Kim Aris, the youngest son of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has spoken to his mother for the first time in five years, in a development that has provided
A significant number of the world’s biggest polluters, including the EU, Australia, South Africa, and India, are expected to miss a key UN deadline to submit updated climate targets, due to economic
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In the heart of the Saudi desert, a project of unprecedented ambition is taking shape—NEOM, a $2 trillion mega-development hailed as the future of urban living. Promoted as a utopian city that
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The University of California (UC) system is facing a federal lawsuit accusing it of racial discrimination in its admissions process. The lawsuit, filed on Monday by Students Against Racial Discrimination, claims that
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Natacha Rey, the French journalist who alleged that Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, was born a man, is reportedly seeking political asylum in Russia. Citing persecution in France, Rey
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As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares for a pivotal meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, families of hostages held by Hamas, along with activists, have intensified their efforts to ensure that
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by Our Correspondent in Brussel The European Union is preparing to fundamentally overhaul its immigration policy, aiming to revamp the post-war 1951 Refugee Convention, which has long governed asylum procedures. The drastic
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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has accused the US Agency for International Development (USAID) of financing bioweapon research, including projects allegedly linked to the emergence of Covid-19. Musk branded the agency a “criminal
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WhatsApp has revealed that spyware developed by the Israeli cybersecurity firm Paragon was used to hack nearly 100 journalists and civil society activists, marking the first time the company has been publicly
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Orlando Patterson’s Enslavement Past and Present is an exhaustive and deeply analytical examination of slavery, tracing its evolution from antiquity to its modern manifestations in human trafficking and forced labour. The book
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Rabbi Yoel Alter, the 35-year-old leader of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish cult Lev Tahor (meaning “Pure Heart” in Hebrew), has been arrested in Guatemala following a coordinated operation led by Interpol. Alter was
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An Italian priest has been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church after publicly refusing to recognize the authority of Pope Francis and calling him the “antipope.” Father Natale Santonocito, 61, was barred
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Nearly 1,500 workers at Samsung’s massive plant in Chennai have overcome fierce opposition from both the courts and the corrupt state government, both of which aligned with the multinational giant in an
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The violence and suffering in Myanmar’s ongoing civil war are harrowing, but amid the brutality, there are moments of deep humanity and forgiveness, particularly within the ranks of the Chin National Defence
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My birth emerged from European capitalism’s fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s–1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel’s experiment with settler colonialism in Palestine. This article refers to both these incidents to analyze the
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Several recent studies have warned against the oppressive heatwaves occurring worldwide due to global warming in the coming years. Certainly, there is widespread concern about the climate changes taking place, which are
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