In a wide-ranging conversation, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani reflects on the unsettled nature of identity, the limits of historical truth and the moral responsibility of writing about people who can no longer speak for
Dozens of organisations representing Hong Kong, Tibetan, Uyghur, Taiwanese and other diaspora communities have launched a coordinated campaign opposing China’s Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, arguing that the legislation threatens
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The growing influence of so-called political Islam over Bangladesh’s public institutions has become one of the defining developments of recent years. Once largely confined to partisan politics and sections of civil society,
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On July 12, 2026, a Dhaka court granted a three-day remand to seven people – Shah Amanat Sabir, Mohammad Hossain Tanim, Mohammad Junayed, Ataullah Shah, Mohammad Abidur Rahman, Mohammad Biojit, and Mohammad
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On the intervening night of July 13-14, 2026, Mewa Singh, an accused in a 2020 sacrilege (beadbi) case, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants inside his residence in Turan village, Fatehgarh
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When President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stood before Parliament in March and confirmed that Sri Lanka had twice turned away American warplanes seeking to land at Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport, the applause that
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Four years ago, Colombo was the world’s cautionary tale. A sovereign default, fuel queues that stretched for kilometres, a presidential palace occupied by its own citizens. This week, the same city is
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed senior security official Yevhenii Khmara as acting defence minister in an effort to contain a political crisis triggered by the dismissal of reformist defence minister Mykhailo
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Nearly eight decades after the end of the Second World War, millions of pages of surviving personnel records from Nazi Germany’s SA and SS have entered a new phase of public accessibility
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The Nicaraguan government has granted mining concessions covering more than 1.2 million hectares—roughly 10 percent of the country’s territory—to Chinese-owned companies, intensifying concerns over the expansion of gold extraction into protected Indigenous
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A rusted shipping container in the Johannesburg township of Katlehong has become an unlikely symbol of a growing crisis in South Africa. As sparks fly from a welding machine sealing its heavy
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The abduction, rape, and killing of 11-year-old Lyhanna has become a defining moment in France’s response to child sexual abuse, triggering one of the country’s largest judicial reviews of unresolved cases involving
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Keep your eyes on the Bab el-Mandeb, or Strait of Tears, the narrow strait at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Twenty-five percent of the world’s container shipping passes through this vital
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U.S. President Donald Trump used a nationally televised address on Thursday evening to revive his longstanding claims that the 2020 presidential election was compromised, announcing the declassification of intelligence documents that he
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In the shadow of Raqqa’s former municipal stadium, once transformed by the Islamic State into a detention, torture and execution center, children from communities divided by nearly 14 years of war now
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After Miami-based firm Affinity Partners secured their first building permit for major developments on Albania’s coast on April 29, outrage in the small Balkan country has steadily grown. Within weeks, a video of a
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