The Iranian regime’s recent crackdown on protests in Tehran and the country’s central region featured the use of military weapons, such as automatic or semi-automatic machine guns, that were previousl...
The US state of Minnesota is bracing for a statewide day of protest. Residents are expected to stay home on January 23, shutting down schools and businesses to "ICE out ICE", protesting the intensifie...
El Salvador's gang-busting President Nayib Bukele on Wednesday laid the foundation stone for a prison in Costa Rica modeled on his own CECOT mega-jail that rights groups say is the setting for serious...
An appeal trial opened in Paris on Monday for four men convicted over the 2020 beheading of schoolteacher Samuel Paty, which shocked France. Paty, 47, was murdered by an 18-year-old Islamist radical f...
Residents of the Ukrainian capital are facing massive power outages, a lack of water and heat as Russia intensifies attacks on the country's energy grid. As many as 600,000 may have left the city....
With the last stage of Jimmy Lai's national security trial drawing to a close, Hong Kong's High Court is set to decide on the sentence for the pro-democracy tycoon. Will Lai get life in prison?...
With France’s local elections set for March, attention is turning to homelessness in the race for Paris city hall, as more than 3,500 people were living on the streets of the French capital last year,...
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...
As the world flocks to Davos, the host country ponders a population cap...
TikTok's takeover in the US has prompted users to join an alternative social platform called UpScrolled. The app, which is available on Android and iOS , currently holds the 12th spot in Apple's App S...
Despite bitter cold with temperatures starting around −29 °C, organisers said up to 50,000 people marched through the streets of Minneapolis and St Paul to demand that immigration enforcement officers...
Parents can now manually set a time limit on their kids' YouTube Shorts feed, ranging from fifteen minutes to two hours (with an option for zero minutes coming soon). The update, announced on Wednesda...
Tensions continued over the weekend in Minneapolis, as protesters clashed in the streets with law enforcement....
Iranians across the country have taken to the streets at great risk, facing a violent government crackdown....
ICE could become the largest enforcement agency in the US, but critics say its behaviour is increasingly lawless...
Between 2010 and 2020, atheists represented the fastest-growing population group on the continent, according to new data....
Internet access was partially restored in Iran after two weeks of blackout during the anti-government protests which authorities violently cracked down on. This partial access allowed thousands of vid...
Russia targeted energy infrastructure in Odesa region overnight on Sunday, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Service. A fire broke out and was promptly extinguished. At least six people were wounded in...
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa issued a decree on Friday declaring Kurdish a "national language", in an apparent gesture of good will towards the minority following clashes in recent days. The decre...
How isolation, intransigence and desperate economic hardship provoked an upsurge of protest that brought the regime to the brink...