A photograph circulating from Saturday’s anti-immigration demonstration in Portsmouth shows an elderly man in handcuffs, black scarves tied across his face and head, surrounded by officers. That man, Timothy Justin Miller, 76, of Sherwood Avenue, Hedge End, Southampton, has since…
A Decision Under the Microscope When Kensington Palace confirmed that Prince George, thirteenth in line to the throne and heir apparent, would attend Eton College, the announcement drew an immediate and notably sharp public reaction. Critics characterised the choice as…
A Court’s Verdict on Memory Itself A Hong Kong court has sentenced two pro-democracy activists — Lee Cheuk-yan and Chow Hang-tung — to seven years in prison, following convictions for inciting subversion under the national security law imposed by Beijing…
What is this investigation about? Police Scotland is under formal investigation by the United Kingdom’s data protection authority over its handling of information requests from members of the public, as a pattern of systemic data failures comes into sharper focus.…
Eight Arab and Muslim-majority states, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, issued a joint statement on Wednesday endorsing British-led sanctions targeting Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, and urged other governments to adopt comparable measures in…
A Protest Movement That Will Not Quiet For more than 100 consecutive days, Albanians have taken to the streets of Tirana to oppose a luxury coastal development linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. On Tuesday, as parliament reconvened following…
The day after Indonesia marked its 81st Independence Day, hundreds of university students descended on the streets of Jakarta to challenge the policies of a government that had just finished celebrating the nation’s founding ideals. The timing was not incidental.…
A student is dead. The shooter was also a student. He killed himself after opening fire inside a Catholic junior high school in Zamboanga City, in the southern Philippines, on Tuesday. According to Zamboanga City Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso, speaking…
Ceasefire Framework Collapses as Deadline Passes A Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran, signed in June to halt months of armed conflict and restore freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, expired on Monday with no…
A U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems, Britain’s largest defence contractor, has agreed to pay a $36 million penalty after the U.S. State Department found it had violated federal arms export laws on at least 104 separate occasions — including an…