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In a televised presidential debate in Sao Paulo on October 18, Flavio Bolsonaro brought a number from Brazil’s prisons into an argument over crime....
International politics today feels like a collective sleepwalk into the abyss. Three trends are particularly alarming. Artificial intelligence is...
Last weekend, the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17) opened in Yerevan with a lavish...
For the past four-and-a-half years, the war on Europe’s doorstep has haunted policymakers. Yet they have treated it as a looming threat rather than...
We are currently experiencing a wave of protests across Europe and beyond. Many have been dubbed “Gen Z protests”, with young people aged roughly...
This week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov travelled to Iran, where he met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and several other...
Cornell University’s internal processes for responding to sexual assault reports failed “Jane Doe”. In 2024, the third-year student reported...
As protests in France turned violent late last week, the French far right quickly resorted to racist language to blame the Muslim youth for the...
This autumn, the Supreme Court will consider a question with potentially far-reaching consequences for civil rights in the United States: Who gets to...
On October 16, King Mohammed VI of Morocco appointed a new government headed by Prime Minister Fatima Zohra Al Mansouri. This is the first time in...
Across Southeast Asia, the haze has returned with a familiar cruelty. Malaysia has closed schools as air quality deteriorated, Singapore...
As the midterm elections near, we are hearing a lot about a “split” within the Make America Great Again (MAGA) coalition, which got Donald Trump...
In the months leading up to the disastrous 2006 election, President George W Bush fired his press secretary, Scott McClellan, and withdrew the Supreme...
Cuba is once again in the United States’s crosshairs. Washington’s operation in Venezuela at the start of the year is largely seen to have paved...
As the growth of artificial intelligence accelerates, it is already posing significant challenges to society. Companies have started laying off...
“It’s painful when President [Donald] Trump chooses one side, not our side,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Wednesday. The...
Since the start of the war, there have been several negotiation initiatives between the United States and Iran. Only one – the memorandum of...
Americans can rest easy – for the moment, at least. The fine folks at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have thwarted a major national security...
Over the weekend, thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of India’s chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, faced mass detentions and...
On October 8, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim received Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing in Putrajaya with a guard of honour and an...
Nature is humanity’s life-support system, but it is being depleted at an alarming rate, leaving our world increasingly vulnerable. From deadly...
More than three years into the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Sudan is desperately in need of a...
The attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis on Saudi Arabia have pushed the war in Yemen to a new level. The targeting of civilian infrastructure,...
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has made Muslim solidarity central to how it presents itself. Nine years ago, Myanmar’s military...
Yemen is witnessing a major military escalation that has once again brought the western coast and the area around the Bab al-Mandeb strait to the...
As winter approaches, Russia has lifted its ban on exports of diesel and is preparing to sell hundreds of thousands of tonnes to the United States and...
The sanctions the United States has imposed on the International Criminal Court threaten to degrade its capacity to function, leaving it to die a slow...
It is said that if you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, nobody notices. That is how some people deceive themselves into believing that small...
When the “ceasefire” was announced on October 10 last year, we knew how much needed repairing. For the first time in a long while, we thought we...
As we begin the fourth year of a war that has brought the near-total destruction of Gaza, calls for Hamas to surrender administrative authority and...
For two years, Dhaka has deployed a soft diplomatic arsenal of prized Haribhanga mangoes, hilsa fish, jamdani fabrics, and Tangail sarees to keep its...
In the eyes of Israeli authorities, Palestinians in Gaza have it “too good”. Three years into Israel’s genocide, the survivors have been pushed...
The latest general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on October 4, repeated a pattern familiar from most electoral contests over the past...
Three years have passed since Hamas’s attack shook Israel and triggered the ongoing genocidal war. The image of the Israeli army as an invincible...
No notion has been so cynically exploited and distorted by both its supporters and its detractors as Zionism. Just when you think you have seen enough...
On Sunday, at its annual conference in Brighton, the British Green Party voted to recognise Zionism as racism. The motion, which describes Zionism as...
Two days after the announced counter-offensive by the internationally recognised Yemeni government, the operation named Dawn of Yemen has already made...
This October, India is a country where a million mutinies are gathering force. India’s “cockroaches” — supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party...
It has been three years of the genocidal horror in Gaza. Three years of death, destruction, despair and doom. More than 74,000 people have been...
The Republican Party’s powerful alliance with Israel — repeatedly reaffirmed during President Donald Trump’s second term — is rooted in...
More than 1,700 healthcare workers have been killed during the genocide in Gaza. Israel has detained hundreds more without charges. Doctors, nurses...
The world often discusses the nuclear threat posed by Russia, but far less attention is paid to the nuclear risks within Russia itself, particularly...
As Israel prepares to mark three years since the October 7 attacks and with less than a month to go to parliamentary elections, one topic is...
Let’s pretend that the Islamic Republic of Iran had undertaken to execute a 50-year-old woman for a crime committed when she was an 18-year-old....
Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund and Senegal announced a new loan programme worth $2.2bn. This came after a previous deal was...
After more than three years, Washington continues to fumble its way through a response to Sudan’s heart-wrenching war. This past week, it may have...
It is increasingly difficult to regard what is happening in the West Bank as merely a series of measures that the Israeli government justifies on...
A shift is taking place in Washington. Senate Democrats are moving to sanction individuals and entities involved in Israel’s E1 settlement project,...
This week, Botswana is marking 60 years of independence from Britain with Diamond Jubilee celebrations across the country. The anniversary underscores...
The school year started in occupied East Jerusalem with the news that 45,000 Palestinian children are now studying a curriculum put together by the...