Dutch nationalist politician Geert Wilders went on trial in absentia Monday after being charged with discrimination and inciting hatred due to statements he made on the campaign trial in 2014. Wilders is the leader and founder...

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday blocked the execution of a murder convict who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2012. The order is pending reconsideration of an earlier ruling that held that Imdad Ali's condition...

On Sunday, Australia announced plans to further strengthen its already strict refugee and asylum seeker policies. In particular, legislation will be brought before Parliament next week which would disallow asylum seekers who have returned to their homelands from...

According to a news report on Sunday, Turkey's government has dismissed 10,000 additional civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets for their supposed connection with US-based religious leader Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey has accused of orchestrating the...

Thousand of protesters called for the resignation of President Park Geun-hye after it was revealed she allowed individuals to influence state affairs. The demonstration of thousands came after the President apologized for allowing Choi Soon-sil, who...

Airstrikes led by the Saudi Arabian coalition killed at least 90 prisoners and injured dozens more in the Zaydiyah district of the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, Yemen on Saturday. The prison housed up to 84 prisoners...

The UN General Assembly on Friday elected 14 member-states by secret ballot to serve three-year terms on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) beginning January 1. The newly elected countries include Brazil, Croatia, Egypt,...

A jury in Portland, Oregon on Thursday acquitted all seven defendants involved in the 41-day armed occupation of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge , in a trial that lasted nearly six weeks. The defendants were acquitted of...

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday granted a stay on the preliminary injunction that had halted Michigan's ban on taking selfies with completed voting ballots....

The UN General Assembly on Thursday voted to begin negotiations on banning nuclear weapons, despite opposition votes from world leaders including the United States, Russia, and the UK. The vote in the UN disarmament and...