India’s Parliament opened debate Thursday on a landmark bill to reserve one-third of legislative seats for women, which could set off a sweeping redrawing of voting boundaries that could sharpen political tensions nationwide.

Iranian authorities have sentenced to death four more people, including a woman, over last January's protests, several rights groups said on Tuesday. Iran has already hanged seven people in connection with the protests,

Pope Leo XIV is travelling to the western Cameroon city of Bamenda to preach a message of peace in the epicenter of a separatist conflict that humanitarian groups have called one of the world’s most neglected crises.

A South African opposition party leader, Julius Malema, was sentenced to five years imprisonment on Thursday, after he was convicted of breaking firearm laws by firing a rifle at a political rally in 2018.

The U.S. military killed three people Wednesday in its fifth strike in five days targeting suspected drug-trafficking boats in the eastern Pacific.

Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said in an interview with NBC News that many Greenlanders "don't feel safe" amid President Donald Trump's repeated push to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory.

Hungary's politics have shifted definitively away from Russia and toward Europe, but quitting a cheap Russian energy habit could be painful.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was awarded the prestigious International Four Freedoms Award at a ceremony Thursday for his and his nation’s courage and resilience in resisting the full-scale invasion launched more than four years ago by Russia.