Detained

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the release of Americans detained in Russia at 12 p.m. ET on Aug. 1.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke in Washington Tuesday at an event on hostage diplomacy. Mr. Blinken ...

Yang's sons are requesting Mr. Albanese do all in his power to save their fathers life and return ...

PALMDALE, Calif.—A 29-year-old man was arrested early Monday, 36 hours after the ambush killing of a Los Angeles ...

Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan were detained by police on April 13 on ...

Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng and his wife Xu Yan were detained Thursday in Beijing when they ...

KARACHI, Pakistan—Pakistani police in multiple raids detained at least 1,200 Afghan nationals who had entered the southern port ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Police in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have detained at least four people for more than ...

BANGKOK—A court in military-ruled Burma (also known as Myanmar) has sentenced a Japanese journalist to serve seven years ...

Detained British-Iranian mother Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had her passport returned and a British negotiating team is in Tehran, ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—The U.S. Navy announced Sunday it seized a boat in the Gulf of Oman carrying ...

TORONTO—Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard will remain behind bars in Toronto as he awaits trial on sexual assault ...

HONG KONG—For scores of Hong Kong democrats, this year's legislative elections were supposed to be a landmark moment ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE—A heavily armed commando unit that assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moise this week comprised 26 Colombians and two ...

PARIS—American rapper Lil Baby was detained in Paris on Thursday for allegedly transporting drugs, according to the city ...

An Australian student says he was made to sit on a plastic chair for 20 hours after being ...

At the beginning of the year when the CCP virus outbreak was at its highest in China, there ...

HONG KONG—Britain said on Aug. 20 it was "extremely concerned" by reports that a staff member at the ...

BEIRUT—A Canadian citizen held by the Syrian government since last year was released in Lebanon on Friday and broke ...

CANBERRA, Australia—Australia's foreign minister said on July 19 her government was "deeply disappointed" that a Chinese Australian writer ...

A Canadian citizen has been detained in the Chinese city of Yantai, a Canadian government spokesman said on ...

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that President Donald Trump made good on his pledge to raise the plight ...

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is leaving for a major international summit in Japan this morning, hoping to make ...

BEIRUT—A U.S. permanent resident and Lebanese businessman who was imprisoned for years in Iran has been freed and ...

The U.S. State Department on May 29 renewed calls for the end of the mass internment of Uyghur ...

The U.S. Border Patrol said Friday that it plans to open a second tent facility to detain migrants ...

SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI—A Chinese trading executive at Litasco SA has been detained by police in Shanghai for alleged tax fraud ...