Ecuador's president protested against the Constitutional Court, the court said the attack threatened the independence of the ...

India faces an ultimatum from the US with major political and economic ramifications: end purchases of Russian oil or ...

A powerful earthquake hit Russia's Far East, triggering tsunamis and evacuations across the Pacific, from Hawaii to Japan.

The former official residence of Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Hasina was turned into a museum as a reminder of her ...

On November 9, 2016, Dr. Bandy Lee’s phone became inundated with calls and emails. To the surprise of much of the world, Donald Trump had just been elected president of the United States, and Lee’s ...

It’s no secret that private, for-profit prison corporations have accumulated substantial wealth from the U.S. criminal justice system. But another, relatively unknown, aspect of their reach is their ...

Three decades after communism fell in Eastern Europe, dictatorial regimes that stamp out liberal values re-consolidate in Poland, Hungary, and Russia.

In a landmark conviction by a Salvadoran judge, a man was given 50 years in prison for killing his girlfriend. While prosecuting one femicide does not undo El Salvador's entrenched and dangerous ...

Globalization and technological change provide opportunities for the world economy but increased inequality and divided the world into winners and losers.

Despite the obvious benefits for economic growth, there are nearly insurmountable barriers for mass unskilled or semi-skilled immigration into Japan.

A shrinking global population may hurt humankind in ways it typically pays little attention to. This undesirable state of affairs must be altered.