On 29 September, after a Houthi missile aimed at Tel Aviv was intercepted by Israeli air defence, Israeli fighter jets ...

The slide on the screen showed several skinny, dark Filipino men lined up, displaying their sacred wound, the kidney scar, long as a sabre slice across their convex torsos. More than 150 ...

Far from singular You might ask why the UN is to blame when the root causes of each of these failures lies elsewhere – generally with global superpowers and most frequently Western ones. The WHO’s ...

I was born in 1965, the year the plastic bag was invented. During my childhood, in a boom city in central India, I remember plastic bags were still relatively rare. Only the more expensive shops gave ...

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G eorgetown, the capital city of Guyana, sits at the meeting-point of the Demerara River and the Atlantic Ocean. At dusk, men fish from a narrow concrete embankment that juts out beyond the land, ...

A sanitation worker holds the device being used to track them. The Municipal Corporation in Chandigarh pays a 22,044 USD per month to rent the watches. ASMA HAFIZ O n a cold November morning, in the ...

It’s three months since the start of the civil society protests against the regime of Daniel Ortega – the once respected leader of the Sandinistas who overthrew the Somoza dynasty dictatorship that ...

T he Bengal famine stands as one of the single most horrific atrocities to have occurred under British colonial rule. From 1943 to 1944, more than three million Indians died of starvation and ...

Forty per cent of Earth’s ice-free surface is now dedicated to agriculture and represents the planet’s largest biome. Many millions more hectares are to be brought into production by 2050, especially ...

There are estimated to be some three million migrants and refugees in Libya, mostly Sub-Saharans. They wait and work toward their passage to Europe in a country which now has three governments – one ...

March-April 2024 South Africa: 30 Years Later Thirty years on from the end of apartheid, South Africa is in the headlines for prosecuting Israel at the International Court of Justice. As elections ...