Australia's Prime Minister, Malcom Turnbull, announced Tuesday that the country will be introducing stricter visa requirements for skilled foreign workers. The Prime Minister said the focus is to ensure that Australian jobs are "given to Australians...

The Paris Criminal Court , began a trial Tuesday over the alleged abuse of two minors by a French soldier in Burkina Faso in 2015. The French soldier, only recognized by the name Sebastian L., is alleged to film...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday called for an early general election to take place on June 8th of this year as opposed to the scheduled 2020 general election. May's decision to call for the election is...

Over 1,000 Palestinian political prisoners in six Israeli prisons embarked on an indefinite hunger strike starting on Monday, in observance of Palestinian Prisoners Day. The strikers say they want better medical care, more humane transfers between...

Alphabet Inc. , owner of Google, and the Russian Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) , reached an out-of-court settlement with in a dispute over Google's requiring Android phone manufacturers to pre-install its own search tool...

Former South Korean president Guen-Hye Park was indicted on numerous corruption charges including extortion, abuse of power, and bribery on Monday. Prosecutors from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' officer also indicted Shin Dong-bin ,...

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan , announced a victory on Sunday after 51.5 percent of Turkish voters elected to expand presidential powers. However, his political opponents are demanding a recount as some of the ballots did...

Aya Hijazi, a dual US-Egyptian citizen who has been in prison for three years in relation to her foundation dedicated to helping street children, was of acquitted all charges by a Cairo court on Sunday. Seven others, including HIzaji's husband,...

An Egyptian criminal court in Cairo sentenced Habib el-Adly, the former interior minister under former president Hosni Mubarak, to seven years in jail on Saturday, for embezzling more than $100m of public funds. Adly was the head of Egypt's feared...

The US Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Thursday sanction against the Iranian prison company Tehran Prisons Organization and one of its senior officials, Sohrab Soleimani, for human rights abuses...