Christa Pike's survival has exposed a contradiction that capital punishment normally conceals. The state can declare a life forfeit, but when its machinery of death fails, it suddenly becomes responsible for keeping
“Nothing is easier than to be idealistic on behalf of others.” Karl Marx, 1858 Under cover of night, the US military kidnapped the lawful Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and
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For 27 years, Ahmad Khan’s life was in Pakistan. Originally from Afghanistan, he ran a small shoe shop in Sialkot in the north, sent his children to a local school and watched
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Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri arrived in Sri Lanka on August 5, a historic day in India-Sri Lanka relations. August 5, 1987, is historically significant because it was the day on which,
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As Der Spiegel has examined in its reporting on “Hitler’s Fangirls”, Adolf Hitler’s appeal to women remains one of the more disturbing paradoxes of the Nazi era. The man who could appear
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Europe is confronting several crises at once, each distinct in origin but increasingly interconnected in its consequences. Devastating wildfires and extreme heat have strained emergency-response systems across the continent, a sudden migrant
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Chinese automotive parts companies have quietly increased their control over parts of Europe’s car supply chain, acquiring local suppliers as Beijing seeks to expand its industrial presence in Europe amid growing resistance
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Prices for the busiest shipping routes through the Panama Canal have reached record levels as falling water levels linked to an intensifying El Niño and strong demand connected to the Iran war
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Suspected Chinese hackers used publicly available artificial intelligence tools to compromise government websites in Taiwan in what researchers described as a first-of-a-kind breach, highlighting how rapidly artificial intelligence is changing the nature
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India has described incidents along its disputed border with China as “most serious”, warning that the condition of the frontier will directly affect the wider relationship between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. The
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Myanmar’s military is increasingly using drones, motorised paragliders and other low-cost aircraft to attack civilians, according to United Nations investigators, highlighting the widening use of improvised and inexpensive aerial weapons as the
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By the early 2030s the US will have a “new” tank to replace the Abrams M1. The M1 was designed between 1972 and 1976, although many changes have been made over the
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Taiwan has condemned planned Chinese navy drills involving an Indonesian warship off its east coast, accusing Beijing of attempting to create a false impression internationally that it exercises jurisdiction over waters east
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North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the sea off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese authorities said, days before major joint military exercises between
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Erblin Ademi watched from a distance as workers began excavating recently discovered mass graves in Kosovo. Nearly 30 years after his father disappeared during the 1998-99 war, Ademi is caught between fear
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Five years after returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have expanded diplomatic and economic relations with a growing number of countries despite continuing international concerns over human rights and the absence
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