Sayed Ahmed AlWadaei, a prominent Bahraini rights campaigner exiled in Britain, said Saturday a Bahraini court had sentenced his wife to two months in jail in absentia this week and that his mother-in-law had begun a hunger strike in jail. AlWadaei, director of the Bahrain Institute for...

Ivorians voted for a new senate on Saturday in a poll likely to shore up President Alassane Ouattara's grip on power, amidst an opposition boycott, while doing little to relieve ethnic tensions lingering from a decade of crisis. The creation of the upper house, a provision of the new...

Several thousand people marched through the Croatian capital Saturday in protest against a European treaty designed to protect women. The demonstration gathered up to 10,000 people according to journalists' estimates and was held two days after conservative Prime Minister Andrej...

 Malaysian police have arrested seven men with links to the Daesh (ISIS) militant group who were planning attacks on non-Muslim places of worship and other targets, authorities said Saturday. The Muslim-majority country has been on high alert since gunmen allied with Daesh carried...