The Taliban have ordered the closure of national and foreign NGOs in Afghanistan that employ women, escalating restrictions on aid work and women’s participation in public life.
Voting begins in Chad with opposition parties urging a boycott and casting the polls as a test of whether the transition to civilian rule has real traction.
The Carter Center says the former president died in Plains, Georgia, after hospice care, closing a life that stretched from the White House to global humanitarian work.
The former footballer was sworn in as the country's sixth president while Salome Zourabichvili rejected the result and anti-government protests spread.
Malawian officials say thousands have crossed the border after Mozambique’s election unrest deepened, with some temporary sites now sheltering new arrivals.
New allegations that Yoon Suk Yeol authorized the use of live firearms against lawmakers have intensified South Korea’s constitutional and political crisis.
Montenegro’s justice minister has approved the extradition of crypto entrepreneur Do Kwon to the US, ending a long legal battle over the collapse of TerraUSD and Luna.
Germany’s president opened the way to early parliamentary elections after the governing coalition collapsed and lawmakers failed to assemble a new majority.
2024-12-27 event: A court in southern China sentenced Fan Weiqiu to death for driving into a crowd in Zhuhai, an attack that killed 35 people and injured dozens more.
The National Assembly suspended Han after a dispute over Constitutional Court appointments, deepening the crisis triggered by President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial-law declaration.
India’s former prime minister Manmohan Singh has died in New Delhi at the age of 92, closing a public life that helped steer the country through a major economic opening.
Lawmakers accuse Han Duck-soo of blocking constitutional court appointments and helping prolong the crisis triggered by Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law attempt.
A court in Adıyaman has sentenced the hotel owner and architect after the 2023 earthquake disaster that killed 72 people, including school volleyball players from Cyprus.
Mozambican authorities reported 33 deaths and 15 injuries after inmates breached a wall, while officials offered differing accounts of whether election protests triggered the riot.
Amsterdam courts have handed prison terms to four people over violence that followed the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv match, with judges citing video evidence and the seriousness of the attacks.
A Minsk court convicted the opposition figure of public order offences and national security-related charges, according to Viasna and AP, as Belarus continued its long-running repression of dissent.
ʻAisake Valu Eke secured a 16-8 secret ballot result in parliament, with King Tupou VI endorsing the outcome before his expected swearing-in next year.