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Rights group say arrest of Setalvad, who campaigned for the 2002 Gujarat riot victims, will have a 'chilling effect'.

Energy minister says officials will visit Moscow to seek cheap oil imports as Sri Lanka battles a fuel crisis.

The first of a four-part series takes a deep dive into the most contentious issues dividing France.

US President Joe Biden said the leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations will announce the ban during the G7 summit.

The Stream looks at Fault Lines’ ’51 Years Behind Bars’ and asks if the country can build a more humane justice system.

Despite overwhelming evidence that asylum seekers have been brutally pushed back from Greek waters, authorities deny it.

Ukraine's state emergency services are working to extract trapped people from a nine-story building.

The move comes a day after the energy minister said there would be an indefinite delay in getting new shipments of oil.

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 123rd day, we take a look at the main developments.

Cryptocurrency has no legitimate value in the real world and needs to be eradicated.

But we cannot let them. We must fight to protect the rights and the lives of one another and to shield the vulnerable.

At least five people wounded after a residential building in the capital was targeted as G7 summit begins.

Security measures eased amid talks with protest leaders and an opposition-led move to remove the president from office.

The new law is the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades and follows a spate of mass shootings in the US.

Counterterrorism forces in Sulaimaniyah province confirmed there had been no casualties or damage to the gas complex.

Putin has several times referred to nuclear weapons since his country invaded Ukraine on February.

Fall of city after weeks of street fighting transforms the battlefield in the east of Ukraine to Moscow's advantage.

More than 200 Amhara people were killed in the Oromia region last weekend.

The summit agenda includes Russia's war on Ukraine, climate change, energy and a looming food security crisis.

Taliban authorities have promised to not interfere with aid to victims, saying organisations can distribute themselves.

Crowds featured both abortion opponents and abortion rights supporters after controversial top court decision.

Eighteen migrants died after attempting to scale the fence surrounding Spain's territory of Melilla in North Africa.

Talks between the two leaders focused on ties between Qatar and Egypt, as well as regional and global topics.

The law is the most impactful firearms measure produced by Congress since the enactment of assault weapons ban in 1993.

Indirect talks between Iran and US set to resume after EU foreign policy chief visits Tehran to resolve the impasse.

China is the last major economy committed to a zero-COVID strategy, with restrictions aimed at stamping out infections.

Pakistan and Qatar join other aid agencies in efforts to help people desperate for food, shelter and drinking water.

Mohammad Abdallah Hamed, 16, died in Israeli custody after being shot near the town of Silwad, Palestinian sources said.

Four months since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we look at how Russian media is spinning a new war narrative.

Restitution and return are only a start. Without apology, the poison remains in the system and continues to fester.

Severodonetsk mayor says the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the strategic front-line city is under way.

We look at what’s behind the rising cost of living and the action being taken by policymakers.

A new retrospective shows how sound artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan uses audio-visual techniques to bridge art and politics.

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 122nd day, we take a look at the main developments.

The whole US system of patriarchal capitalism must indeed be aborted.

Police say they are treating the deadly shootings as an 'act of terrorism', as organisers cancel the Pride parade.

Rudimentary construction of homes in rocky, unpaved mountains said to be key factors in severity of destruction.

Company has been widely blamed for surge in underage vaping, but recent survey shows a drop in teen vaping rate in US.

Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara and Maykel Castillo receive five- and nine-year terms, respectively, Cuban prosecutor says.

Social media posts falsely claimed to show anti-Russian stickers placed around former Auschwitz death camp in Poland.

Sheikh Tamim's visit comes less than two months after his government announced it would invest $5bn in Egypt.

The bill is seen as a modest measure and a compromise amid deep, partisan divides on gun control among US legislators.

Civilians ordered to leave two large 'military interest zones' covering about 13,000sq km in north and southeast.

Switzerland is a global hub for metals with the country's refineries handling about two-thirds of the world's gold.

The ruling removes federal protections for abortion, sending questions of legality to individual US states.

Thousands of Indigenous people have joined national strike in Quito to demand government action on rising costs.

US Supreme Court ruling described as 'huge blow' to American women's reproductive rights and gender equality.

The decision overturned the landmark Roe v Wade ruling and is expected to lead to abortion bans in half the 50 states.