Africa has increased the number of women in parliament but still looks set to miss a global goal of gender parity in politics ...

The junta that ousted Burma’s last freely elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is now seeking to hold sham polls to entrench its ...

Current world news includes the US military's withdrawal from NATO's eastern flank, deadly police operations in Brazil, ...

A military coup has unfolded in Madagascar, according to an Associated Press report that also indicates the country's parliament voted to impeach President Andry Rajoelina, who recently fled the ...

The target of today’s strongmen is technocratic administration—what the author calls the “Davos consensus”—which is ...

Thousands of years ago, the fertile lands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers may have been the site of the Garden of ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s latest political crisis eased — for now — when Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survived two consecutive no-confidence votes on Thursday, averting another government collapse and ...