State prosecutors in Thailand announced Thursday that they don’t intend to press charges against an American academic arrested for royal defamation, an offense punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The arrest last month of Paul Chambers, a political science lecturer at Naresuan University in the northern province of…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that defeating Israel’s enemies is more important than securing the release of…
The world’s oldest person, Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, has died at age 116, her order announced on Wednesday. The…
British comedian and actor Russell Brand arrived at court on Friday after he was charged last month with rape…
The pontificate of Pope Francis profoundly shook up the Catholic Church. His restless 12-year-papacy, with its focus on a…
The United States and Ukraine have signed an “economic partnership agreement” that will give Washington access to Kyiv’s rare…
Kenya’s police have said the fatal shooting of a lawmaker by a gunman aboard a motorcycle in the capital…
China restated its case that Covid-19 may have originated in the United States in a white paper on its…