A protester was critically wounded after Hong Kong police opened fire on protesters in the semi-autonomous region under China’s rule on Tuesday during the ongoing anti-government protests, local media reported.  Demonstrations started early Tuesday while China was marking its...

Iranian courts have sentenced one person to death for spying for the CIA and jailed two others for 10 years for the same crime, as well as imprisoning a fourth person for 10 years for spying for Britain, the judiciary said on Tuesday. The verdicts come amid spiralling tensions between...

An Iranian court sentenced the brother of President Hassan Rouhani to five years in prison, a judiciary spokesman was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the semi-official Fars news. In May, Hossein Fereydoun was sentenced to an unspecified jail term in a corruption case that the president’s...

The Treasury Department placed sanction on multiple Russian individuals Monday for alleged attempts to influence the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.  Among them are Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the Russian financier behind the Internet Research Agency, and six employees. The firm is described...