Fundamental Rights / Civil Liberties

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's elections chief on Tuesday warned that the South American country could face a similar assault as...

By Laila Bassam and Timour Azhari (Reuters) -Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies have lost their majority in Lebanon's parliament in...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Saudi ambassador to Lebanon took an apparent swipe at Hezbollah on Twitter on Tuesday after official...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain is set to become the first European country to introduce paid leave for women who suffer...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday he was confident that Turkey would support Finland and Sweden...

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's state television on Tuesday showed what it described as details of the arrest...

LONDON (Reuters) -Measures taken in North Korea to fight the first reported COVID-19 outbreak could have "devastating" consequences for human...

LONDON (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office's spokesperson on Tuesday urged Iran to halt the imminent execution of Swedish-Iranian...

(Reuters) - Hezbollah and allies who support its armed presence have lost the parliamentary majority they held since 2018 in...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A dozen independent freshmen MPs won seats in Lebanon's parliament, official results showed on Tuesday, in a...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The number of people officially listed as disappeared in Mexico has risen to more than 100,000,...

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Commissions in charge of fine-tuning a draft of Chile's new constitution and mapping out the transition from...

By Giulia Paravicini and Katharine Houreld ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI (Reuters) -Authorities in Ethiopia's war-shattered Tigray region are forcing young people to...

OSLO/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Norway, Denmark and Iceland in a joint statement on Monday said they stand ready to support NATO...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's Social Democrat minority government on Monday took the formal decision to apply for NATO membership, following...

(Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Monday urged other members of a Russian-dominated military alliance to stand united, and...

By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) -Former Somali leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud won the presidency again in voting by parliamentarians on...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban lawmakers on Sunday approved a new penal code for the country that is being critiqued by...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Thirty-six aspirants are competing in Somalia's long-delayed presidential election on Sunday, to be decided by parliament in...

By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss voters on Sunday backed proposals to make global TV streaming services such as Netflix...