Iran’s central bank began distributing a 5,000,000-rial “Iran-cheque” on Sunday, describing it as a step to “facilitate the ...

By passing this referendum, Bangladesh is likely to set another precedent for disregarding the Constitution in times of ...

Nature provides essential inputs to the economy through ecosystem services. In Asia and the Pacific, accelerating biodiversity loss is eroding these services, increasing vulnerability to shocks, and ...

Past movements against repressive regimes were met with violence and repression, but gradually concessions were secured.

President Xi Jinping mobilized the government to impose strict ideological conformity and loyalty to him and the Chinese ...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in 2002 under the Rome Statute to prosecute the most serious ...

In 2025, the North Korean government increased surveillance, information controls, and restrictions on market activity ...

Public protest is a core feature of democratic governance. From the labor uprisings of the Gilded Age through the Civil ...

Signs are multiplying that Ethiopia is entering a perilous turn. Political and armed factions in the Ogaden “Western Somalia” have announced their merger into a single entity under the name Somali ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for his first official visit, meeting Prince ...

Canadian thinker Jordan Peterson has argued that much of the Muslim-majority world remains trapped in what he bluntly describes as “authoritarian hellholes,” estimating that around 40 of roughly 50 ...