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…
A Protest Born of Desperation Wounded and chronically ill Palestinian journalists gathered in protest this week, issuing an urgent collective demand for medical evacuation from Gaza. Their appeal is not rhetorical. It is a clinical necessity, made urgent by the…
Escalation Enters Second Week The United States conducted a ninth consecutive night of airstrikes against Iran, with President Donald Trump publicly framing the operations as retaliation for the deaths of American military personnel in recent days. The strikes mark a…
Médecins Sans Frontières has called for the immediate release of Palestinian healthcare workers imprisoned by Israel, declaring that prolonged international silence on the matter has hardened into complicity. The organisation issued its statement on Monday, describing itself as “outraged by…
A Childhood Shaped by Fear Timothy Cho was eleven years old when he first watched the state kill someone. The condemned man was bound to a post, stones forced into his mouth so he could not speak final words, and…