A Dutch court ruled that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates could face trial in the Netherlands, following a case filed by seven individuals claiming to have suffered injuries from COVID-19 vaccines. The case,
by Durga Velayudham The Easter Sunday investigations have ceased to be merely a search for criminal responsibility. They have become a constitutional test of whether Sri Lanka remains governed by the rule
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The fragile pause in fighting has opened the way for thousands of displaced Lebanese to return to the country’s southern border region, but the homecoming has unfolded in landscapes marked by destruction
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A deeply personal essay published by Die Zeit examines how a series of widely reported sexual abuse and violence cases has transformed one mother’s perception of safety, trust and parenting. Drawing on
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It is 19 April 2025. A 12-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother are playing in front of their house in the village of Bert-Furik. A group of Israeli settlers kidnaps them. At
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Summary: When people think of economic sanctions, they often imagine a mechanism targeting a specific government, specific assets, or a list of names. But the U.S. sanctions regime operates differently and in a
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My phone buzzed. It was my girlfriend. ‘Get out of there,’ she said. Her voice was shaking. I was in Graz, Austria, at a European footvolley tournament. I had come to compete.
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The rapid expansion of generative artificial intelligence tools is driving a sharp increase in sexually explicit deepfakes targeting women in India, according to a report by El País. The publication documented cases
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The European Parliament’s latest intervention on Pakistan raises a difficult question: when does legitimate human-rights scrutiny become an oversimplification of another country’s judicial process and when does it become political leverage? At
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A Sri Lankan man who had recently returned to the country after working in South Korea died by suicide while appearing on a Facebook live broadcast, in an incident reported from the
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Ten years ago, Turkish journalist and writer Ece Temelkuran made a phone call she never expected to make. Speaking to her mother from Zagreb, she delivered a sentence that many migrants fear
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