Gagarin’s history-making flight | 60 years on

China began implementing its new, so-called "Ethnic Unity Law" on July 1. Western governments have raised concerns over how Beijing could use the law to forcibly assimilate ethnic minorities and to prosecute...

Is Russia preparing to launch a new offensive in northern Ukraine? Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, says Kyiv is preparing for the possibility of a Russian attack from the Bryansk region. But he...

Aceh allows up to 100 lashes for morality offenses including adultery, gambling and gay sex. The region was granted permission to enforce religious law in the 2000s in a deal to end a separatist war. The local Sharia...