A daughter of Dubai’s powerful ruler who tried to flee the country in 2018 only to be detained by commandos in a boat off India has re-emerged in new videos published Tuesday, saying she doesn’t know if she’s “going to survive this situation.”
A leading challenger to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in elections next month said Tuesday that he is reviewing his ties with the founders of the Lincoln Project — a Republican group that opposed former President Donald Trump and whose leadership has been engulfed in a sexual harassment scandal.
North Korean hackers tried breaking into the computer systems of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to access information on a coronavirus vaccine, South Korea's spy agency said Tuesday, according to a South Korean lawmaker and multiple reports.
Police in Burma have filed a new charge against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her lawyer said Tuesday, which may allow her to be held indefinitely without trial.
Staff at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra have been encouraged to ditch the terms "mother" and "father" with the hope of being more gender-inclusive.
A rocket attack at a U.S.-led military base in Kurdish northern Iraq on Monday killed a civilian contractor and wounded five other people including a U.S. service member, according to initial reports, the U.S. coalition in Iraq said.
When the team of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny urged people to come out to their residential courtyards and shine their cellphone flashlights in a display of unity, many responded with jokes and skepticism. After two weekends of nationwide demonstrations, the new protest format looked to some like a retreat.
Residents in northeastern Japan on Sunday cleaned up clutter and debris in stores and homes after a strong earthquake set off a landslide on a highway, damaged buildings and parts of bullet train lines and caused power blackouts for thousands of people.
Many women have "conclusively and without a doubt" been raped in the Tigray region, home to Ethiopia’s secretive conflict - which may have left tens of thousands of civilians dead - the country’s minister for women said Thursday in a rare government admission of its fallout.
It's been 10 years since Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak was forced from power by millions of protesters. It’s considered one of the high points of what was then called the "Arab Spring." And we were right in the middle of it.
Russia is prepared for a split with the European Union if the EU imposes new crippling sanctions amid a dispute over the treatment of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the nation's top diplomat warned Friday.
The Chinese government is banning BBC News from landing in its country after the British outlet published an explosive story on alleged torture and rape occurring in Uighur concentration camps.
A team of scientists from the World Health Organization (WHO) is just getting home from their four-week stay in Wuhan, China, probing the origins of COVID-19. Their work is already attracting attention.
A Saudi women’s rights activist who pushed to end the country's ban on female drivers has been freed after spending just over 1,000 days in prison, where she reportedly “had been forced to kiss and perform other sexual acts on [her] interrogators.”
The Paris Opera has vowed to bring diversity to the famous ballet company, orchestra, and dance school, further fueling the debate of American-style “cancel culture” entering France’s art scene.
After delivering a Zoom lecture for two hours, Professor Dong Wang of National University of Singapore soon realized that none of his students heard a word because his mic had been muted, the local Independent news outlet reported.