Trump has refused to rule out military force to seize the Panama Canal, which the United States handed over at the end of 1999, saying that China has exerted too much control through its investment in ...

A rebel outfit that easily dispatches the national army, doing so with lightning speed, must surely have external benefactors doing the propping and supplying the military wherewithal ...

Marianny Sánchez Núñez, Paula Barrios, Catalina Martínez Coral and Ana Vera are some of the visible faces of the international movement against child pregnancy. They have been involved in litigation ...

While North Korea is widely acknowledged as one of the world's most constraining dictatorships, there is a country that has been dubbed "Africa's North Korea".

Syria's new interim government is widely supported. But observers remain cautious over details for the country's democratic future. Is the political program inclusive enough to put Syria's feet back ...

Six-year-old Hassan Abed Raboh lives with an excruciating bladder condition that 25 operations at Gaza hospitals could not ...

The case is one of the first direct challenges to shield laws enacted in blue states that protect providers who prescribe abortion pills to out-of-state patients.

In Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico, some residents say drug-fueled violence has gotten so bad that they would welcome U.S.

North Carolina’s highest court has upheld a law that gave adult victims of child sexual abuse two additional years to seek ...

Trump administration officials are putting a pause on most federal government websites as of 5 p.m. ET on Friday, a source ...

The chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy and Texas Tech professor thinks that ‘no person nor any government’ can stop ...

President Donald Trump’s flirtation with taking Greenland is not a new American pastime. For more than a century, United States officials have been eager to gain access to the island’s vast deposits ...