The city of el-Obeid, home to more than half a million people and long a critical humanitarian corridor for northwestern Sudan, is being steadily strangled. Months of siege by the Rapid Support Forces, intensifying drone strikes on civilian infrastructure, and…
The Israeli government has announced it will refuse to comply with a ruling by the country’s Supreme Court — a move without precedent in Israel’s modern history, and one that has sent the country’s already fractured political establishment into open…
A Relationship Fraying at the Edges In a brief phone interview with Axios, US President Donald Trump offered a characteristically blunt assessment of his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We get along very good,” Trump said. “[Netanyahu] knows…
A Structural Accountability Failure The central fact is stark and demands sustained attention: of the 751,861 children currently facing removal proceedings in U.S. immigration courts, 425,093 — 57 percent — have no legal representation whatsoever. This is not a marginal…
A Politician at Ease on the Public Stage Two qualities distinguish Andy Burnham from the man he is almost certainly about to replace. The first is an evident comfort with public exposure — the microphone, the camera, the unscripted moment.…
UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced plans this week to dismantle the existing asylum appeals tribunal and replace it with a new body staffed by members of the public trained in a magistrate-style model — a structural overhaul that would…
Netanyahu Declares Open-Ended Israeli Military Presence in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israeli forces will remain deployed across three neighbouring territories — southern Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza — for as long as he…
UK Immigration Bill to Restrict Asylum Rights and Curb Human Rights Protections, MPs Warned Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to place a sweeping immigration and asylum bill before parliament as early as next Tuesday, introducing measures that would accelerate…
Campaigners Urge Starmer to Deliver on Manifesto Pledge Before Departure Hillsborough survivors and bereaved families are pressing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to pass the Hillsborough Law in full before he leaves office, warning that further delays would constitute a…
Over 100 physicians with foreign sanctions reached British patients after UK was cut off from EU disciplinary database More than 100 doctors who had been banned from practising medicine in European Union member states were able to obtain or retain…