The United States for the first time was added to a list of “backsliding democracies” in a report released Monday by the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance.… Read more
Eleven years ago, 29 coal miners were killed in one of New Zealand’s worst industrial disasters — and one of countless accidents that underscore the human cost of coal power,… Read more
Seven women based in Australia plan to sue the Qatari government and state airline over invasive gynecological searches they were subject to before boarding a flight from Doha — an… Read more
A knife-wielding man rampaged through a Tokyo Metro train on Sunday, setting a fire and injuring at least 17 passengers as commuters headed into the city center for Halloween festivities,… Read more
Matteo Salvini, a former interior minister and the head of Italy’s right-wing League party, is on trial on kidnapping charges related to his denial of entry to a humanitarian ship… Read more
News that an armed Haitian gang kidnapped 17 members of an Ohio-based missionary group — including five children — on Saturday once again pushed Haiti into the center of an… Read more
Somalia’s National Theatre, built by the Chinese in 1967, has been occupied by warlords and targeted by suicide bombers. For three decades, it had not actually screened a film —… Read more