Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced that the Scandinavian country will hold a parliamentary election on March 24. Voters will determine who sits in the Folketing, or parliament,

Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai's fraud conviction and prison sentence were overturned by a Hong Kong court on Thursday, in a surprise legal decision that comes soon after Lai was jailed for 20 years on a separate national security charge.

Syrian government forces and Druze fighters in the southern Sweida province have exchanged prisoners from last summer's clashes in a step toward a political deal.

Mexico’s government says a surge of online disinformation has amplified cartel violence and spread panic since the death of the country’s most powerful drug lord

A Hong Kong court has sentenced the father of a U.S.-based activist to eight months in prison in the first case brought against the relative of a pro-democracy activist wanted by the

The United States will offer passport services for the first time in Israeli settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank, a move that is expected to draw criticism from foreign nations and human rights advocates.

Police in Kenya say they arrested a man named in the alleged scheme that duped Kenyans with promises of skilled work in Russia that saw them end up on the front lines of the fighting in

A panel of Brazil's Supreme Court voted on Wednesday to convict a former lawmaker and his brother to 76 years in prison for their involvement in the 2018 assassination of councilwoman and human rights activist Marielle Franco in Rio de Janeiro,