On a Tuesday morning in late spring, riot police in central Athens fired tear gas into a crowd of several thousand demonstrators who had marched from Syntagma Square toward the United States Embassy. The immediate trigger was the arrival of…
A Repatriation That Raises Fundamental Questions of Consent and Safety The ships have docked. The question of whether those aboard had any real choice in boarding them remains unanswered. On Sunday, 1,479 Myanmar nationals transported from Malaysia aboard two navy…
The near-catastrophe aboard FlyDubai Flight 981 last Wednesday was not a failure of fate. It was a failure of systems — multiple, overlapping, and entirely preventable. According to reporting by the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the investigation,…
What happened at Manchester City Council? A senior director at Manchester City Council resigned after allegedly being instructed to author an official report recommending that the council purchase a dilapidated property at a price he believed exceeded its true market…
A Deployment That Rewrites the Rules of Sahel Security When Algeria dispatched four Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jets to Niamey on the night of August 28–29, it was not merely responding to a crisis. It was making a statement about who…
The embassy gates in Asmara closed quietly. No formal ceremony, no negotiated withdrawal — just the abrupt departure of ten Eritrean diplomats, expelled by Addis Ababa in a move that has now fractured one of the Horn of Africa’s most…
In 1965, three years before Mauritius achieved independence from Britain, London detached the Chagos archipelago from the territory it was about to relinquish. The separation was administrative in form, but its consequences were to prove catastrophic in human terms. Britain…
What happened to the nurses? Between October 2022 and September 2023, ninety-two Pakistani nurses — the overwhelming majority of them women — were recruited for hospital positions in Saudi Arabia under a visa category designated “Nurse Highly Qualified.” They were…
A bilateral agreement between the United Kingdom and France that was presented as a landmark step in managing cross-Channel migration is now, by the account of senior French officials, weeks away from permanent dissolution. The so-called ‘one in, one out’…
Seven days. That is the window Israel has given Dutch diplomats stationed in Ramallah to surrender their Israeli-issued credentials and, in effect, sever their operational presence in the occupied West Bank. The deadline is not a bureaucratic formality. It is…