To address the challenge of violence against women, countries have enacted more than 1,500 laws. As cultural norms shift, ...

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The US is on track to record the lowest level of mass killings, including deadly shootings, in two decades. Causes of ...

The government in Beirut has committed itself to disarming Hezbollah and exercising a monopoly over the use of force in ...

Israel and Hamas could begin the next phase of the ceasefire as soon as the end of the month, said Israeli Prime Minister ...

Director Celia Aniskovich’s new documentary, “The Merchants of Joy,” explores the tree-selling families that turn New York’s ...

As U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators continue talks aimed at ending the war, Russia conducted a large drone and missile attack.

With military leaders in the spotlight over drug boat attacks, how do troops know when to follow orders and when to push back ...

For nearly a century, U.S. Supreme Court precedent has restricted the president’s ability to fire heads of independent ...

Bipartisan inquiries are emerging amid reports that the U.S. military fired twice on a suspected drug boat, killing survivors ...

An industrious leader is typically considered a positive. But in Japan – a country that has its own word for “death from ...