Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced that the Scandinavian country will hold a parliamentary election on March 24.

Israel’s parliament has passed a preliminary reading of a bill that would put the country’s ultra-Orthodox chief rabbinate in charge of the entire Western Wall in Jerusalem, raising fears among reform Jews that mixed-gender prayer at the site will soon…

Ugandan police have detained two women in the northwest of the country after neighbors reported them for same-sex activity, in a rare arrest linked to a 2023 anti-LGBTQ law.

A court in Bangladesh’s capital has ordered authorities to request that Interpol issue a red notice for the arrest of a British lawmaker on charges of corruption in a private real estate project.

Police in Kenya say they arrested a man named in the alleged scheme that duped Kenyans with promises of skilled work in Russia that saw them end up on the front lines of the fighting in Ukraine.

South Korea has relaunched a fact-finding commission into its past human rights violations, with a key focus on the extensive fraud and malfeasance that corrupted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program.

A Hong Kong court has sentenced the father of a U.S.-based activist to eight months in prison in the first case brought against the relative of a pro-democracy activist wanted by the city’s authorities under a national security law.

A Hong Kong appellate court on Thursday quashed onetime media magnate Jimmy Lai’s fraud convictions linked to lease violations, in a rare victory in the prominent activist’s legal battles.

Fighting has resumed in South Sudan eight years after a fragile peace was agreed.

Kim Jong Un says North Korea can completely destroy South Korea if it feels threatened, and he refuses to engage with Seoul.