A Reversal That Demands Explanation Australia’s largest superannuation fund has made a calculated wager on the future of coal — and the 3.5 million workers whose retirement savings it manages were not asked whether they approved. AustralianSuper, which administers $367…
A System Exposed Hospital wards have become dangerously hot for staff and patients alike. Road surfaces have buckled and melted under sustained high temperatures. Successive heatwaves this summer have done what years of policy warnings could not: made Britain’s structural…
Two disused Army bases in England are at the centre of a growing political dispute over democratic accountability, after the government moved to bypass local planning authorities and fast-track the conversion of the sites into accommodation for asylum seekers. The…
There is a particular cruelty in being told that a decision affecting your daily life, your property, your sleep, and your sense of security has already been made — and that your role in the process is, at best, ceremonial.…
Overview A Syrian criminal court has handed down death sentences to ousted president Bashar al-Assad and seven former senior officials, convicting them in absentia of murder, torture, arbitrary detention, and crimes against humanity committed during Syria’s nearly fourteen-year civil war.…
What has Arron Banks been accused of? Arron Banks, the businessman and prominent financial backer of Reform UK, is facing mounting pressure to disclose the full scope of a surveillance operation allegedly directed at journalists investigating the party’s funding. The…
A Political Murder Revisited Ecuadorean prosecutors have formally charged seven individuals — among them a former interior minister — in connection with the August 2023 assassination of Fernando Villavicencio, a presidential candidate and anti-corruption legislator shot dead at a campaign…
A Movement Hiding in Plain Sight Across the United States and increasingly in Europe, a network of decentralized far-right groups known as Active Clubs has embedded itself within the aesthetics of fitness culture — martial arts training, weightlifting, outdoor endurance…
The notice arrived without warning or formal explanation. Earlier this week, Belarus’s information ministry added Euronews to its “Republican List of Extremist Materials,” a designation that takes immediate legal effect under Belarusian civil procedure rules and carries consequences extending well…
Gran Tierra Energy Inc, listed on the Toronto, London, and New York exchanges, announced in mid-2025 that it had agreed to divest its entire South American portfolio — comprising all Colombian and Ecuadorian assets — to French oil and gas…