FILE - California Governor Gavin Newsom, shown here at the San Diego Zoo on Aug. 8, 2024, signed a law on Sept. 20, 2024, ...

Leaf peeping — the act of traveling to witness nature's annual kaleidoscope — contributes billions of dollars to the economy ...

South Sudan has battled flooding, hunger and violence, while its leaders have appeared reluctant to risk going to the polls ...

Six years after a teenage Greta Thunberg walked out of school in a solitary climate protest outside of the Swedish parliament ...

Czechs went to the polls on Friday in a two-day vote for a third of the seats in Parliament's upper house, which is the ...

Striking junior doctors in India's West Bengal state agreed to resume essential services, in a partial resumption of medical ...

Despite lower inflation, Nigeria’s currency has weakened from 1,200 to 1,600 to the dollar, and gasoline prices have soared ...

Rights advocates in India are looking to a Supreme Court hearing October 1 in hopes of a permanent ban on so-called bulldozer ...

From workers in sprawling tea plantations in the north to big cities in the south, millions of Sri Lankans cast ballots ...

Many fear the events are the prelude to an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shiite group that is ...

Amid a reported surge in cross-border repression across Southeast Asia, rights advocates say Thailand is making promising but ...

A prominent Southeast Asian rights group said Friday that Myanmar’s ruling State Administration Council reportedly intends to ...