December 2025 saw a whirlwind of events in the health corridors of Kenya. On December 4, Kenya signed a landmark five-year aid deal with the United States: a $2.5 billion Health Cooperation ...

Armies are equipped and trained to vanquish enemies. If turned inward, they can easily become an instrument of tyranny.' —Elizabeth Goitein, Senior Director for Liberty & National Security, ...

The metaverse—an immersive, persistent, and networked virtual environment first conceptualized in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1992)—integrates Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and ...

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Republican congressman may bring suit to challenge an Illinois mail-in ballot law ...

A UN expert warned on Thursday that excessive and unlawful use of lethal force by US security forces both internationally and domestically is 'gravely concerning.' The report came from Morris ...

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance rejected a sex discrimination challenge to the prison dress code on Tuesday. Judge Russell Coleman held that male and female prisoners face incomparable ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday warned that he may invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy troops in Minnesota to quell the protests and clashes over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

Iran’s protest wave is no longer defined only by street clashes. It has entered a phase in which the state governs visibility ...

On Wednesday, the FBI searched the home and electronic devices of a Washington Post reporter and seized her phone, Garmin watch, and two laptops, one of which belongs to the newspaper. According to ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Syrian authorities to seek accountability for abuses committed during clashes between Syrian government forces and local Bedouin and Druze groups in the Sweida ...

Hundreds of thousands of older Hungarians are being forced to choose between food, medicine, and heat as inadequate pensions fail to keep pace with rising costs, Human Rights Watch said in a new ...

Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was charged on Wednesday for allegedly offering bribes to members of the Ukrainian parliament. On Tuesday, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of ...