A network of people-smugglers is advertising routes out of the United Kingdom — concealing migrants in lorries crossing the Channel by ferry or train — to position them for Spain’s ongoing regularisation programme for undocumented residents. The operation, documented through…
A Crisis Reshaped by External Force Seven months ago, the trajectory of Venezuela’s political crisis shifted in a manner that few analysts had anticipated. What had long been a domestic confrontation between the government of President Nicolás Maduro and a…
Near the village of Tal in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers marched through a Palestinian cemetery and smashed the stonework marking the graves of the dead. What took place was not an isolated act of vandalism but a pattern…
The Trump administration has, for the first time in the three decades since its creation, convened the Alien Terrorist Removal Court — a secretive judicial body whose legality remains contested — in a bid to deport Nazira Haji Zada, a…
A Russian missile crossed into Polish territory on Thursday morning and detonated in an open field, triggering an immediate response from NATO and the European Union and raising, once again, the spectre of the war’s geographic containment unravelling. Polish Prime…
Healthcare workers at an Ebola treatment centre in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have walked off the job, demanding two months of unpaid wages. Their strike comes as the outbreak’s recorded death toll climbs past 1,400 — a convergence…
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares once again to meet US President Donald Trump, the historical record offers a sobering lens through which to read that encounter. Declassified intelligence assessments, memoirs by senior American officials, investigative journalism, and academic…
Five years to the day after President Kais Saied suspended Tunisia’s parliament and arrogated near-absolute executive power to himself, thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of Tunis on 25 July 2026, reviving a slogan that once brought down a dictator:…
A Chinese Coast Guard vessel directed water cannon fire at Philippine government boats near Scarborough Shoal, marking the latest escalation in a sustained pattern of coercive enforcement actions in the disputed South China Sea. The incident adds to a documented…
On a Wednesday evening in Narathiwat province, approximately ten assailants dressed in black arrived at the Buketa Sami checkpoint aboard a pickup truck and motorcycles, and within minutes five Thai paramilitary soldiers were dead. Six civilians were wounded in the…