Uganda shuts down internet access nationwide, two days ahead of elections in which President Museveni seeks to extend his ...

Iraq’s next government will determine whether Iran’s regional power thrives or contracts, and this hinges on Iraq’s ability ...

Iran signaled readiness for war or talks as US warns over protests, while rights group reports hundreds, if not thousands of ...

US military interventions, including the invasion of Venezuela, are oil-driven power grabs serving Trump and the fossil fuel ...

The world's oceans absorbed a record amount of heat in 2025, further priming conditions for sea level rise, violent storms, ...

More than two dozen people had been killed in Iran in a crackdown on the most significant protests to hit the Islamic ...

The US, which attacked Venezuela abducting its president, has a long history of interventions and support for dictatorships ...

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 ...

Despite major gains in education and reducing poverty in recent decades, entrenched inequalities are eroding trust in institutions and democratic systems around the world, the UN warned Tuesday.

States with abysmal human rights records seek election to the UN Human Rights Council not to advance human rights but to block their realization. This cynical behavior is an aberration that needs to ...

PAN AMERICAN HIGHWAY, GUATEMALA — The child descendants of the great Mayan Empire line the edges of the world’s longest highway, hoping drivers will stop and gift them the Christmas presents their ...