A Crowded Market, a Drone, and 150 Dead A drone strike on a market in Abyei, the disputed territory straddling the border between Sudan and South Sudan, killed at least 150 people, according to reports emerging from the region. The…
Sharone Lifschitz, a British-Israeli artist and film-maker whose parents were seized by Hamas during the October 7th attacks, has said that a “big majority” of Israelis now oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking ahead of what analysts have described as…
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha filed a lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday, making the state the first in the nation to take legal action against the social media giant over its handling of fraudulent advertisements — allegations that…
The International Criminal Court is being squeezed from multiple directions simultaneously, and yet it continues to function. That, in itself, is the central fact that demands examination. The question is not merely whether the court is surviving American pressure, but…
A demarcation line drawn on a map, presented as a temporary boundary, has been quietly hardening into something more permanent. That line, known as the “Yellow Line,” now cuts across Gaza, separating an eastern zone under Israeli military control from…
A Critical System Falls Silent For more than a week, Ukrainian frontline units operated under conditions of degraded satellite connectivity that commanders described as operationally damaging. Drones were lost. Missions were disrupted. Then, on Saturday morning, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced…
There is something quietly devastating about a war being decided, even partially, by a satellite speed cap. Last week, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal citing US officials and people familiar with the matter, Elon Musk ordered…
The virus moved through care homes with devastating speed. Behind locked doors — locked, in part, to relatives who had no choice but to wait — it found the most vulnerable people in British society and killed them in numbers…
A Crisis of Funding, Not of Access On 19 October 2026, the United Nations World Food Programme announced that acute funding shortages had compelled it to reduce food assistance across Gaza by approximately one-third, stripping half a million people of…
Eight people are dead, sixty wounded, and more than a million households left without electricity after Russian forces struck nine Ukrainian regions on Friday in a coordinated assault targeting civilian infrastructure and population centres. In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, strikes…