François Picard welcomes Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Director of Iran Human Rights NGO. He offers a rare quantified data-driven-account of fatalities in the current Irani...
Playing a long game paid off with the Soviet Union and a similar trajectory of regime collapse could come in Tehran...
Countries that once saw American success as their own now view the US as an adversary and Beijing as a model...
A Washington Post review of videos from Iran posted online of recent protests illustrates how widely violence has spread....
Tehran went from ‘halal internet’ to near-total blackout but activists have smuggled in Starlink devices to get information out...
Schools across parts of northern Nigeria started reopening on January 12, after months of closure triggered by the abduction of hundreds of students in November 2025. The move follows a circular fro...
The Ukrainian president has repeatedly called on the country's allies to bolster its defence systems to protect its critical energy infrastructure amid ongoing Russian attacks....
Qatar has confirmed “the departure of certain personnel from Al Udeid Air Base” due to current regional tensions, after reports that the US military is evacuating a part of its key base as Washington ...
War-related violence in Ukraine killed 2,514 civilians and injured 12,142 last year, a 31% rise in the number of victims from 2024, a UN monitor said....
One of the smallest members of the EU now holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. The Cypriot government wants to promote European autonomy over the next six months....
The ministry estimates as many as 1.5 million Russians have taken part in the full-scale invasion, about half of them having served on the front line....
Moldova's president Maia Sandu recently stated in a podcast that she would vote in favor of her country joining Romania in the event of a referendum. Her comments have caused outrage....
A Brazilian au pair is testifying against her former employer and lover in a double homicide case that she says was part of an elaborate scheme to get rid of the man’s wife...
Last week, President Donald Trump signed a memorandum ordering the withdrawal of the United States from 66 international organisations as they "no longer serve American interests," the White House sai...
A Ukrainian soldier fires a Javelin anti-tank missile. Dmytro Smolienko via Reuters Connect NATO's secretary general said up to 25,000 Russian soldiers are being killed in Ukraine each month. Mark Rut...
Talks are set to take place today between Danish and US officials over the future of Greenland, following remarks by Donald Trump suggesting the Danish territory should become part of the United State...
The Tempest fires into the night sky in this video provided by Ukraine's Air Command Central. Screenshot via Facebook/Ukraine Air Command Central Ukraine has deployed an off-road buggy mounted with gu...
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...
Enrolment at Harvard for Chinese students rose in the autumn from a year earlier, even as the Donald Trump administration moved to rein in visas for them and limit foreign enrolment and funding at the...
Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao is winding up its operations in Canada by the end of this month, marking the closure of all newsrooms run by the city’s major print publications in the North American coun...