Egypt's State Council General Assembly on Saturday nominated their own council head despite a recent amendment reserving that right for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi . The nomination follows a contentious debate over amending the...

Thousands of Tunisians on Saturday protested a bill that would grant amnesty to officials facing corruption charges from a previous regime. Under the amnesty bill officials who had money seized from them following the overthrow...

UN Secretary-General (UN SG) António Guterres on Friday appointed UK's Mark Lowcock as Under-Secretary-General (USG) in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and as Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC). Lowcock...

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to disclose the draft of the so-called "Muslim ban" executive ored. Arab American Civil Rights League v. Trump, is a...

The President of Congo's Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante (CENI) , Corneille Nangaa on Friday warned the presidential election may be postponed due to sectarian violence. Nangaa make the remarks during an interview...

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission of Thailand on Thursday ordered Facebook Thailand to remove a video of King Maha Vajiralongkorn and other posts by Tuesday or face legal action. The video claims to show the...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday signed the Fairbanks Declaration to affirm protection of the arctic climate. The move was a part of the 10th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting , with goals to maintain...

The US District Court of Northern California gave final approval on Thursday for Volkswagen's settlement related to cheating on the emissions of their 3.0-liter vehicles sold in the US. The settlement requires Volkswagen...

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday issued a new charging policy urging prosecutors to seek the largest sentences for each crime. This reverses the past administrations policy regarding drug related crimes. The so-called Holder Memo [text,...

Former congresswoman Corrine Brown was convicted of fraud on Thursday. Brown represented the Jacksonville, Florida district from 1993 to 2017 as part of the Democratic party. She had lost re-election last fall after her indictment. Brown was convicted of 18...