Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian urged Armenians to “overcome the trauma” of their ethnic kin massacred by the Ottoman Turks and stop yearning for their “lost homeland” as they marked the 109th anniversary of the genocide on Wednesday.
In move seen by the opposition as an attempt to de-sinocise Taiwan, the ruling party is pushing ahead with plans to rid the island of monuments to the dictator
Three foreign-born residents in Japan are suing the country’s government over alleged racial profiling, highlighting an ongoing debate about Japanese identity and nationality.
Marcos said the Philippines will ramp up security cooperation with its allies and partners. He said the country in recent years has been subjected to illegal, aggressive and irresponsible actions in the South China Sea.
The revelations from Canada’s spy agency come as the former Conservative party leader told the inquiry he believed his party lost as many as nine seats because of a foreign misinformation campaign spearheaded by China.
Eight Filipinos were nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a bloody Good Friday tradition, including a carpenter, who was crucified for the 34th time.
The ruling could imperil the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he wages war with Hamas in Gaza and clashes with key ally the United States.
Data from the report disclosed that between Feb. 2023 and Feb. 2024, the tourist city accommodated nearly 5,000 asylum seekers at the cost of $208 per day for each individual.
The judge said his decision was based on weighing the “harm” of denying MV euthanasia and the suffering of her parents who could see their daughter die.
López Obrador’s view — like many of his policies — harkens back to the 1970s, a period when many officials believed that Mexican cartels selling drugs to gringos was a U.S. issue, not a Mexican one.
Officials in the South Asian nation, where Russians and Ukrainians have fled the war in Ukraine, said they were canceling long-term tourist visa extensions amid public fury over the event.
In an effort to create gender-inclusive language in Spanish-speaking countries, there has been a push to use “x,” “e,” or “@” to create general-neutral nouns instead of using “o” or “a.”
Press freedom groups said the president’s decision to make public the phone number of a New York Times reporter Thursday was an attempt to punish critical reporting, and exposed the reporter to potential danger.
There was no prior indication that the machine was using the technology, nor that a camera was monitoring student movement and purchases. Users were not asked for permission for their faces to be scanned or analysed.
After more than two decades as part of a Moscow-led military alliance, Armenia has effectively suspended its membership as a result of a growing rift with Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Often called the world’s largest experiment in democracy, the Indian election comes at a crucial time for the country, as it gains prominence on the world stage.
The sharply declining birthrate in Korea is projected to result in the closures of approximately one-third of daycare centers and kindergartens in the country by 2028, a report showed Tuesday.
A 1,500-year-old community has risen up to defend its home in the Old City fearing that a land deal is a maneuver by Jewish ultranationalist organizations that is being covered up by the war in Gaza
The government official said she was "shocked" by Rep. Omar's "ethno-racist rhetoric" during a speech on Sunday in which, according to one translation, she said Somalia was "for Somalis only" and that they would "liberate the occupied territory... "
Protesters blocked access to the Incan site in Peru over a new ticketing system. Tourists have been evacuated, but there could be more unrest. Here’s what to know.
Premier Minns of New South Wales, Australia said the “fascist, ridiculous behaviour” had no place in NSW and warned police had the power to rip balaclavas off people and expose their identities.
The beginning of talks, announced by both countries on Thursday, comes as US forces in Iraq and Syria have been regularly targeted by drone attacks launched by Iran-backed militias against the backdrop of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Prime Minister Sudani Sudani's statement came a day after a U.S. strike killed a militia leader in Baghdad, prompting anger among Iran-aligned groups that demanded the government end the presence of the coalition in Iraq.
The draft text of the UN Cybercrime treaty gives sweeping, privacy-invasive powers to law enforcement agencies without robust human rights limitations and safeguards.
India’s comments defending Iran’s actions indicate support for Iran despite the growing tensions in West Asia between Iran and the U.S. over Israel’s war on Gaza, U.S. strikes on Yemen and attacks by Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea.
"I thank you for your commitment to dialogue,” the pope said in a private meeting on Jan. 10 with 15 representatives of an association of European leftist politicians and academics that seeks to bridge Catholic social teaching and Marxist theory.
Thailand became the first country in Asia to fully decriminalize cannabis in June 2022, a move years in the making and a rarity in a region where many countries give long jail terms and even death sentences for marijuana-related charges.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party, which Nelson Mandela once led, voted in favor of a motion in Parliament last month to close the Israeli Embassy in South Africa and cut diplomatic ties because of the war in Gaza.
The Panama Canal Authority is weighing potential fixes that include an artificial lake to pump water into the canal and cloud seeding to boost rainfall, but both options would take years to implement, if they’re even feasible.
Ethiopia said it held talks Monday on military cooperation with Somaliland, just a week after a deal with the breakaway Somali region on sea access stoked tensions in the Horn of Africa.
President Daniel Noboa said he would mobilise troops on the streets and in prisons for 60 days after gangster Jose Adolfo Macias, aka "Fito", disappeared.
For years to come, its violent dissolution will loom large in the Armenian consciousness and reverberate across other majority-minority conflicts around the globe.