In Russia, the Kremlin has been steadily cracking down on the internet. Surveillance and censorship have increased, ...

One legacy of British colonial rule in India is a ban on making and selling an Indigenous spirit called mahua. It's resulted ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek began his continent-spanning walk in Ethiopia in January 2013. Since then, his Out ...

Argentina’s president reverses a law that established femicide as a crime. Also, a new report shows that the majority of ...

In Belarus, strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko has been in power for more than 30 years. Over the weekend, Lukashenko ...

As the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continues to hold, Palestinians have been making their way back to their homes in ...

Transit in most global cities is government-run. But in Japan, that’s not the case. There, private companies run a sprawling ...

Syria’s de-facto leader Ahmad al-Sharaa was declared the country’s transitional president on Wednesday. The former rebel leader addressed Syrians directly yesterday and called for justice and ...

Shamans, the practitioners of an ancient belief system, are often disparaged in South Korea. But they also hold a special place in the country’s culture.

Scientists are concerned about the mutations happening in the H5N1 virus — more commonly known as bird flu. This week, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control warned that new mutations ...

Ten days into President Donald Trump’s administration, the US southern border remains closed to asylum-seekers. About a quarter million migrants who had been waiting in Mexico for US asylum ...

After being deported from the United States, Maria Butina is now a member of parliament in Russia’s Duma. She’s become a ...