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.

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

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

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,