“Comment vous appelez-vous?” asked an older gentleman to a member of the audience after working his way down an aisle of Zellerbach Hall on Oct. 21, a microphone in his hand, jazz playing softly ...

(Nairobi) – Two human rights defenders who held a news conference to criticize the Democratic Republic of Congo’s “state of siege” in eastern provinces have been held without charge since August 1, ...

BESLAN, RUSSIA—Nearly a year after the deadly siege at School No. 1 in this North Ossetian town that killed more than 300 people—most of them children—a trial is under way of the sole hostage taker ...

A former army commander told Brazil's Supreme Court Monday he had attended a meeting with Jair Bolsonaro where a "state of siege" was discussed as a possible means of overturning the far-right ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom used his written State of the State address Tuesday to cast California as a bulwark against a menacing Trump administration he accused of dismantling public services, flouting the ...

Congo's president said he will gradually ease the state of military rule in the conflict-riddled east and lift some restrictions imposed more than two years ago. Speaking to the nation Thursday, ...

More than 620,000 men died in the Civil War, and nearly as much ink as blood has been spilled trying to explain why and how Americans killed each other in such obscene numbers. Even the most ...