Trans people in India can now apply to have their gender identity legally recognised online through a new government portal. The portal, launched on Wednesday (25 November) by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE), will allow trans people to have their gender identity certified by the district magistrate without visiting government offices.

The federal government is back in court, arguing for its unilateral right to kill US citizens. Two journalists who had appeared to have been mistakenly targeted by drone strikes sued the government in 2017, seeking an injunction forbidding their own...

Speculation kicked off after someone moved the huge sum on Tuesday, and now we know who it was: the U.S. government.

The US is attempting to imprison one of its critics, Julian Assange, by claiming a global right to prosecute any journalist in the world. If that prosecution succeeds, it would be a severe blow not just to press freedom, but to our very right to oppose imperialism and empire.

Germany's foreign minister has said that Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn should not be conducting politics from the European country, where he spends much of his time.

China has started one of the biggest real-world trials for its digital currency as it pushes closer toward creating a cashless future.

unredacted US diplomatic cables came into the public domain following the publication of a passcode in a book by Guardian journalists in February 2011 and were published by Cryptome.

Peru's Congress voted against removing President Martín Vizcarra in an impeachment trial on Friday, quelling political tensions in the copper giant in the midst of an economic recession brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.

Malaysia is a country that I know well, and whose political system I have studied closely for 15 years. It is also not a democracy. Malaysia has a multiparty parliamentary system of government, but the same coalition of parties has been in power for six decades, and has never lost a general election.

The head of security at TikTok's Beijing-based parent company ByteDance has said it's impossible for the Chinese government to get their hands on user data from the app — contrary to the Trump administration's assertions.

A former Apple software engineer who worked on the iPod claims that the smartphone giant made a “top secret” music player for the US government. David Shayer, who worked for the company for 18 years, wrote that in 2005 the director of iPod Software told him of a “special assignment” with “two engineers from the US Department of Energy [to] build a special iPod.”

Zimbabwe agreed on Wednesday to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated by the government to resettle black families, moving a step closer to resolving one the most divisive policies of the Robert Mugabe era.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Maria Kolesnikova and Veronika Tsepkalo challenge president’s 25-year rule

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday indicted two Chinese nationals over their role in what the agency called a decade-long cyber espionage campaign that targeted defense contractors, COVID researchers and hundreds of other victims worldwide.

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.

457b plans are a great benefit for employees, but there are several aspects of the deferred compensation plan you need to know!

The paid parental leave scheme in New Zealand is extending from 22 weeks to 26 weeks, taking New Zealand up to a full six months of leave for new parents. The maximum weekly payment is also increasing by $20 per week.

Protests and unrest are ongoing in Hong Kong since 2019, amid concerns among Hongkongers that Hong Kong’s autonomy is being eroded, as well as civil and political rights are being undermined. The most recent protests have been triggered by a decision of the National People’s Congress —the legislature of the People’s Republic of China— to draft a new security law that is set to be enforced on Hong Kong —directly from Beijing or via an ad-hoc piece of legislation passed by the Hong Kong legislature— opening the door to the implementation of mainland Chinese institutions of security and control in Hong Kong.

On May 30, according to court documents, the police department in Page, Ariz., got a tip from someone described only as a “Concerned Citizen.” A young man named Loren Reed had set up a private Facebook chat group and was encouraging people to riot at the county courthouse. The police department used an undercover Facebook account to message Reed. “I wanna burn down the courthouse,” Reed wrote to the undercover officers, before adding them to that chat.

Twitter, Reddit, and Internet Association filed an amicus brief late yesterday in support of a lawsuit filed last year by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the Brennan Center for Justice, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP on behalf of plaintiffs Doc Society and International Documentary Association, challenging rules that require nearly all visa applicants to register their social media handles with the U.S. government and connected policies permitting the retention and dissemination of that information.