Paraguay's Senate on Friday approved a constitutional amendment lifting Paraguay's one-term rule for presidents. Put in place by Paraguay's 1992 Constitution following long-term dictatorship, the current rules limit the president to one five-year term. Current president...

Human rights group Reprieve has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for District of Columbia against the US government for allegedly placing them on a "kill list" to be targeted for...

On Friday, twenty-two members of the so-called Sunflower Movement were acquitted of charges related to their 2014 occupation of the Legislative Yuan. The activists were protesting plans to pass a trade deal with China....

The U.S. Senate on Thursday held its first hearing on Russian involvement in the 2016 election. Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice-Chairman Mark Warner of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence...

Israel's Security Cabinet voted unanimously on Thursday to approve the first settlement in the West Bank in more than 20 years. The settlement will be constructed near the Palestinian city of Nablus and is intended to...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has acknowledged receipt of a signed letter from Scotland First Minister Nicola Sturgeon formally demanding a second referendum on Scotland's independence from the UK. In her letter, Sturgeon expressed frustration...

A UK court of appeals declined on Thursday to allow a man with a terminal disease the right to seek his own death. Noel Conway has terminal motor neurone disease and is only expected to...

The Supreme Court of Venezuela on Wednesday essentially dissolved the opposition-controlled National Assembly, assuming all legislative powers. The court ruled that because the legislature had defied previous court rulings, all of its decisions...

Attorney General Edgar Veytia of the state of Nayarit, Mexico, has been arrested on charges of international narcotics trafficking conspiracy, according to court documents filed by federal officials on Tuesday. The gist of the grand jury indictment...

Legal counsel for detained reporter, Deniz Yucel, appeared before the Turkish Constitutional Court to request his release, his employer Die Welt said Wednesday. Yucel was detained in mid-February, and has been held by the Turkish...