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
More than 53 lakh voters in Telangana have been placed on an electoral list of the absent, shifted, dead and duplicate — a bureaucratic classification that has become the centre of an
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Berlin’s Wall disappeared more than three decades ago. Its political geography did not. Across the city, voting patterns have repeatedly traced invisible boundaries, revealing how history, age, education, housing, migration and everyday
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“Before, I was afraid of the Sebin, and now I don’t know whether I have to be afraid of the CIA.” The remark, made by an opposition lawmaker in Caracas, captures the
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Across Tehran, banners carrying images of rocket-propelled grenades, sniper rifles, assault weapons and communications equipment pose a blunt question: “Do you know how to work with this?” The message forms part of
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Five years after Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated, the investigation into one of the most consequential political murders in Haiti’s recent history has entered a new phase. Haiti has extradited 18
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Italy is preparing to ban face coverings in schools and introduce limits on the number of foreign students allowed in each class, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday, placing migration and
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There is a particular cruelty in watching a militant group dress exploitation up as liberation. For two decades, the Baloch Liberation Army fought a low-intensity insurgency largely through men ambushes, attacks on
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The American conspiracy will soon perish in the ruins of its own making. Before 5 August 2024, Bangladesh was like a sajano-guchano sangsar—a household painstakingly arranged after decades of sacrifice, struggle and
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Delcy Rodríguez will travel to New York next week to participate in the United Nations General Assembly, in what will be the first visit by a Venezuelan head of state to the
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At 27, Verena Bahlsen entered the leadership of the family company that had produced biscuits for generations. Two years later, she was gone. The departure marked the end of an unusually public
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Sri Lanka has never had a constitution genuinely drafted by its people, according to constitutional scholar Professor Rohan Edrisinha, who has argued that the country’s constitutional history reflects a deeper contradiction: institutions
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Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s leader, has emerged from the post-pandemic period with a stronger strategic position than in previous years. His country is now a de facto nuclear power, its economy
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A former Australian defence official’s decision to invoke an “aggressive Indonesia” while arguing for the strategic value of Aukus submarines has created an awkward moment for relations between Canberra and Jakarta. Michael
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The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
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The United States has spent years confronting Russian influence operations, disinformation and covert activity directed primarily at Europe. Now, according to newly unsealed charges by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), an
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