At the end of 2025, many Iranian merchants closed their shops to protest rampant inflation. At the start of 2026, the government faces further fallout from sanctions, economic crisis and environmental...
Videos verified by the Observers team show Iranian security forces attacking a hospital to arrest injured protesters in Ilam, western Iran, on the night of January 3-4. Earlier in the day, Iranian sec...
📋 Key Facts ✓ The Finnish government released a Truth and Reconciliation report documenting harms to the Sámi people. ✓ Climate change,...
Elon Musk’s AI Grok has been fiercely criticised in recent days, after the chatbot began generating sexualised images of women and girls, flooding the app with explicit content. Some of the images inv...
A novel approach by South Korea to stop its rural areas from dying by paying people to live there appears to be working. Okcheon in North Chungcheong province saw its population grow by almost 1,000 i...
Newly obtained video by ABC News shows the moments leading up to the fatal shooting of Renee Good. Tensions continue to flare in Minneapolis ICE officer fatally shot the 37-year-old woman....
A volunteer security official was reportedly among the people killed in the response to protests. As Iran slips deeper into economic crisis, the unrest, which began Sunday in Tehran, has spread to oth...
An Iranian police officer was killed in a stabbing during unrest near the capital, local media reported on Thursday as protests over the cost of living in the country entered a 12th day. Several Kurdi...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Prime Minister Starmer lacks a coherent social mobility plan according to a top government adviser. ✓ The chair of the So...
The snow-lined street in the midwestern city of Minneapolis where Renee Nicole Good was gunned down by an immigration agent Wednesday lies less than a mile from the site of another slaying that shook ...
After power returned to southwest Berlin, Mayor Kai Wegner is facing pressure over taking a tennis break during the first hours of what turned out to be the longest blackout in the German capital's po...
Pensions, migration and conscription will continue to dominate domestic politics in Germany this year. Above all, the focus will be on how the far-right AfD fares in upcoming state elections in the fo...
xAI's Grok is removing clothing from pictures of people without their consent following this week's rollout of a feature that allows X users to instantly edit any image using the bot without needing t...
Syrian authorities announced a 13-hour curfew and said the arrest of 21 members of the Alawite community in Latakia. The city is a bastion of Syria's Alawite minority, of which former President Bashar...
The demonstrations, which were sparked by anger over the rising cost of living, have been met with a crackdown by Iran's Islamic regime. Donald Trump has said the US will hit Iran "very hard" if prote...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Shaun Weiss posted on social media offering help to Tylor Chase. ✓ Tylor Chase appeared on the Nickelodeon series Ned’s D...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Monday's papers include a warning from the government's social mobility commissioner ✓ Sir Keir lacks a clear str...
As Iran's nationwide protests increase the pressure on Iran’s civilian government and its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Nadia Massih is pleased to welcome Dr. Ammar Maleki, Director/Founder o...
A powerful visual timeline showcasing the pivotal events that reshaped our global landscape throughout the year....
📋 Key Facts ✓ The town is divided between two states. ✓ It is at the heart of America's abortion debate. ✓ ...