Authorities last year made it illegal to encourage anyone to boycott elections or to spoil their ballots, with offenders facing up to three years in jail and a maximum fine of HK$200,000 ($25,000). After Hong Kong saw huge and sometimes violent dem...

The jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner has been moved to a penal colony in Russia, her legal team said Wednesday. A Russian court rejected her appeal of her nine-year sentence for drug possession last month.

The launch comes as the United States counted votes in the midterm elections for the House and Senate, which Seoul's spy agency had previously warned would be a possible moment for Kim Jong Un to conduct a long-expected nuclear test. Seoul's milita...

John Fetterman, the Democratic state lieutenant governor, flipped Pennsylvania's Senate seat, beating Mehmet Oz, a TV host and heart surgeon who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump.

The comb was found at the Tel Lachish site in 2017, but the letters were not noticed until earlier this year following further examination, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said in a statement. The artefact provides "direct evidence" of the use o...

John Fetterman, the Democratic state lieutenant governor, flipped Pennsylvania's Senate seat, beating Mehmet Oz, a TV host and heart surgeon who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump.  France 24 Kethevane Gorjestani tells us more.

Carly Morris was taken into custody on Monday and the whereabouts of the daughter, eight-year-old Tala, is unknown, said the Washington-based Freedom Initiative, which describes itself as advocating on behalf of people wrongfully detained in the Mid...

Voters casting ballots in Tuesday's pivotal midterms grappled with misleading claims about glitchy election machines and delayed results, the final crest of a wave of misinformation that's expected to linger long after the last votes are tallied.

"We might not be getting the big red wave that Republicans were claiming that they were going to win", France 24 Kethevane Gorjestani says.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis wins a second term in Florida by defeating Democratic challenger Charlie Crist in what was widely seen as a precursor to a DeSantis presidential run in 2024.

A GOP majority in the House would likely elevate Rep. Kevin McCarthy, a Bakersfield Republican who now serves as minority leader, to the speakership he has coveted for years.

Tedros, 57, hails from Tigray, the besieged northern region of Ethiopia gripped by fighting and misery for two years. Last week's ceasefire deal between Ethiopia's government and Tigrayan rebels raised hopes that the brutal conflict in Africa's sec...

Americans cast ballots in midterm elections that will determine whether President Joe Biden's Democrats keep control of the US Senate, as 35 of its 100 seats are up for grabs. "Abortion is a key issue" in Nevada, France 24 Eric Pape says.

Florida voters have given Republican Ron DeSantis a second term as the state's governor.

Ukraine has collated thousands of reports of its children being deported to Russia and wants their plight addressed at the G20 summit in Indonesia next week, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff late Tuesday. Read our live blo...