The Taliban’s suspension of BBC World Service FM broadcasts highlights mounting pressure on independent journalism in Afghanistan. Against a documented record of arrests, intimidation and censorship targeting media workers, the move threatens
The death of Geli Raubal, Adolf Hitler’s 23-year-old niece, has long been surrounded by conflicting accounts. She was found dead in September 1931 in Hitler’s Munich flat at Prinzregentenplatz. The established chronology
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Fifteen of the 24 defendants tried over Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday bombings were found guilty on Tuesday, while the remaining nine were acquitted and ordered to be released, according to a
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At three in the morning during the Talavera fairs, Gómez was walking with a woman who was not his wife. Some acquaintances spotted them and were understandably surprised. “It is a very
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The alarm triggered by the relationship between a Spanish NATO commander and a Russian-born woman he met through Tinder is the latest episode in a rapidly expanding arena of espionage: mobile applications.
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The European Union has so far failed to secure agreement on extending its sanctions against Russia, with a dispute over two Russian billionaires preventing the 27 member states from completing the required
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The question now is whether the organisation can turn that asset into renewed authority before the political foundations beneath it weaken further. Reform, cost reductions and a strong new secretary-general are presented
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The New Delhi Declaration marks a stronger BRICS push to reshape global governance in favour of greater representation for the Global South. By calling for reforms to the UN Security Council, international
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US President Donald Trump is taking a less combative approach towards China ahead of his meeting with President Xi Jinping this week, reflecting what China experts say is Beijing’s growing leverage through
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Chávez arrived at the General Assembly with a book in hand, Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky. His warning was simple yet devastating: the United States’s pretence of dominating the world put
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Leaving Russia no longer necessarily means leaving Russian repression behind. According to a new report presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Russian Federation has developed a systematic and institutionalised
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On September 10, 2026, the formation of 50 parliamentary standing committees of the 13th National Parliament was completed. Of these, only one person from the opposition party, Deputy leader of the Opposition
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Fifty years on, the bomb has stopped exploding, but the questions it left behind have not. The newly released records deepen the evidence surrounding Pinochet’s alleged role, while the most consequential findings
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The arrangements span Africa and Latin America and have already resulted in deportations to countries with which many migrants have no previous connection. Early agreements included flights to Costa Rica carrying migrants
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The central challenge is consequently not whether the United States should recognise its dependence on China. That dependence is already embedded across critical supply chains. The question is how Washington uses the
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When Indian and Chinese troops confronted each other at Doklam in 2017, the consequences extended far beyond the disputed Himalayan territory. More than 2,000 kilometres away in Mumbai, the confrontation prompted China’s
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