A Vietnamese court jailed a prominent former lawyer for three years on Friday over Facebook posts, a ruling condemned by rights groups as a fresh attack on freedom of expression in the communist ...

There will be "real-world harm" if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, a global network warned Thursday while disputing Mark Zuckerberg's claim such moderation ...

An estimated 3.2 million children under the age of five are expected to face acute malnutrition this year in war-torn Sudan, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

A Russian court will next week issue verdicts against three of Alexei Navalny's former lawyers, being tried for "extremism" as part of an escalating crackdown on the Kremlin critic's allies even after ...

Outgoing US president Joe Biden will give a swansong foreign policy speech next week claiming America is far stronger than when Donald Trump left office, a senior US official said Friday.

The last two years saw average temperatures exceed a critical warming limit for the first time, Europe's climate monitor said Friday, as the UN demanded "trail-blazing" climate action.

France must take back its jihadist nationals from Syria, Turkey's top diplomat said Friday, insisting Washington was its only interlocutor for developments in the northeast where Ankara is threatening ...

South Korea's presidential security chief resigned Friday as he faced questioning over why his guards prevented the detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, and as investigators prepared to ...

Schools and government offices will close and thousands of police will be deployed on Monday to oversee a planned "million-strong" rally by an influential religious group opposing calls to unseat ...

Three people were killed Friday morning and six wounded by Ukrainian strikes on the Russian-occupied part of Donetsk region, officials said.

China’s Vice-Minister of Commerce, Wang Shouwen, met with the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp (LVS), Robert ...

The European Union could begin lifting sanctions on Syria if the war-torn country's new rulers take steps to form an inclusive government that protects minorities, the bloc's top diplomat said Friday.