Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched Friday in the center of Algiers in the first significant test of the months-old protest movement since the government called an election for December. They were marching despite several high profile arrests of opposition activists over the past...

Twitter said Friday it shut down thousands of accounts worldwide for spreading misinformation, including some artificially amplifying pro-Saudi messaging as part of a regional propaganda war. The move affected pro-Saudi accounts coming from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates directed at...

Amnesty International on Friday accused Hong Kong police of using excessive force against pro-democracy protesters, in some cases amounting to torture, allegations that were rejected by a commanding officer. In a report based on interviews with nearly two dozen activists, most of whom were...

Yemen's Huthi rebels accused Saudi Arabia and its allies on Friday of endangering a fragile truce around Hodeida with strikes on four rebel targets north of the key aid port. "The intensive raids on Hodeida are a serious escalation that could torpedo the Sweden agreement," one of the...