People in Kiribati went to the polls on Wednesday for the first round of voting in a national election expected to serve as a referendum on rising living costs and the government’s stronger ties with China. A second round of voting is scheduled on Aug. 19 for all parliamentary seats…
Toomaj Salehi, the Iranian dissident rapper who escaped the death penalty earlier this summer has been cleared entirely of…
A US citizen has been sentenced to 15 days in a Russian prison on charges of “petty hooliganism” for…
Japanese railways and airlines are canceling services as Typhoon Ampil gathers strength in the western Pacific, with the storm…
Conflict between elephants and humans is a growing, and potentially deadly, problem in some parts of India. Now, the…
As Kyiv’s forces advance farther into Russia following their surprise incursion last week, Ukrainians living near the border are watching…
A Russian court has sentenced a Russian-American woman to 12 years in prison for treason after she made a…
New Zealand is set to extradite internet mogul Kim Dotcom to the United States after the country’s justice minister…
More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its war against Hamas, the health ministry in the enclave said Thursday, yet another…