A court in Bangladesh opened a murder investigation into ousted ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina and six top figures in her administration on Tuesday over the police killing of a man …
The family of Myanmar’s ousted former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has had no contact with the Nobel Peace Prize winner since her imprisonment around three years ago, according to …
“She is much more of a mainstream leftist politician” and likely to be “less ideological” than the outgoing president, she added. Claudia Sheinbaum poses for a selfie with a supporter. …
As Mzansi gets ready to vote, we wanted to celebrate the exceptional facts about South Africa you didn’t know. So, when you’re in that long queue tomorrow, deciding how to …
A labor court in Bangladesh’s capital Monday sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to six months in jail for violating the country’s labor laws. Yunus, who pioneered the use …
In 2019, he won the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the top human rights award of the European Parliament. He was also nominated by US lawmakers for the Nobel …
The children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf on Sunday, reading out a speech she’d written behind bars in Tehran’s notorious Evin …
“I am a Middle Eastern woman, and come from a region which, despite its rich civilisation, is now trapped amid war, the fire of terrorism, and extremism,” she said in …
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said on Tuesday that Taliban rule in Afghanistan has made “girlhood illegal”, as she called for gender apartheid to be made a crime against …
Congolese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Denis Mukwege kicked off his campaign for president in next month’s election on Saturday, promising to tackle corruption and the violent conflict ravaging communities in …