Clashes have broken out between Yellow Vest protesters and police in the French capital, Paris, as demonstrators took to the streets for a 23rd week of marches against economic inequality and President Emmanuel Macron's government.
The UK government and Nigeria's Anti-trafficking Agency launched a new media campaign to prevent women and girls from being exploited and sold into modern-day slavery.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the trumped-up charges of online terrorism and defaming “respected institutions” on which a Pakistani reporter is due to appear in court in the southern city of Karachi tomorrow. The case has been designed to intimidate and silence Pakistan’s journalists, RSF said.
On Monday night, as Notre Dame Cathedral burned, firefighters scrambled to save its precious contents.
South Korea's 66-year abortion ban must be lifted by end of 2020 the country's Constitutional Court ruled Thursday, in a major win for pro-choice advocates.
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, who was accused to have released reams of secret documents that embarrassed the United States government, was taken into police custody on Thursday (11) after being evicted from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has lived for almost seven years.
Brunei's new law punishing homosexual sex with death by stoning has sent a wave of fear across the LGBT population in neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia.
The four children of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi have received homes and multi-million dollar payments from the kingdom in the months since a government sanctioned hit squad was sent to Istanbul to kill him, a report has claimed.
When the tiny, oil-rich kingdom of Brunei first announced in 2013 that it would adopt strict Islamic laws, including death by stoning for gay sex, many in the country's LGBT community considered fleeing.
A comedian with a popular anti-corruption message but no political experience took the lead in the first round of Ukraine’s presidential election on Sunday, early exit polls showed.
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