Major human rights wins of 2025
Though 2025 was a year of flagrant human rights abuses across the globe, there were also many positive developments....
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Though 2025 was a year of flagrant human rights abuses across the globe, there were also many positive developments....
Protests sparked by economic hardship have spread across Iran, in the biggest wave of dissent in three years....
Hundreds of protesters have been killed in demonstrations over the past two weeks, according to rights groups and local sources in Iran, FRANCE 24 Observers journalist Ershad Alijani reported, noting ...
Protests sparked by economic hardship have spread across Iran, in the biggest wave of dissent in three years....
Right-wing Trump supporters in Central and Southeastern Europe have operated in a legal gray area for years. After the US's attack on Venezuela, there's a growing awareness that Trump could pose a thr...
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Social Security tax rules will change in 2026. Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Social Security tax rules will change in 2026 at the state and federal level. West Virginia will stop taxing Social Security be...
Iran executed at least 1,500 people last year, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group said on Thursday, in what it called an “unprecedented” hike in the use of capital punishment. “It is very alarmi...
Malaysia on Thursday moved to bring some of the world’s biggest social media and messaging platforms under its licensing regime, closing a year-long gap in which several tech giants had operated witho...
A majority of EU member states have voted in favor the long-awaited Mercosur trade agreement with South American countries. Farmers in a number of member states have protested the deal....
The decisive electoral victory for Mamadi Doumbouya has ended Guinea's post-coup transition to civilian rule. Can the elected president turn promises into progress for a nation rich in resources yet p...
As usual, 2025 was a year of deep congressional dysfunction in the US. But state legislatures were passing laws that govern everything from AI to social media to the right to repair. Many of these law...
Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were taken from their home in Venezuela's capital city Caracas in a dramatic nighttime US military operation....
The interior minister says he will "hit back" at left-wing extremists suspected of having caused the Berlin blackout. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is heading for India. DW has more....
In an effort to combat childhood obesity, the United Kingdom has banned daytime TV and online ads that promote junk food. The health ministry says this could recede by 20,000 the number of children li...
Relatives and friends of political prisoners held vigils outside several Venezuelan prisons as they are awaiting the release of detainees following pressure from the United States....
President Trump's plans for wide-scale celebrations to commemorate the nation's 250th birthday got underway on New Year's Eve with the illumination of the Washington Monument on the National Mall....
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Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy said he would meet with his US counterpart soon to advance peace talks to end Russia's ongoing all-out war, nearing its four-year mark....
Washington and Bogotá have enjoyed security cooperation for decades but ties have deteriorated since Trump began his second term last January....