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…
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…