New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Thursday appointing Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the alleged gang rape of a former Cornell University student by members of a campus fraternity in October 2024 — a…
A Bilateral Arrangement That Could Not Survive Contact With Reality The scheme lasted less than a year. The UK-France “one in, one out” pilot agreement, announced with considerable fanfare by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Emmanuel Macron at a…
Representative Jamie Raskin sent a letter to Apple this week sharply questioning the company’s stated rationale for removing ICEBlock — an app that allowed users to report and track Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity — from the App Store, escalating…
Arrests in Northeastern Colombia Colombian police on Sunday arrested the wife and daughter of José Adolfo Macías Villamar — the Ecuadorian gang leader known as “Fito” who was extradited to the United States last year on drug trafficking charges —…
What happened in the early hours of Sunday morning? Shortly before 1am on Sunday, 27 September, a resident in the village of Whelford, Gloucestershire, noticed three white vans moving in the direction of RAF Fairford. She first called the airbase…
In December 2014, a teenage girl slipped out of east London and crossed into territory held by the Islamic State. She was among the first British schoolgirls to do so, and her departure would reverberate through the lives of several…
What has triggered this sudden diplomatic mobilisation? On Thursday, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan convened an urgent meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, agreeing to accelerate military consultations under…
Eight months ago, men from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps arrived in the night and took Taraneh and Romina Rahimi from their beds. The twin sisters, then twenty-one years old, had joined street protests in Isfahan on 8 and 9…
From a terrace overlooking the Acropolis, with the ancient citadel casting its long shadow over a city still scarred by a decade of austerity, two Greek parliamentarians sat down recently to argue about who, exactly, can still afford to live…
The appeal came quietly but with unmistakable intent. Speaking after France moved to have Uzbek-Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov removed from the European Union’s Russia sanctions list, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Vsevolod Chentsov, made Kyiv’s position…