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Byline: Shibani Mahtani PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Earlier this year, the Cambodian government brought the full diplomatic weight of the state down on a seemingly slight target: a 36-year-old maid [...]

Mech Dara spent three weeks in detention after he was charged for posts he made online. He still faces a charge of ''incitement to provoke social chaos.'' A prominent Cambodian [...]

The charge of incitement came after the United States punished a tycoon for what it said was his role in the scam compounds. The authorities in Cambodia brought an incitement [...]

The environmental group, which is being sued by the pipeline company in North Dakota, threatened to use new European rules to try to limit potential damages. The News Greenpeace recently [...]

Byline: ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN, RICHER LINDSAY WHITEHURST; ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- With Donald Trump listening intently in the courtroom, federal appeals court judges in Washington expressed deep skepticism Tuesday [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake The effort to get Donald Trump removed from the 2024 ballot over Jan. 6 has thus far failed to achieve its stated objective. But late Friday, it [...]

The ruling was a step toward allowing prosecutors to introduce evidence at trial that members of the mob that stormed the Capitol believed they were acting at Donald Trump's instruction. [...]

Byline: Loveday Morris NAZARETH, Israel - The 21-year-old computer science student was beamed into the small wood-paneled courtroom from jail via video link. She had dark circles under her eyes [...]

Huang Xueqin, the journalist, and Wang Jianbing, a labor activist, have been accused of inciting subversion as the authorities expand a campaign to quash dissent. After two years in detention, [...]

Byline: Regine Cabato and Rebecca Tan MANILA - Social media giant Meta's Oversight Board called Thursday for the immediate suspension of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's Facebook and Instagram accounts [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon RIGA, Latvia - Russia's most prominent opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was put on trial Monday on extremism charges that could result in his existing prison sentences extended [...]

Sofia Sapega was detained last year when the jet she was on was forced to land in Minsk. The Belarusian president has pardoned a Russian woman who was arrested along [...]

The activist Yang Maodong said he had only wanted China to ''fully realize authentic freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law.'' A court in southern China has sentenced one [...]

Byline: COLIN FREEZE, MIKE HAGER TORONTO -- The man charged with abetting two people's suicides while running an international mail-order business dispensing a legal - yet lethal - preservative was [...]

Byline: ALANNA SMITH; Staff Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she will no longer answer questions on allegations that she interfered in unresolved criminal cases after a recording surfaced showing she [...]

Byline: DEAN BENNETT; THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON -- A phone call between Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and a Calgary pastor where they discussed his criminal trial raises questions about whether [...]

Byline: DEAN BENNETT; THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON -- Alberta's deputy premier says it was appropriate for Premier Danielle Smith to phone up a pastor and discuss his coming criminal trial [...]

The family of a student killed in terrorist attacks challenged a 1996 law that gives websites immunity for suits based on their users' posts. WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed [...]

Byline: María Luisa Paúl With her hair pulled up with a red bandanna, a 72-year-old woman carefully shapes round blobs of dough while making arepas, a Venezuelan food staple typically [...]

Ðric Zemmour, a pundit whose presidential run has upended French politics, had called unaccompanied migrant children ''murderers'' and ''rapists'' on television. PARIS -- Ðric Zemmour, the anti-immigrant far-right pundit who [...]

Byline: Rick Noack PARIS - Far-right French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour was found guilty of inciting racial hatred and fined $11,400 on Monday, adding another obstacle to a bid that [...]

Lawyers argued that the cases against the former president should be allowed to go forward because he inflamed a mob and failed to stop the violence it wrought. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Byline: Spencer S. Hsu WASHINGTON - Lawyers for former president Donald Trump, his attorney Rudy Giuliani and political ally Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., urged a federal judge Monday afternoon to [...]

Byline: Teri Kanefield In a speech last week about the federal investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, Attorney General Merrick Garland laid down a marker that [...]

Byline: Timothy Bella WASHINGTON - A U.S. Capitol Police officer filed a lawsuit against former president Donald Trump on the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, accusing Trump of [...]

Byline: Emily Davies Another U.S. Capitol Police officer has sued Donald Trump, saying the former president inflicted 'physical and emotional injuries' on him by inciting the Jan. 6 riot. Attorneys [...]

This appears in The Washington Post. - - - As the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics approach, the host nation continues to display its true colors. The latest evidence that the [...]

The activist Sergei Tikhanovsky planned to challenge the country's authoritarian leader, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, in a presidential election last year. He was arrested before the vote and his wife stepped [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon MOSCOW - A Belarusian court convicted popular blogger and leading opposition figure Sergei Tikhanovsky of inciting mass unrest and social hatred and sentenced him to 18 years [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon MOSCOW - A Belarusian court convicted popular blogger and leading opposition figure Sergei Tikhanovsky of inciting riots and other charges and sentenced him to 18 years in [...]

Byline: JAMES GRIFFITHS, Staff HONG KONG -- Lead A court in Myanmar has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's de facto leader - deposed in a February coup - [...]

Byline: Shibani Mahtani A Myanmar court on Monday found ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of charges including inciting public unrest and sentenced her to four years in prison [...]

Byline: Shibani Mahtani A Myanmar court on Monday found ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of charges including inciting public unrest and sentenced her to four years in prison [...]

The ousted civilian leader is facing a series of rulings that could keep her locked up for the rest of her life. A judge in Myanmar on Tuesday delayed the [...]

Byline: ASSOCIATED PRESS Lead A trial began Monday for Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai and seven other pro-democracy activists charged over their roles in an unauthorized Tiananmen vigil last [...]