A Bilateral Arrangement That Could Not Survive Contact With Reality The scheme lasted less than a year. The UK-France “one in, one out” pilot agreement, announced with considerable fanfare by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President Emmanuel Macron at a…
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 —…
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…
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…
Eight months ago, men from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps arrived in the night and took Taraneh and Romina Rahimi from their beds. The twin sisters, then twenty-one years old, had joined street protests in Isfahan on 8 and 9…
From a terrace overlooking the Acropolis, with the ancient citadel casting its long shadow over a city still scarred by a decade of austerity, two Greek parliamentarians sat down recently to argue about who, exactly, can still afford to live…
What happened at Tumbler Ridge, and why is a government suing a tech company? On 10 February 2026, an 18-year-old named Jesse Van Rootselaar killed eight people in and around a secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, a small town in…
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a Venezuelan man working as a food delivery driver in Austin, Texas, on Sunday afternoon, triggering immediate protests and demands for an independent inquiry into what is now the second…
In mid-August, a supertanker called the Singapore Prosperity — carrying an estimated two million barrels of crude oil — docked at a series of Saudi ports before heading toward the Strait of Hormuz. Then its transponder went dark. Two days…
A System Under Strain When the European Union’s Entry and Exit System — known as the EES — came into force in October 2025, it was billed as a modernising leap: replacing manual passport stamps with electronic biometric registration for…