Explore the fascinating world of modern monarchies in this video. Today, 44 of the 195 sovereign nations still have a monarch ...

Promotion of democracy and human rights are often linked or even viewed as identical aims. In the U.S. State Department, the office dealing with this subject area is called the Bureau of Democracy, ...

The British royal family gathers on the balcony of Buckingham Palace during Trooping The Colour, the Queen's annual birthday parade, on June 08, 2019. Reporter In his new memoir, Spare, Prince Harry ...

In countries such as Jordan and Bahrain, kings may survive the region-wide turmoil that has toppled two presidents Arab monarchies were long thought to be more favorable to democratization than ...

ON APRIL 18th Akihito, the 125th emperor of Japan and descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, returned to a shrine the sword extracted by Amaterasu’s brother Susanowo from a vanquished monster’s tail ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the Arab Spring protests erupted in 2010, many political pundits predicted the uprisings would ripple through the entire ...

There’s no short-cut from the Queen to William and Kate, bypassing Charles and Camilla, but the monarchy is built on more than popularity. EPA/Andy Rains Royalty remains an important part of the ...

Not all countries have Presidents or Prime Ministers. Some have kings, queens, emirs or sultans. Or, like the UK, some have both. These are some of the countries that still have monarchies. Hamad bin ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wild rumours about Gulf states’ plans to contain Arab uprisings have been circulating for weeks. There was talk ...