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The new director of Amnesty International in the Americas has criticized the use of the military and heavy-handed measures to combat crime in the region: ‘The Armed Forces are not trained to ensure public safety’...

A recent investigation has revealed evidence that China’s distant-water fishing fleet, the world’s biggest in scale, commits environmental and labor abuses in the southwest Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa....

In response to protesters calling for a ‘caliphate’ in Germany last week, hundreds of people took to the streets of Hamburg to voice support for democracy. The latest rally was organized by secular Islamic groups....

Former President Donald Trump hit the jackpot this spring when his social media company finally went public....

Science Advances report also finds people of color and low-income residents in US disproportionately affected...

More frequent heatwaves mean bees are unable to thermoregulate their hives – further endangering a species already in decline...

China’s president arrives as EU anti-subsidy investigations and tensions over espionage, Ukraine and Taiwan continue...

A rare dye made from snails for the robes of the Roman elite almost 2,000 years ago has been unearthed at a cricket club....

Three Indian nationals have been arrested and charged over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, which sparked a major diplomatic row between the two countries....

Ukraine has been rationing ammunition and bullets; meanwhile the Russian army has been using ‘human wave’ tactics by sending poorly trained recruits to the frontline in a bid to force Ukraine use up all of its ammunition....

A new sanctions proposal is expected to target Russia’s liquified natural gas for the first time, but the measures would only cover a quarter of Moscow’s profits....

Nonprofits and local officials say the 2024 Games event is failing a pledge to be ‘first ever inclusive and socially responsible’ event of its kind....

With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower. But the aerial combat that followed was unlike any other: This F-16 was controlled by artificial intelligence, not a human pilot. And riding in the front seat was Air Force Secretary...

The wage settlement is one of the largest ever reached for U.S. poultry workers....

Hope Hicks, a former adviser to Donald Trump, took the stand Friday at the former president’s hush money trial and recounted how his 2016 campaign became embroiled in a political firestorm over a recording in which he boasted about grabbing women without their permission....

Among AARP survey findings: 61% of Americans 50 and up are worried they won’t have enough money for retirement. And only 21 percent of people have a retirement plan....

Mayelín Rodríguez Prado was arrested after uploading images to Facebook of a small demonstration in Nuevitas in August 2022...

Ukrainian forces took out more than 100 Russian soldiers with an ATACMS missile, per OSINT analysts....

Israel’s war in Gaza stokes European tensions, after clashes erupt between students and cops at American colleges....

UK’s top diplomat also pledges £3 billion of annual military help to Ukraine for ‘as long as it takes.’...

Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U.S. presidential election, according to a study published Thursday by the nonprofit Brookings Institution....

Human rights groups are calling for the release of a Saudi woman, who they say has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for supporting women’s rights and for the way she dressed....

The evidence can be found in the data, which shows higher unemployment for workers in business services and a lower one for people who work in manufacturing....

Medicaid expansion efforts fizzled and died Thursday in Republican-led Mississippi because top lawmakers could not agree on a final proposal to send to the House and Senate....

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it will spend $3 billion to help states and territories identify and replace lead water pipes....

The Suffolk County, Mass., district attorney called the case “one of the most complex, unusual and perplexing that this office has ever encountered.”...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has banned lab-grown meat, saying he will “save our beef” from the “global elite” and its “authoritarian plans”....

The family of a gay British-Mexican man held in Qatar for alleged drug offences has given further details of what they say was a “honeytrap” operation using the gay dating app, Grindr....

Russian and US troops have been operating out of the same military base in Niger for at least several weeks, a US defense official and another source familiar with the matter told CNN, putting the two militaries in close proximity to each other at a time of heightened tensions over the war in Ukraine and as the country’s...

NATO has issued a sharp warning over “hostile” Russian activity across Europe....

Residents of manufactured housing parks typically own their homes – but not the parks themselves, which can be incredibly lucrative. Now some residents are forming cooperatives, and taking control...

Philip Morris International has supported non-smoking programmes around the world ‘to advance its own interests’, say health professionals...

State supreme court had ruled that the near-total abortion ban could be enforced, unleashing unprecedented outrage...

A German government investigation, led by the Foreign Ministry, found that Russian hackers with state support targeted the Social Democratic Party in the governing coalition....

The widow of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Foundation are the 10th DW Freedom of Speech Award laureates....

European Commission warns BYD, SAIC and Geely that their lack of cooperation frees its hands to impose higher penalties, letters seen by POLITICO show....

Some 80 percent of Georgians want to join the EU, which begs the question of why the ruling party feels so secure....

The European Union will provide €1 billion in financial aid to Lebanon over three years to prop up the country’s economy and help prevent a surge in refugees leaving for Europe....

Viruses that cause mild sniffles in humans are devastating populations of chimpanzees and gorillas. In some ape communities, it’s a bigger killer than habitat loss or poaching...

Kyiv Independent’s Olga Rudenko is set on telling the truth in wartime, despite clumsy instances of state harassment...

Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, says his team is determined to retry case against the disgraced movie mogul...

Democrats pick up support of two Republicans to repeal law reinstated three weeks ago, with governor expected to ratify repeal...

Authorities described the student as a juvenile male but did not provide further identification or specifics pending an investigation...

Injured soldiers face social stigma … and their numbers have soared....

Thirty years after the end of apartheid, dozens of South Africans have set up a protest camp outside the Constitutional Court. They are demanding reparations for human rights abuses suffered under white minority rule....

The Philippines summoned a Chinese Embassy official to protest the “harassment of Philippine vessels” as tensions flare up in the South China Sea....

Florida’s six-week abortion ban has come into force, closing the door - for now - on the last abortion access point in the US South....

Workers, activists and others in Asian capitals took to the streets on Wednesday to mark May Day with protests over rising prices and governments’ labor polices and calls for greater labor rights....