Activists report that more than 2,400 people have been killed in Iran’s crackdown on nationwide protests, according to updated figures from the Human Rights Activist News Agency, which says most of th...
Amnesty International Iran Researcher Raha Bahreini paints a harrowing portrait of a nation under siege by its own government. Amid an internet blackout, reports of systemic, indiscriminate violence h...
François Picard is pleased to welcome independent journalist Laura Jadid sharing a piercing exposé of systemic dysfunction, ethical erosion, and authoritarianism blossoming in the US. In an era marked...
The trial of 8 suspected right-wing extremists accused of planning a coup is beginning in the German city of Dresden. Their goal: A Nazi state....
The number of people killed in the brutal suppression of protests in Iran remains unclear, with reports that the injured are avoiding medical assistance out of fear....
Protests and defiance occurred in Somalia after Israel's recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland. Analysts say it could inspire secessionist movements in other parts of the continent....
Catherine Viette welcomes Kim Aris, son of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who bears witness to the fraught political landscape of Myanmar five years after the 2021 military coup. Mr. Ari...
Jeffrey Ding is an assistant professor of political science at George Washington University. He is the author of Technology and the Rise of Great Powers, an award-winning book exploring the impact of ...
US military forces boarded and took control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela on Tuesday, as part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to take control of the South American cou...
Japan is entering one of its most unpredictable election cycles in decades after the surprise formation of a new centrist political alliance that could redefine the balance of power and potentially re...
French PM Sébastien Lecornu on Tuesday forced part of of a highly-contested budget bill through parliament without a vote by invoking Article 49.3 of the Constitution. FRANCE 24's James André said two...
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was questioned for the second day as part of her appeal trial regarding accusations of embezzlement of EU funds by her party for several years. The morning starte...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday that US President Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs against allies over Greenland is “completely wrong” and a trade war is in no one’s interest. Trump sa...
US President Donald Trump’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been held up as an example of American military power. As Venezuela is not a producer of fentanyl – despite the United ...
A new wave of protests has seen hundreds of Minnesota businesses close and thousands of people march in Minneapolis and the Twin Cities to oppose the Trump administration’s expanded immigration enforc...
Powell typically abstains from directly engaging with Trump's personal attacks. Al Drago/Getty Images The world's most senior bankers have rallied around embattled Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell....
Details emerge of unprecedented crackdown, raising questions over future of protest movement...
A ceasefire agreement and the integration of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into the Syrian army was announced following the army's takeover of areas in the east of the country, including military...
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian homes are either entirely without heating, or with severely reduced heating. This, as temperatures rarely rise above minus 10. It’s the result of Russia’s campaign o...
In 2021, when Beijing finally pledged to stop building and financing new coal power plants overseas, Western governments and climate advocates rejoiced. John Kerry, US climate envoy at the time, said ...