United Nations human rights experts have condemned the arrest, alleged enforced disappearance and detention of six Egyptian journalists who make up the entire newsroom of the independent investigative media platform Matsadaash, warning
US President Donald Trump has renewed his campaign to restrict birthright citizenship by signing two executive orders that seek to limit the automatic acquisition of US citizenship in narrowly defined circumstances, despite
More
At least seven people have died, including the suspected teenage gunman, following a shooting at a secondary school in Thailand’s Nonthaburi province, north of Bangkok, in one of the country’s latest incidents
More
A Spanish police officer who has accused a senior police commissioner of sexual and workplace harassment has challenged a court order requiring her to surrender the mobile phone used to record alleged
More
Editorial The judgment delivered by Judge Bryan Biedscheid of the First Judicial District Court in New Mexico yesterday, 6 August 2026, may prove to be one of the most consequential legal decisions
More
From the Bengal famine of 1943 to the election of the Left Front government in 1977, the communist movement in West Bengal, India, patiently built its strength among workers, peasants, refugees, students,
More
A court in the US state of New Mexico has ruled that Meta must pay 567 million US dollars over the psychological harm suffered by children, marking a significant development in legal
More
More than three years after civil war broke out in Sudan, the southern Egyptian city of Aswan has become a place of prolonged uncertainty for thousands of Sudanese refugees who remain stranded
More
Sri Lanka’s government has announced revised salary scales for medical officers and specialist doctors while disclosing fresh figures on the number of doctors who have travelled overseas in recent years, as Parliament
More
For Souleymane Griene, Europe began not with opportunity but with survival. After escaping death in the waters separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, the 20-year-old climbed into an Islamic cemetery
More
by Luxman Aravind The last week Trial-at-Bar judgment in the Easter Sunday criminal proceedings is far more than another judicial determination. It is a significant legal milestone that compels a reassessment of one
More
A mysterious folded note handed to Mexican singer Chalino Sánchez during a concert in Culiacán became the haunting prelude to one of the most enduring mysteries in Latin American popular music. More
More
Successive nationwide failures of Cuba’s electricity grid have plunged the island’s nine million residents into prolonged darkness, exposing the cumulative impact of chronic underinvestment, ageing infrastructure, fuel shortages, economic decline, and tightening
More
Each year on 5 August, Pakistan observes Youm-e-Istehsal, a day of solidarity marking the anniversary of India’s 2019 decision to revoke Article 370 of its constitution, the clause that had granted Indian-administered
More
UN experts have urged the Government of Sri Lanka to take immediate steps to ensure accountability for the killing of 17 humanitarian workers in the eastern town of Muttur, marking 20 years
More
Poland has appealed a Belgian court ruling requiring it to accept and pay for millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses rejected under a European Union procurement agreement negotiated during the pandemic. The legal
More