Iran is likely to expand its cyber espionage activities as its relations with Western powers worsen, the European Union digital security agency said Monday. Iranian hackers are behind several cyber-attacks and online disinformation campaigns in recent years as the country tries to...

The longtime head of the world's Yazidis, a minority whose Iraqi community was ferociously targeted by Daesh (ISIS), has died in Germany after a long illness, officials said Monday. Prince Tahseen Said Ali died in the KRH Siloah hospital in Hanover at the age of 85, according to the...

Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced on Monday to four and a half years in prison for state subversion, sealing the fate of another attorney swept up in a 2015 crackdown. Wang, 42, who defended political activists and victims of land seizures, disappeared in...

Panama rolled out the red carpet for Pope Francis for World Youth Day celebrations, but here and across Latin America the Catholic Church is losing ground to a growing evangelical movement. In the gritty barrio of El Chorrillo, a kilometer (half-mile) of dense streets from where Francis...