Massacre in Tadamon: how two academics hunted down a Syrian war criminal
n a spring morning three years ago, a new recruit to a loyalist Syrian militia was handed a laptop belonging to one of Bashar al-Assad’s most feared security wings. He…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is fracturing the delicate peace in the Arctic
The Arctic was once an oasis of international cooperation. Russia’s invasion brought it to a halt. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is rippling throughout the world, and some of the strongest…
2 million children risk starving to death in Horn of Africa: U.N. aid chief
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday that close to 2 million children risk starving to death as the Horn of Africa faces one of its…
Why More Arab Israelis Are Joining the March of the Living at Auschwitz
Despite skepticism from Arab and Jewish friends alike, groups of Israeli Arabs have flown to Poland for the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony: ‘How can we coexist with Jews if we…
Solomon Islands tells Japan it will not allow China military bases
TOKYO (Reuters) - Solomon Islands Prime Minister Mannaseh Sogavare told a visiting Japanese delegation on Tuesday that he had no intention of allowing China to build military bases in his…
Extractive projects cause irreparable harm to indigenous cultures, languages, lives, speakers tell Permanent Forum 
The explosive growth of extractive operations around the world often plays out on indigenous people’s lands without their consent, causing irreparable harm to their livelihoods, cultures, languages and lives, speakers…
UN condemns ‘horrific’ surge of violence in South Sudan 
Additional peacekeepers have been deployed to Leer county, South Sudan, following a surge of violence, including rapes, gang rapes, beheadings, burning civilians alive, and attacks on humanitarians, the UN Mission…
Digging Up the History of the Nuclear Fallout Shelter
For 75 years, images of bunker life have reflected the shifting optimism, anxieties and cynicism of the Atomic Age The Russian invasion of Ukraine isn’t the first conflict to unfold on social…
Interview: ‘Era-defining’ war in Ukraine impacts WFP operations in South Sudan
Nearly eight million people in South Sudan are facing severe levels of food insecurity at a time when the cost of staple items and fuel have shot up due to…
New Ebola outbreak declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The health authorities of the African nation declared a new outbreak of Ebola after a case was confirmed in Mbandaka, a city in the north-western Equateur Province, the World Health…