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Protests continued on Tuesday outside an immigration detention center in New Jersey, where U.S. Senator Andy Kim stated he had been pepper-sprayed by federal agents the day before during a demonstration against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) outside the facility.

Child marriage seems to have been legally recognized for the first time by the Taliban in Afghanistan, as activists claim that "shameful" new laws make it nearly impossible for girls and young women to seek divorce against their husbands’ wishes.

A prominent Philippine politician wanted by the International Criminal Court was no longer seeking refuge in the Senate following what his wife described as an "escape," according to the Senate president on Thursday, a day after chaos broke out over his potential arrest.

Iranian authorities on Monday hanged a post-graduate student from an elite Tehran university on charges of espionage, the latest in a series of executions amid the conflict with the United States and Israel.

Iran executed three men after they were found guilty of participating in anti-government protests that shook the country in December and January, authorities announced on Monday.

As Romania’s top judge faces increasing public scrutiny over her alleged leniency toward organized crime, a new investigation has uncovered that she presided over the 2013 acquittal of a convicted robber while co-owning real estate with the man’s uncle.

Iran’s brutal regime is set to execute its first female protester following recent protests, one of an estimated 1,600 people sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic in the past year.

The Iranian regime executed over 1,600 people last year — reaching a three-decade high not witnessed since the end of the Islamic Republic’s war against Iraq in 1989.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel disclosed that his island nation is preparing for an attack from the US and stated that he is ready to die resisting President Trump.

In a court in Cologne, Germany, a former law firm executive sat and listened as his lawyers read a statement.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the University of Pennsylvania to provide records concerning Jewish employees on campus to a federal agency as part of an investigation into antisemitic discrimination, but stated that it did not have to disclose any employee’s affiliation with a specific group.

Casa de Pizarro is a grand palace overlooking Lima’s spacious main square that functions as the seat of Peru’s executive branch and the official residence of its president.

Costa Rica closed its embassy in Havana on Wednesday and instructed Cuba’s communist government to withdraw its diplomats from San José.

Donald Trump vowed to "take" Cuba on Monday as a US oil embargo left the island without power, deepened shortages, and fueled growing anti-government protests.

Leigh Kunkel did not notice the federal agent aiming a pepper ball gun at her face from approximately twenty feet away.

As they bomb Iran, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are urging its people to rise up against the dictatorial regime, which is shaken but still standing. Iranian authorities possess a sophisticated tool for monitoring the population: a powerful Russian facial recognition software — acquired in complete secrecy.

Israel’s military is aiming at the Iranian police state that severely crushed protests and resulted in the deaths of thousands, hoping to pave the way for a popular uprising to topple the Islamic government.

Six months after protests fueled by anger over deep-rooted corruption brought down Nepal’s elected government, political parties are now campaigning for the March 5 general elections with a common message: each claims to be the best choice to combat graft.

Members of Iran’s ruling elite have been accused of blatant hypocrisy for allegedly using the state’s wealth to finance their adult children’s lives in the West, while overseeing increasing economic hardship and repression in their own country.

The administration of President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the University of California system, accusing it of discrimination against Jewish and Israeli employees at UCLA, which the Justice Department referred to as an antisemitic hostile work environment.

Tehran has rejected the US president’s statements during the State of the Union address regarding its missile and nuclear programs, as the Geneva talks are set to resume under military pressure.

Amirhossein Saedi’s father had advised him to remain at home. The protests spreading across Iran were becoming increasingly perilous by the day, and the 19-year-old computer science student was still recuperating from an illness.