Three ballistic missiles. Six dead. A rescue operation interrupted by a second strike. Crew members who survived a Houthi attack on a Yemeni commercial vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait this week have described a scene of cascading catastrophe —…
The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded that California’s prison system failed, in a systematic and sustained manner, to protect incarcerated women from sexual abuse and harassment by correctional staff — and that the mechanisms designed to address such abuse…
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.…
For three decades, Riad Salameh presided over Lebanon’s Banque du Liban with near-untouchable authority. Appointed central bank governor in 1993, he was long celebrated in international financial circles as a steward of monetary stability — even as Lebanon’s economy accumulated…
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…
Overview A 14-year-old student killed at least eight people and wounded more than thirty others on Friday morning after opening fire at the Nonthaburi branch of Debsirin School on the outskirts of Bangkok. The attack, which unfolded shortly after 10am…
For decades, the islands of Kinmen and the Matsu archipelago have occupied a peculiar position in the geography of unresolved conflict — close enough to the Chinese mainland that their inhabitants can, on a clear day, see its coastline, yet…
A North Korean missile unit is being transferred to Russian territory, according to Ukrainian military intelligence, bringing with it an estimated 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers intended for use against Ukraine. The deployment, if confirmed, would represent a qualitative…
A Vessel Under Scrutiny On the morning of 2 August, the Italian naval frigate Thaon di Revel intercepted a tanker in international waters west of Pantelleria, the small Italian island that sits between Sicily and Tunisia, in what represents one…
A minister’s resignation rarely resolves the crisis that caused it. When Dharmendra Pradhan stepped down as India’s education minister last month following sustained street protests by Gen-Z demonstrators over repeated entrance examination paper leaks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi moved quickly…