Israel Is Officially Annexing the West Bank
A quiet bureaucratic maneuver by Netanyahu’s government has begun transferring control over the occupied territory from military to civilian leadership—violating international law.
With their livelihoods threatened and the state stretched thin, agricultural workers are taking demining into their own hands.
They got food, fado, and sossegado. Also, the Inquisition.
Behind closed doors in western Ukraine, the devastating impact of the distant war becomes clear.
French cops have gotten more heavy-handed than anywhere else in Europe.
The government backed down, much to Russia’s chagrin, but it could reintroduce a reviled law.
The war’s legacy is 20 years of broken hopes and dreams. This government must do better.
Managua’s crackdown on free expression is entering a new phase.
Tbilisi looks to crack down, Moscow-style, on NGOs and free expression.
Most of the country wants the government to do more for Indigenous Australians. So why is a proposal to achieve that so fraught?
Activists argue the struggles for state transparency and national liberation are one and the same.
Compromises are condemning the continent’s climate goals to failure—and eliciting blowback.
Two years after the military coup, many communities are providing their own public services and making the case for federalism.
Stirring sectarian tensions in the country’s poorest province is a dangerous game.
Like other rich countries, France is trying to go gray and stay solvent—and the French aren’t buying it.
“We have no right to ask others to help us if we are not prepared to defend ourselves,” Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said.
Nongovernmental organizations have the potential to undermine authoritarian governance, which must be why they face widespread crackdowns around the world.
NGOs are essential to Venezuelan society. A new law may lead to their collapse.