian Peninsula, with a court probing potential “sabotage” of critical ...

Chinese investment remains lucrative and difficult to resist, even amid the controversy surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. For many global industries’ supply chains, cooperation with Chinese ...

A report released by the UN Tuesday revealed North Korean women undergo forced labor, sexual violence, and forced abortion and infanticide in the country’s detention centers. The report acknowledges ...

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.