Saudi Arabia has charged a women’s rights activist detained since November over her social media posts with launching a “propaganda campaign”, according to court...
Canada will soon require that health warnings be printed on individual cigarettes and cigars in a further crackdown on smoking, the country’s addictions minister...
A rape case that has pitched a 23-year-old woman against Senegal’s most prominent opposition leader has dismayed feminists in the country, fearing their cause...
Latvia’s foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics was elected as the Baltic country’s new president on Wednesday, the first openly gay person to hold the office. ...
A Norwegian man and his associates appeared in a UK court Wednesday to answer charges over an alleged conspiracy involving “extreme body modifications” —...
Faced with record-breaking heat, Vietnam’s capital Hanoi has turned off some street lights to save electricity as demand for air conditioning soars. Parks in...
Philippine mother-of-three Stella Sibonga is desperate to end a marriage she never wanted. But divorce in the Catholic-majority country is illegal, and a court...
Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved on Tuesday a bill that would limit expanded demarcations of Indigenous lands, which are considered key to protecting...
Iraq’s shrunken and conflict-scarred Christian community is launching a new television channel as part of efforts to save their dying language, spoken for more...