Almost 40 religious leaders, including Pope Francis, have called on the international community to do more to fight climate change, in an appeal signed on Monday ahead of this year’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.

A data leak dubbed the Pandora Papers has revealed that powerful billionaires as well as current and former world leaders have been affiliated with companies that use offshore tax havens.

In the local elections in the South Caucasus republic of Georgia, which were overshadowed by a political crisis, the ruling party Georgian Dream has won, according to official figures.

Qataris headed to the polls on Saturday to vote in the first-ever elections for the consultative parliament in the Gulf country.

German federal prosecutors said Friday they were investigating a Turkish national on suspicion of spying on dissidents for Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), Agence France-Presse reported.

The judges of the Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal, on Friday announced their verdict on recent human rights violations in Turkey, saying that the torture and abductions perpetrated by Turkish state officials since July 2016 could amount...

The number of weekly Covid-19 cases and deaths globally continued to decline in the past week, the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday.

A number of Afghan women again took to the streets of Kabul on Sunday to demand the right to work and to study against an increasingly bleak backdrop of Taliban Islamist authoritarianism.