Will pressuring Sudan make a difference?: With more than 100 protesters killed in the past week, international pressure is growing on Sudan's military faction to compromise with its opponents. Ethiopia is leading mediation efforts to end the standoff. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is in Khartoum,...

When you look at a country that's had 12 coups since 1932, along with another seven attempted ones, well, there's clearly something of a love-hate relationship with democracy. And so it is in Thailand, which had an election in March, the first since the 2014 coup, and now has a newly-confirmed...

Quiet, picturesque New Zealand was the last place most people expected to see a massacre. "This is not us," the country grieved en masse after the Christchurch killings. But as the dust settles on a mass shooting that saw 51 Muslims shot and killed as they prayed, community leaders, survivors...