On a bank holiday weekend in Polperro, a harbour village on Cornwall’s southern coast, untreated sewage forced its way through the harbour wall and into the water below. Families were nearby. The sea was open. The company responsible had alarms…
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 —…
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…
For Fabio, a 33-year-old Italian engineer who arrived in London in 2018 to pursue a PhD and has since built a career and a life there, the letter from the Home Office arrived like a verdict on everything he had…
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…
The United States is simultaneously threatening Cuba with military intervention, predicting a diplomatic deal, and maintaining an oil blockade that Cuban officials say is driving the country toward humanitarian collapse. The contradiction is not accidental — it is the architecture…
The rapper who once sang about finding bargains at Goodwill has, over the course of a decade, transformed into one of the most outspoken advocates for Palestinian rights in mainstream American music. The sequence of events that brought Benjamin Hammond…
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…