Egyptian authorities have embarked on a renewed crackdown on peaceful dissent, through arbitrary detentions and politically-motivated criminal investigations, while preparing to defend the country’s ...

Investment bank reckons gas is best placed to quickly fill crucial 'baseload' gap needed to supply booming demand ...

Egypt and Jordan have rejected the president's proposal to remove Palestinian refugees from Gaza and send them to neighboring ...

A banner screened in the night between Sunday and Monday on a wall of Pyramid Cestius and of the FAO building in Rome accused ...

A prominent Georgian journalist known for her criticism of the government has been on hunger strike for 16 days in protest at her detention, rights groups said Monday, as the Caucasus country wages a ...

Amnesty is urging the UK government to take 'take urgent and meaningful steps to prevent Israel's genocidal acts against ...

Civil society, the media and democratic norms have increasingly come under threat as the Fidesz-KDNP coalition government in ...

Though the board is allowed to take “political and social considerations” into account, it said the recent proposal did not meet standards for divestment.

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he intends to push the leaders of Egypt and ...

Fighting with M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo left six United Nations peacekeepers dead, UN officials said ...

Three U.N. peacekeepers from South Africa have been killed in fighting M23 rebels in eastern Congo, a political party and a trade union said Saturday. The peacekeepers were ...