Ken Burns visits Criterion Closet, where he discusses the 'tragedy' that led to his becoming a filmmaker. Watch here.

The coroner’s inquest into the death of republican Thomas Ashe has delivered a damning verdict on the conduct of Dublin ...

A TN death row prisoner has declared a hunger strike, saying he is protesting issues with medical care, food quality and ...

Navalny battled for an alternative to Putin’s regime – and paid the ultimate price. The Kremlin has made sure there cannot be ...

A prominent opposition figure in Uganda who is on trial in a military tribunal has begun a hunger strike, his wife said, two ...

Laila Soueif has not eaten for 134 days as she campaigns for the release of her pro-democracy activist son from jail in Egypt ...

Danilo Dolci was born in Friuli, but called Trappeto, Sicily, home. Here, he became a champion for people’s rights.

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, ...

LONDON (Morning Star News) – Two Christian converts from Islam who were locked in an Egyptian prison and held for three years ...

Members of the Ukrainian Association of Florida said the protest was spurred by Netrebko's refusal to condemn Putin for the war in Ukraine ...

The petition sheds light on Alaa Abdel Fattah's mother's condition, who has been on hunger strike for over 120 days.