Jimmy Lai becomes highest-profile arrest under new national security laws

This is how autocrats cement their power. They distract you.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s actions belie his words

Dissidents and exiles write to Hongkongers to express solidarity and offer hope for the future

The world can’t afford to ignore Tigray.

A feared unit of Sudan's security forces raped women as they dispersed protesters, witnesses say.

An impartial accounting for crimes committed in Ethiopia must be conducted and a mechanism set up for the country to heal.

War and an aid blockade have turned Tigray’s health system into a “Swiss cheese”, a doctor says, with everything from medicines to gauze lacking.

Anti-government grassroots movement says it wants to foster feeling of national unity

Around 70 million people are suffering displacement in crowded camps, awaiting the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic. 

Thousands of ethnic Tigrayans have been held without trial in makeshift prisons as Ethiopia’s government battles a 19-month-old insurgency. At least 17 people have died, Reuters reporting shows....

New Zealand appointed its first Indigenous female foreign minister Monday to represent what's shaping up to be one of the most diverse parliaments in the world.

The international response to the dire food insecurity in Ethiopia's Tigray region was repeatedly stymied by Russia and China working in the U.N. Security Council on the Ethiopian government's...

Xi Jinping has been making trade agreements in Asia and now Europe, hoping to head off the incoming president’s efforts to rally a united front against China.

Mass graves are still being found, underscoring the scale of atrocities committed by Vladimir Putin’s forces in Ukraine.

The United Nations is increasingly hearing accounts of rape and sexual violence in Ukraine, a senior U.N. official told the Security Council on Monday, as a Ukrainian human rights group accused...

Thousands of women have protested against the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention.

A New York Times analysis identified more than 350 white extremist attacks in Europe, North America and Australia since 2011. Perpetrators of the deadliest attacks engaged with extremist content...

Since the brutal crackdown began against protests disputing the results of the Belarusian presidential election on August 9, which are widely seen as falsified, many have come forward to tell...

Thousands of diabetics in region face ‘agonising death’ amid blockage on food, fuel and medicines in 14-month conflict

South East Asian countries decide not to invite the military coup leader to their meeting.

Wildfires have turned southeast Australia into a charred, apocalyptic nightmare, and threaten to wipe out entire species of animals.

People turn to desperate measures after authorities stop 6 million people accessing their own money

American whistleblower Edward Snowden has once again expressed interest in seeking political asylum in Germany. He has warned that if he turns up dead, it will not be the result of suicide.

Twin drone attacks hit residential neighbourhood of Midre Genet in regional Tigray capital of Mekelle.

Merkel defended democratic values in an interview following a contentious summer for her government. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer also said he doesn't expect a repeat of the crisis that nearly...

Local medics said seven people died, including several children, as the region in northern Ethiopia plunged deeper into conflict just days after a truce collapsed.

Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun slipped away from her family in Kuwait, and made it all the way to Thailand. There, her hopes of making it to Australia were foiled.

The conflict in Syria has raged for eight years and millions are displaced. I met some of the children and families carving out a life far from home.