New data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women reveal limited progress in achieving gender equality in ...

The United States is in the midst of a place-renaming moment. From the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, ...

“Myanmar is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, so this quake is not a surprise. It looks to have occurred on the major Sagaing Fault, which marks the boundary between two ...

The spy and surveillance agencies are being bolstered to deal with intense social and political disaffection fuelled by ...

The quake shook a swath of Southeast Asia. Myanmar’s military government said 144 people were killed in just three cities.

Utah has become the first state to prohibit fluoride in its water systems, with a law that will take effect on May 7. The move comes six weeks after fluoride critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was ...

Democracy in Asia is rapidly deteriorating—accelerated by waning international support and democratic backsliding even in the ...

Before the Hamas-led attack in October 2023 started the war in Gaza ... Under the new system, political appointees — one from the coalition and one from the opposition — would replace the ...

A discussion on religious freedom abroad invariably circled back to the present political turmoil in the United States under the second Trump administration.

Nova Scotia's recent population boom has triggered a redrawing of the federal political map that comes into play ... process that ended in September 2023. This is the first election when the ...

For the first half of the twentieth century, Sudan was a joint protectorate of Egypt and the United Kingdom, known as the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. Egypt and the United Kingdom signed a treaty ...

U.S. adults largely agree that at least some immigrants living in the U.S. illegally should be deported. Most say arrests of immigrants in the country illegally should be allowed at protests or in ...