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Global Opinion Archive 2022

What the IDF will face in the next phase of the Gaza war: The Spiderweb Nightmare of tunnels, even more desperately defended

Ukraine wives ask how much longer, after fatigue sets in from 2 years of war

Reuters reports

Freed Israeli hostages tell of Hamas beatings and death threats while in captivity

Reuters reports

In China's coal country, it's full steam ahead with new coal-fired power stations, despite climate pledges

Reuters reports

Can a climate change conference in an oil state change anything?

The energy dilemma: How fast can the world transition to renewable energy?

Trump says he's only pretending to have dementia

Biden is 'scrambling for support' after plummeting approval ratings

By The Young Turks (TYT claims to be the world's biggest online news source)

Middle East correspondent predicts that Biden is 'finished' because of his unconditional support of Israel

Al Jazeera opinion

Israel has arrested almost as many Palestinians as it released during the truce

Al Jazeera reports

What are the chances of this week's UN climate summit being able to save the planet? Answer: Not good

Editorial The Guardian

WHO warns that more could die from untreated diseases in Gaza than were killed by the bombing

Highlights from the hostage release, and insights into the Israeli prison system of control

PBS Democracy Now

What are the details, exactly, of US military assistance to Israel?

The Turkish public broadcaster, TRT World, reports

What is the mood within Israel about the war with Gaza?

The hawks currently rule the roost. Al Jazeera reports

Less than a day is left of the Gaza truce: What are the prospects?

Al Jazeera reports

Today is Call to Earth Day

There is no Planet B

What is Israel's military strategy for the next phase of the Gaza war? (Is there one?)

Sky News reports

Today is the last day of the Gaza truce (according to the original agreement.) Is this the lull before the storm (again?)

Targeting the messenger to kill the message

By Counterpunch

Netanyahu is not only fighting Hamas, but he's also fighting for his own survival

Reuters reports

What's happening in Israel's West Bank?

Al Jazeera reports

Even when playing, Palestinian children become violent because they copy the violence they see around them

Al Jazeera reports

The war crimes committed by both sides in the Hamas Israel war

Al Jazeera interviews Amnesty International

Biden seeks to expand Israeli access to the US weapons stockpile: The escalation continues

Al Jazeera reports

After the truce ends, what comes next in Gaza?

It ws too good to be true: Hamas delays hostage release, accusing Israel of breaking truce deal

The battle for narrative supremacy

Al Jazeera The Listening Post

Israel faces growing problems in its war with Gaza

FRANCE24 reports

The Gaza ceasefire: what are the chances that it might work?

DW News reports

Washington's looming Middle East quagmire

By Foreign Affairs

Analysis: How to enforce the Israel Hamas truce

Al Jazeera reports

Failing against Russia: Can Ukraine survive the war?

DW News reports

The war of words: BBC journalists accuse the broadcaster of bias in coverage of the Gaza Israeli war

Al Jazeera reports

Israeli military shows off more tunnels under Al-Shifa hospital and admits it 'sometimes makes mistakes'

CNN News18 reports

Is Israel losing the social media war?

TRT World reports

The deep moral dilemma at the heart of the Israeli-Hamas hostage deal

Israel has plenty of prisoners to choose from about which ones to release in its hostage swap with Hamas

Al Jazeera reports. See more about Israel's treatment of prisoners at https://reliefweb.int/

The plight of female Palestinian prisoners

The Gaza water crisis

The Wall Street Journal reports

West risks being complicit in Israeli war crimes, warn Arab and Muslim foreign ministers

The Guardian reports

Why Biden won't do more to restrain Netanyahu

The coming conflagration: The UN warns that the world is racing towards well past its warming limit

Associated Press reports

WHO declares loneliness a global public health concern

The Guardian reports

Gun deaths in America: The majority are suicides

The Guardian reports

Billionaires emit a million times more carbon than the average person

The Guardian reports

Stoop to conquer: How old is too old to govern America?

UN leader bemoans 'unparalleled' killing of civilians in Gaza

Al Jazeera reports

Israeli raid on Al Shifa hospital questioned following lack of hard evidence of Hamas command centre

PBS Democracy Now

Post war plans for Gaza?

Hindustan Times reports

'This is just the beginning' Yemeni rebels hijack 'Israeli' ship and Iran mocks Israeli 'failure'

America's far right extremists are regrouping in Idaho

Israel claims to have found a Hamas tunnel after raid on Al-Shifa hospital

Comparing the wars in Gaza and Ukraine: At least the hospitals are still operating in Ukraine

Reuters reports

What it's like for Palestinians living in the West Bank

Al Shifa Hospital now a death zone according to the UN

BBC News reports

Trying to sort out the living and the dead in Gaza

A Reuters special report

'These are biblical lands promised to us' Jewish settlers in the West Bank hope that the Gaza war will help their claims

The Guardian reports

The death count in Gaza: Fact or fiction?

BBC News reports

How hospitals became 'fair game' in Gaza

The Listening Post, Al Jazeera

More eyewitness accounts from Gaza

Including an interview with the Independent journalist based in Cairo, Sharif Abdel Kouddous, who is talking to PBS Democracy Now

Fighting the information war in Gaza

DW News reports

What the BBC International Editor has to say about the Israeli Gaza war

Israel allows 2 trucks of fuel per day into Gaza as UN says starvation is now imminent

The crisis in American politics: Is Biden too old and Trump too troubled? What are the chances of a third party challenge in the 2024 Presidential election?

Reuters reports

Israeli information about the war in Gaza is now being questioned

Fact check: The Palestinian nurse claiming Hamas occupation of Gaza's Al Shifa hospital

FRANCE24 reports

'Ridiculous' and a 'mockery' that the host of the next UN climate conference is planning some of the world's biggest oil and gas expansion projects

The Guardian reports

Do Israeli images of weapons prove claims of a Hamas command centre at the Al Shifa hospital?

FRANCE24 reports

Photos: No escape for the children of Gaza caught in the crossfire

Reuters reports

"Erase all of Gaza": War unleashes incendiary rhetoric in Israel

New York Times reports

Israeli hospital raid is a 'war crime plain and simple' Legal expert

Al Jazeera reports

What CNN saw inside hospital with Israeli military

Israeli military are now inside Al-Shifa hospital, hunting for Hamas

BBC reports. This analysis posted at 12.43 GMT, 15 November, 2023

US backs claim that Hamas uses hospitals for military cover

Reuters reports

Palestinian rights groups file genocide lawsuit against Biden and senior White House staff

Al Jazeera reports

Has Israel become a liability to the US and the greater Middle East?

Al Jazeera reports

Does the terrorist organisation Hamas have bases in or under Gaza hospitals?

DW News reports

Photos: From both sides of the Israel Gaza tragedy

Associated Press

"We are being exterminated" Hear Dr Hammam Alloh's interview just before he was killed in Gaza

PBS Democracy Now

Arab Summit calls for immediate end to the Gaza war, but stops short of Iran's call to ban oil and other imports to Israel

Reuters reports

How the US (still) supports Israel

Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war, don't they? Yes, but not in Gaza, apparently

Associated Press reports

Who are the Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and why are they living on Palestinian land?

Al Jazeera reports

The man who shrouds the dead in Gaza

Al Jazeera reports

What's happening in Gaza hospitals?

DW News reports

'A child is killed every 10 minutes in Gaza', according to the World Health Organisation

Weeks into the war in Gaza, how much closer is Israel to achieving its objectives?

'You don't think there can be a Hamas 2.0?' Will violence breed more violence?

MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan on the problem with ongoing revenge

Tensions turn deadly in the West Bank between Jewish settlers and Palestinians

ABC News reports

'We will bomb all the hospitals. We kill them all. We are the centre of the world now'

Channel 4 News Middle East Eye

How much support does Hamas have inside Gaza?

CBN News reports

The next phase of the Israel-Gaza war: Destroying the Hamas tunnels

Al Jazeera reports

The Palestinians are being taught a lesson: This time in Gaza hospitals where there are no more supplies of anaesthetics

Reuters reports

Why Biden's support for Israel could cost him the next election

Killing the Journalists: Deaths of journalists in Gaza now the highest number in the shortest time in the history of armed conflict

Al Jazeera reports

UN human rights chief says both Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes

'We need to stop thinking there are military solutions to political problems'

The Guardian opinion

Nuclear energy is back on the global agenda: So how many new nuclear power stations are planned? And what are the politics, practicalities, and latest developments?

A DW Documentary

What would happen if Israel took over security responsibility for Gaza, as it wants to do?

Violence is on the increase in the Occupied West Bank: What's happening?

Al Jazeera reports

Rising opposition in America over US support for Israel

The Hill reports

Do Iran and its allies pose an existential threat to Israel?

'Is it too much to ask that Palestinians be considered as humans'?

The Guardian opinion

Thirty-six journalists killed so far in Gaza: Are they simply the victims of war, or are they being targeted?

Novara Media reports. Novara Media is a donation-based, part time YouTube broadcaster

Parts of the world are turning against Israel's war on Gaza, and many Israelis don't understand why

The Israeli military response: Tactically justified? Righteous retribution? Revenge? Whatever, journalists are doing their best to report on the murderous mess that is now Gaza

Gaza is now a 'children's graveyard' according to the UN: The devastating effect of war on children

The Trump fraud trial and the wider political context

'This is not a political rally' judge tells a combative and rambling Trump in court

Death toll in Gaza reaches 10,000 including over 4000 children

The Guardian reports

The real world collides with fantasy worlds in Trump's court cases

MSNBC's Jen Psaki reports

Understanding Mexico's Day of the Dead

Hear what Bernie Sanders thinks should happen in the Israel Hamas war

Will rich countries follow through with pledge to pay poor countries for damage caused by climate change?

The Guardian reports

State Department official resigns over US arms sales to Israel

PBS Democracy Now

How are your investments going? Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway lost $12.8 billion last quarter, but that's OK, because his stock portfolio is worth $353 billion

Associated Press reports

The precarious and peculiar relationship between China and Australia 'Frenemies who need each other'

Scenes of life and death from the Israel Gaza war

Associated Press photographers report

Ukraine forces battle exhaustion as they face a second winter in the trenches

Radio Free Europe reports

The Gaza bombing campaign is also costing Israel

Analysis by Zoran Kusovac, Al Jazeera

The other war: The culture war over Disney's remake of Snow White

What? There's a war involving this fairy tale? Sadly, yes. It's America's Woke War. The Guardian reports from the front lines

Five new realities after four weeks of Israel-Hamas war

By Jeremy Bowen, BBC International Editor in Southern Israel

US approves nearly $48.5 billion in aid to Israel

Associated Press reports

Another day in Gaza

Associated Press reports

The legendary and cautionary tale of 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried, found guilty of FTX fraud

The Guardian reports

MSNBC examines accusations of genocide against Israel and Hamas

Commentator Mehdi Hasan is an Oxford-educated British-American best selling author of Indian descent

The global debt crisis and its dangers: Pakistan as a case study

CNA Insider reports

What's causing the current merger mania in the luxury fashion industry?

'There's a smarter way to eliminate Hamas'

This week in the Middle East

Reuters reports

Get rid of the legal guardrails: Team Trump strategy for second term

Could it all come tumbling down? The latest on Trump's $250 million fraud trial

New international sporting event proposed where doping would be legal

These would be called the Enhanced Games. CNN reports

Media Freedom Group accuses Hamas and Israel of war crimes, and reports the killing of 34 journalists

Associated Press News reports

For those who missed Halloween

Selection of PX from the New York subway from The Guardian

King Charles' Kenya trip: A stately royal visit, yes, but the history of British colonial abuse will be difficult to ignore and sweep under the carpet

France 24 reports

Next UN climate conference COP28 will be hosted in the UAE by Sultan Al Jaber

Do you think the Sultan will help reduce carbon emissions? He's Director General of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Also, the GDP of the UAE was $498 billion in 2023, mainly from oil related products

The other armed confrontation: This time against China in the Philippines

Wall Street Journal reports

The price of gold has jumped since the start of the Israel Hamas war

Are there three different sides fighting the Israel Hamas war? Israel, Hamas and the United States?

MSNBC's Joy Reid calls out all three and asks some hard questions

Children are increasingly at risk as the Gaza offensive intensifies

Brutality of the Hamas attack is seen at Israeli morgue

Human rights lawyer is arrested in Iran at funeral of teenage girl who died after the 'Metro incident'

By Daily Motion TV

Israel is surrounded by enemies

How might this affect the war in Gaza?

What's the likelihood of the Israel Hamas war expanding into a regional conflict?

Commentary by William Spaniel of University of Pittsburgh

Mission impossible? Biden's two-state solution to the Israel Hamas conflict

AP News reports

Rich countries and their responsibility for causing climate change.

Should they pay reparations to poorer countries?

Why misinformation on the Israel-Hamas war is a growing concern

Reporting the war from inside Gaza

How Germany is dealing with the European migrant crisis: it's introducing draft laws to step up deportations

DW News reports

Why it's so hard for Israel to destroy Hamas tunnels in Gaza

The Wall Street Journal reports

Scenes of sorrow and despair on both sides of the Israel-Hamas border

Associated Press reports

Why are so many of Trump's supposed loyalists now flipping for plea-bargain deals?

Is this about avoiding jail time? The Guardian reports

Iran may not want a full-blown war with Israel, but it might get dragged into one

US politicians duck for cover (again) over gun control after the Maine mass shooting

MSNBC reports on the reaction of politicians to the latest mass shooting in Maine

Families of Israeli hostages face unbearable trauma

Israel's battle for the moral high ground: Fallout from the Guterres, UN, Gaza clash of opinions

Al Jazeera opinion

'A ticking global debt bomb' The next global debt crisis (Not another one?)

"Beyond worst case scenario" The situation on the ground now in Gaza

What to expect from the new US House Speaker: "There's a lot to fear"

The Guardian reports

China's great leap backwards

New Yorker magazine

Tunnel warfare expert on the challenges ahead for Israel in Gaza

Killing the messengers: At least 21 journalists killed so far in the Gaza war

UN Chief says there are 'clear violations of humanitarian law' in Gaza

World reacts to Israel showing brutal body cam footage to combat 'denial' of Hamas violence

How far would the US go to defend Israel?

Israel ramps up strikes on Gaza despite discord over invasion strategy

Why Americans are relocating to Mexico City

How to steal and then lose 1billion in Bitcoin

Kibbutz survivor tells how she and her daughters survived the Hamas attack

Wall Street Journal reports

The race to bring down the world's greatest trader: Steven Cohen

How to legally kill someone: Imprison them in solitary confinement without charges or convictions (indefinitely) and then don't process the case. This is the extraordinary saga of Julian Assange

Double Down News

Gaza bombing "End this god-awful nightmare" says UN

Fighting the fog of war

Israel Hamas war: The world on edge

CBS News Special

Why no one wants Palestinian refugees

Associated Press reports

Pictures of Gaza children caught in the crossfire of war

Reuters reports

The stakes for Biden's Israeli visit couldn't be higher

The Guardian reports

Each side blames the other for the Gaza hospital attack. What does the evidence show?

Scenes of the devastation caused by the Gaza Hospital explosion

Remember the war in Ukraine? Yes, it's still continuing. Here's a retrospective in pictures after 600 days of war

Reuters shows the record

Do you believe stories from war zones? Here's a fact check about Hamas cutting off the heads of Israeli babies

Al Jazeera reports

500 killed in strike on Gaza hospital

Senior Hamas leader Dr Basem Naim claims there were no plans to kill Israelis during the Gaza breakout

Harrowing images from Israeli border towns attacked by Hamas

Reuters reports

How much do Palestinians support Hamas?

Not much, according to this opinion piece from CNN

What the Israel Hamas war means for the world

Time for Hamas to pay the price: UK Israeli ambassador

Israel's evacuation order is 'nothing but cover for ethnic cleansing'

Opinion by A Jazeera

Who's behind the Israel-Gaza disinformation and hate campaign online?

Inside the Hamas tunnel network underneath Gaza

France24 reports

Is Israel losing its value as an ally to the West?

If Israel can't protect its own border, and if it needs to keep killing Palestinians while turning another million into refugees, well, what sort of an ally is it?

Australia votes 'no' to a referendum proposing that indigenous people should be recognised in Australia's Constitution

BBC News reports

The Fox News perspective on the Hamas Israel war

The US is moving quickly to boost Israel's military. Here's a look at what America is providing:

Associated Press reports

Iran warns Israel to 'stop before it's too late'

Al Jazeera reports

Can Israel's ground invasion of Gaza achieve its aims?

'Israel is walking into a trap'

The Atlantic reports

Bye bye BiBi? Can Netanyahu survive?

Al Jazeera opinion

Israel's hostage nightmare

Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts

Associated Press reports

The morgue at Gaza's biggest hospital is overflowing as Israel's bombardment intensifies

Associated Press reports

White House walks back Biden's claims he saw children beheaded by Hamas

Al Jazeera reports

Fake news about Israeli children is emerging from the Hamas-Israeli war

Why the BBC won't call Hamas militants 'terrorists'

Israel's retaliation inside Gaza

Graphic details emerge from Israeli villages hit by Hamas

CBS News reports

Is Netanyahu drawing the US into a war with Iran?

The wider, geopolitical context of the Israeli-Gaza war, according to Al Jazeera opinion

Deaths top 1,600 (so far) in Hamas-Israel conflict

MSNBC reports on the latest developments

The Israel-Gaza war: What's happening and why?

Al Jazeera reports

'I am too young don't take me' Israel's hostage crisis

Report by MSNBC

'Murderous Putin is sure of his own impunity. He could not be more wrong'

The Guardian opinion

In the midst of war, Benjamin Netanyahu 'is a liability who can only make things worse. He must go'

The Guardian opinion

Report: Iran helped Hamas plan attacks on Israel

Veritas reports

A shaken Israel is forced to confront its eternal dilemma

The New York Times reports

Why the big car companies are losing to China

DW News reports

Laos: One of the poorest countries in SE Asia, where protestors are shot and people are afraid

Was Israeli intelligence compromised?

Former CIA Director talks to MSNBC

The reason behind Washington DC's current spike in murders? Racism

This is according to an opinion writer for Al Jazeera

Hamas attack shocks Israel, but what comes next?

Civilians will pay the price for the biggest challenge to Israel since 1973

The Guardian reports

The key to understanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict (hatred?)

Al Jazeera reports

Israel attack: What is Hamas? And other questions

World Bank reform 'will remain elusive' until inequality is addressed

Al Jazeera opinion

Putin's latest nuclear threat

How an AI chatbot encouraged a Star Wars fanatic to try and kill the Queen

How much can we blame the chatbot, or was this simply a very delusional young man? The Independent reports

Cocaine and grenades? Putin's Prigozhin plane crash theory is ridiculed by patriotic bloggers

Reuters reports

Want to join the new South Florida private golf club? The membership fee will cost you $1 million

Why the USA is 'tickling the dragon's tail'

This is the name for advanced testing of nuclear weapons underground, without causing an explosion. Associated Press reports

A corporate zombie apocalypse warning for 2024

Reuters reports

The significance of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

This year's prize awarded to the imprisoned Iranian activist, Narges Mohammadi. BBC reports

An estimated 43 million children have been forcibly displaced by climate disasters over the last 6 years

Report by The Guardian

How Zelensky is trying to grapple with Western war fatigue

In case you're undecided, should you charter or buy a SuperYacht?

NautiStyles looks at the TRINITY SuperYacht as an example: What do you get for $295,000 p/w charter, or $24,950,000 to purchase?

Nobel Peace Prize guesswork focuses on the Ukraine war, protests in Iran and climate change

Associated Press reports

Putin's waiting game might be starting to pay off

How long can the US House remain frozen without a Speaker?

DW News reports

Germany: Between the need for foreign workers and growing anti-immigration sentiment

DW News reports

Who ya gonna call when you need a new US House speaker? Well, Donald Trump of course

Yes, that's who some Republicans are proposing. NBC reports

How do you keep supplying Ukraine with armaments when Republicans cut funding? Simple. You fill the gap with munitions seized from Iran.

Yes, this is how the Biden administration is getting around the problem. CNN reports

Following the firing of US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, what happens next? Can America still govern itself?

DW News reports

Why Putin wants a 'Forever War'

"They're just meat" Russia deploys punishment battalions in echo of Stalin

Reuters reports

Will Trump be punished? 'America's global credibility depends on that'

Al Jazeera reports

"God help us" (and also help the United States?) Former Trump chief of staff John Kelly has scathing opinions about his former boss

What Ukraine needs most: ATACMS

These are long range, faster, more manoeuvrable ground to ground missiles. The Wall Street Journal reports

Money to help Ukraine? Western electoral politics now stand in the way

Will donor fatigue be Putin's best weapon? BBC News reports

'Iran can produce nukes within two weeks'

This is what has been most feared in the Middle East.

Russia to begin nuclear drills for military and civilians

Things to know about the Nobel Prizes

Associated Press News

Do you think cannabis should be legalised? Well, Thailand is thinking about criminalising it again

Pardoned Russian convicts are now leaving a trail of violence back in their hometowns

Sky News reports

The race for lithium: The new white gold

Lithium is a key component in the new generation of batteries, and the US and China are in a race to secure supplies. The Wall Street Journal reports

The Ig Nobel prize winners, 2023

The 2023 Nobel Prizes will be announced soon: What are the difficulties involved in deciding the winners?

Tensions are continuing to rise in the South China Sea: Why this matters to the rest of the world

The other front-line: This one against China in the Philippines

Wall Street Journal reports

America's debt crisis (again)

Bloomberg reports

Migrants are being raped at the Mexican border while awaiting entry into the US

Reuters reports

The Biden impeachment hearing was 'a fishing expedition - but no-one took the bait'

The Guardian reports

Should you accept financial advice from the growing army of 'Finfluencers'?

The cost of operating a SuperYacht

The Monaco Yacht Show 2023 concludes on 30 September. $US4.5 billion worth of yachts are on display. The Wall Street Journal looks at the cost of maintaining and operating a SuperYacht

This year's Alternative Nobel Prize Winners

"Corruption is as American as apple pie"

Opinion piece from Al Jazeera

What effect willl Trump's New York fraud ruling have on his business empire?

Reuters reports

The booming demand for expensive champagnes

So what are the rich celebrating? The Guardian reports

Why are so many people fleeing Venezuela? More than 250,000 have come to the US in the last year

CBS News reports

Is migration creating a 'fortress' Europe?

Channel 4 News investigates

The 'journey like passing through hell' as migrants surge into Southern Mexico

Does Trump exaggerate? Well, yes, by a factor of $billions, according to a New York judge who finds Trump liable for fraud

Apart from the (seemingly serious) matter of truth, the other issue is the politics involved in whether or not Trump is fit to be President again

The fog of war: Russian Black Sea commander seen in video after Ukraine claimed it killed him

The danger of believing either side in a war: Al Jazeera reports

Big banks continue to profit from fossil fuel companies while the rest of the world burns

The Guardian reports

Trade in sanctioned oil is booming while the US turns a blind eye

The Guardian reports

Ukrainian women struggle with the hidden war crime of sexual violence

The Guardian reports

Hollywood writers are 'near the end' of their strike. What happens next?

Al Jazeera reports

Iraq war torture survivors and the question of compensation, still unanswered

By Human Rights Watch

How do we raise trillions of dollars to fight the climate crisis? 'The answer is staring us in the face'

This is according to an opinion piece in The Guardian

Trump's solution to America's migrant problems? To implement the largest deportation in American history

Forbes Breaking News

How big of a crisis is the flow of migrants from North Africa to Europe? Can it be solved?

DW News reports

The biggest threat now faced by Ukraine is western donor fatigue

BBC News reports

Rising sea levels caused by climate change are causing the island nation of Tuvalu to gradually submerge

Island nations at the UN blame rich nations for climate inaction

Reuters reports

The world's top 3 nuclear powers are expanding their nuclear test sites. How concerned should we be?

A record number of migrants head towards the Mexico-US border

This is a picture storyline by Reuters

The US is now sending long range missiles to Ukraine: How might these change the war?

Wall Street Journal reports

The morality of assassinations during war

By the UK's The Telegraph

Why are we being poisoned every day?

Ask a lobbyist, according to George Monbiot of The Guardian

All talk, no trousers by the world's biggest polluters

The world's biggest polluters won't attend the UN Climate Summit. What hope is there?

Who was the Sikh activist assassinated in Canada, and now the subject of tension between India and Canada?

The Associated Press reports

Six Portuguese youths take 32 nations to the European court over climate change

The adults aren't having much success, so maybe youth can do better. But it will be a David versus Goliath battle

One of those unspoken questions about the UN: Is the world governable?

The Associated Press tries to answer

How Rupert Murdoch built his global media empire with the help of politicians who needed him

At the height of his power, Murdoch could, and did, use his media empire to influence elections. This is a Frontline investigation about how one man could amass such power.

Rupert Murdoch steps down from his media empire and hands over to his son, Lachlan

Murdoch built one of the world's biggest media empires and was (still is?) a force in conservative politics

The Sikh activist's assassination in Canada and tensions with India: Why the rest of the west would like to sweep this unfortunate incident under the carpet

Yes, it's called politics, and a desire to prop up India as a bulwark against China and Russia. BBC News reports

Murder and sexual violence in the Indian state of Manipur: Is India really a progressive democracy?

BBC News reports

More than 19,000 Ukrainian children 'taken illegally' by Russia

Al Jazeera reports

Six 'unforgettable' moments at the UN General Assembly

Al Jazeera chooses six of the most memorable (notorious?) speeches to the UN Assembly. And yes, one of them is by ex-President Trump (are you surprised?)

Murder, torture, exile: Russia's foreign agents

The UK's Sun newspaper investigation

The latest weapons and defence trends

The London Arms Fair 2023. Report by The Sun newspaper

"You cannot give $6 billion to a terrorist state"

The Iran-US prisoner swap and the spectre of prisoners for profit. The Hill reports

A day in the life of the American dream

Al Jazeera opinion

Trying to get consensus at the UN

Good luck with that one. Al Jazeera reports

The migrant crisis in New York City

Yes, even NYC. Fox News reports

South Korea is now the world's fastest growing arms exporter. What does this mean for the western military alliance?

Wall Street Journal reports

World leaders meet in New York this week to discuss sustainability goals: What are their chances of making progress (instead of only talking about it)?

France24 provides a preview

What this $100 billion ghost city reveals about China's property crisis

Wall Street Journal reports

The refugee crisis in Europe: the waves keep coming

France24 reports

Americans who don't want the US to help Ukraine

Conservative talk-back radio PBD

The entertainment industry 'has questions to answer' following allegations against comedian Russell Brand

California sues oil giants for downplaying risks posed by fossil fuels

Reuters reports

The other flood in North Africa: the thousands of refugees trying to escape war, climate disasters and poverty, and now overwhelming European destinations

Reuters reports

Why China could be the winner in the Ukraine war

The Economist reports

Winning the long war in Ukraine

The Economist reports

How droughts and climate change are adding to the cost of transit through the Panama Canal

The Wall Street Journal reports

The disasters in Libya have also opened the floodgates to diseases

DW News reports

Honest government ad: net zero emissions by 2050

Sorry about the bad language, but at least she speaks clearly

Climate Doomers: Are they on to something?

DW Planet reports

How do oil companies spend their record profits?

CGIN Europe reports

Climate records are now 'unprecedented'

What happens when your local priest turns up at the detention centre to help torture you?

Yes, this actually happened during the 1970s military junta rule in Argentina. The BBC explains more

Why the FBI is still searching for Capitol rioters

BBC News reports

Hunter Biden: The struggles and scandals of the US President's son

BBC News reports

Ukraine ramps up its drone war against Russia

ABC News reports

The US wants to engage with North Korea but doesn't know how

How political chaos made the flood disaster in Libya much worse

Bodies are now being washed ashore in Libya. What caused the floods that killed so many thousands?

The Guardian reports

The biggest threat now is 'global authoritariansim'

This is according to Salman Rushdie, the award winning novelist. The Guardian reports

The dangers of protecting the environment: Murder and disappearances

The Philippines is now the deadliest country in Asia for eco-defenders, with 11 killed last year. Al Jazeera reports

What are the next objectives for Ukraine?

Forces News reports

Could the flood catastrophe in Libya have been avoided? Ten thousand people are still missing

DW News reports

America is now in a 'prolonged state of political violence'

Reuters reports

The complicated (and dirty?) politics behind the move to impeach President Biden.

Republicans move to set up an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. What are the charges?

Associated Press explains

Putin and Kim: Two friends in need (of ammunition?)

How much is an American worth? Biden agrees to release $6 billion in return for the freedom of 5 Americans in Iran

The Guardian reports

Can the dollar keep its dominance? The 'US needs to get its act together'

The answer could also depend on America's ability to fix its economic and political problems, according to The Guardian

Guyana openly revels in its oil wealth while the rest of the world aims (claims?) to phase out fossil fuels

Why the US won't pay its national debt

The US national debt is now just under $33 trillion. CNBC reports

Behind the facade: the British Royal Family links to slavery: Caribbean nations are now set to ask for reparations

The Guardian reports

G20 Leaders' Declaration: What was it?

And did it mean anything? DW News reports

Photos: Morocco mourns earthquake victims

Ominous warnings as world's climate crisis is spinning out of control

UN Secretary General says that "response is lacking in ambition, credibility and urgency." At the same time, the G20 nations are responsible for 80 per cent of global emissions

Banks are still pouring trillions into fossil fuel investment, report says

The Guardian reports

Does the G20 Summit serve any purpose?

Apart from posturing and photo-ops? Al Jazeera reports

In the US-China AI contest, the race is on to develop killer drones

Reuters special report

China's chatbot and its problem with censorship

BBC News reports

North Korea's new nuclear-armed submarine: How will this change regional and global politics?

The world has just become more unsafe

The G20 summit and what's really going on behind the scenes in India

Al Jazeera interviews Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy

The African coups - are they about ending neocolonialism, or are they simply bloody seizures of power by the military?

Al Jazeera opinion

"Sorry, Trumpers, no civil war in the US for 2024"

Al Jazeera opinion columnist

India is on the rise, while China is faltering. What does this mean for the rest of the world?

DW News reports

What's next for Africa after more and more countries stage coups?

Al Jazeera reports

Depleted uranium shells: The USA will provide these to Ukraine for its promised Abrams tanks. But this is controversial. What are depleted uranium rounds, and how do they work?

The Uk has already provided Ukraine with depleted uranium shells with its Challenger tanks. Forces News explains

Ukraine cyber-teams are fighting a hitech war on the front lines

BBC News reports

TikTok versus the British Museum

It's about an actress portraying a Chinese jade teapot 'captured' in the British Museum, and who tries to escape back home to China. This has racked up 270 million hits so far

How worrying is a Kim Jong Un-Putin alliance?

1.7 million children are trapped in commercial sexual exploitation

Chinese EVs make an impact at the Munich motor show. Are European car manufacturers falling behind?

DW News reports

China's youth unemployment problem

A record number of refugees are arriving in Europe

Invasive alien species are threatening native fauna, and are even the cause of some extinctions

Al Jazeera reports

Europe's most valuable company is now a Danish drug company that makes weight loss pills

Does this say something about obesity? CNN reports

Romance is not dead

How an Indian man turned his marriage proposal into a Bollywood production at the airport

Inside the US-China battle for chip supremacy - and why this is so important

It's no exaggeration that the results will influence our future. Al Jazeera reports

Namibia: A snapshot of Africa and its problems

Documentary by DW TV. DW, Deutsche Welle (German Wave) is a German state-owned broadcaster

OPEC and China are now working closely together: How might this threaten the existing balance of power?

InoTech ConFi reports

Inching towards genocide: Hindu mobs demolish Muslim homes and threaten more Muslim killings

Al Jazeera reports

Google Turns 25

It's been around for a quarter of a century! Al Jazeera looks at the world's top performing searches

The curse of colonialism: Should the former colonial power France share blame for the current crop of coups in Africa?

Biden is 'old' and Trump is 'corrupt' The latest US poll has ominous results for a possible 2024 rematch

Associated Press reports

'Canon-fodder' The ex-prisoners who chose to fight (and die) in Ukraine. Who were they?

Radio Liberty reports

"We are invisible" Kiev's 'Devils and Angels' eye Russian commanders one shot at a time

CRUX investigates

Prigozhin's life and death exposed rot in the Russian state

Al Jazeera Opinion columnist

Latest updates on the war in Ukraine

CRUX evaluates strategic gains for the week ending 4 September, 2023

Putin's influencers: The bloggers selling Russia's war

Some Republicans seek retribution for Trump indictments

Ukraine's counteroffensive: Is it finally starting to break through?

Bringing the war home to Russia with long range drones. How much of a game changer is this for Ukraine?

DW News reports

The season of putsch: The reason why coups have become so popular in Africa

Al Jazeera reports

Refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean are considered 'victims if they drown, and criminalized' if they reach Europe. This is the story of 3 boys imprisoned in Malta

Al Jazeera reports

China has dumped its US bonds and invested instead in 8,229 tons of gold

InoTech ConFi looks at the ramifications

What a doctor's death in a lift might tell us about Africa's debt crisis

The global human rights regime has collapsed

Al Jazeera opinion

Murder, torture and sexual violence are amongst thousands of Russian crimes against children, Ukraine says

Iceland gives the go-ahead to start killing whales again, but what's different is that the government now wants the killing to be faster

Reuters reports

Switch to renewables to reduce global warming? Nah. Not in China, where an average of 2 new coal plants are approved every week

The Guardian reports

Ukraine's months-long counteroffensive is at the crossroads

Al Jazeera reports

Nerves and patriotism in Moscow after 18 months of war

Saudi Arabia and sport

Is this connection about the love of sport, or the need for propaganda? DW News investigates

USA political violence is at its worst since the 1970s

Report by Reuters

Why is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch still a problem?

ScienceRecent reports

It seemed like a good idea at the time. But no longer. Brexit is proving to be disastrous for Britain

The hope is turning out to be hype. And there's no quick fix in sight.

Russia declines offer of international assistance to probe Prigozhin plane crash

Thus avoiding any transparency. Surprised? Reuters reports

Ron DeSantis's Florida is a 'dangerous and hostile' place for Black people

The Guardian reports

The great cancellation: Why megabucks TV shows are disappearing without trace

The Guardian reports

'Dying by the dozens every day' Ukraine losses climb

How long before a robot is doing your housework?

We are waiting... the BBC reports

UN says hundreds of thousands trafficked into SE Asian online scam centres

Al Jazeera reports

Is a global food crisis the new normal?

All Jazeera reports

Russia ramps up military spending as ruble plummets

Spiralling cost of war means growing economic pain for Russia

The post pandemic world is facing a gloomy stew of debt, trade wars and low productivity

Reuters reports

Reparations for slavery: Is an apology by descendants of slave owners, and a subsidy for research, enough compensation?

MSNBC explores this issue

Top 10 cheapest countries to live or retire

By Hotels and Cities

Top 15 most developed countries to live and work 2023

Ranked according to the UN's Human Development Index

This week's (bizarre) manoeuvring to win America's 2024 election

Extreme? Or normal for America? Washington Week with The Atlantic helps you decide

The unwanted Spanish kiss

Opinion from CNN

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the significance of India's moon landing

What do the new BRICS invitations mean for the Middle East and the balance of power?

Al Jazeera reports

Iran threatens Israel's nuke facilities with new drone

This is an ominous escalation in the nuclear tensions between Iran and Israel

Only in America. Mugshot of Trump could become 'the best selling t-shirt in history' as fans buy merch

Trump's sale of merch will also be helping pay for his legal expenses

What happens to those who oppose Putin?

Strange, exotic, and lethal accidents usually follow

The Trump mugshot

From the police files. The charges against Trump include racketeering. Does Trump look the part?

Putin finally breaks silence on Prigozhin plane crash

But Putin's comments don't answer ongoing speculation about the cause of the crash. The BBC reports

America is the richest country in the world, right?

Wrong! 61 percent of Americans say they live pay check to pay check. and the average household debt is nearly $100,000. CNBC reports on the daily struggle to survive in America

Yevgeny Prigozhin may have the last laugh from beyond the grave

This is the theory that the only law in force here is Newton's law

A very public execution in Russia

A jet plunging out of the sky sends an unmistakable message. Opinion by The Atlantic

More details are emerging about the death of Wagner Group boss Prigozhin

Death by accident, or death by Putin? Will we ever be sure? Probably not, but we can have reasonable suspicions. MSNBC reports

India's South Pole moon landing is big business for the global space race

India is only the fourth country to accomplish a soft landing on the moon, and the first at the moon's South Pole

Trump being Trump: Is that the problem?

Opinion by The Washington Post

22 countries, including Saudi Arabia, have applied to join BRICS. What would this mean for BRICS and the world?

How much closer are BRICS economies to being able to challenge US dominance?

Many other countries, including Saudi Arabia, want to join. BRICS can only keep on gaining in strength

How Canada's wildfires are heating the stratosphere

The prognosis is not good

China's high youth unemployment

This is symptomatic of deeper economic woes. China is the second-largest economy in the world, and China's economic problems also become the world's problems

How much can weapons like F-16s turn the tide of war in Ukraine?

How Ukraine has become one of the world's biggest minefields

Report by the Wall Street Journal

No Surrender: Report from the Ukraine front lines

Scripps News reports

Ukraine 'Sky Shield getting stronger' as allies supply coveted F-16s

Report by Al Jazeera

Trump has disqualified himself from holding public office again

Who says? Well, the American Constitution, according to an opinion piece in The Atlantic

Why Russia's moon mission failed, and what this means for Putin

iNews, United Kingdom

As Russian and Indian lunar landings approach, why is there a rush to the moon again?

The Washington Post reports

The world's plastic pollution problem, and Coca Cola

Investigation by Moconomy

What to expect from the 2023 BRICS summit? A BRICS goal is to try and dethrone the global dominance of the dollar. How successful will this summit be?

This report from Reuters

America's richest 10 percent are responsible for 40 percent of the country's climate-heating pollution

Israel brands Palestinian captive with Star of David: Report

Is this the latest way of stamping Israeli authority on Palestinians?

The sad and salutary tale of the Bored Ape Yacht Club

This is about the collapse of the NFT market, suing Sothebys, and celebrities

Pakistan's blasphemy laws

These can be a death sentence

Wildfires are now warming the stratosphere

What new threats will this cause?

Questioning the World Happiness Report

Why are so many countries at the top of the list rich, Western nations? Is the research data skewed?

The surgeons on their own front lines in Ukraine

The Witch Hunt factor

Looming Trump trials are throwing judges into an election maelstrom

'We are coming to kill you, so tread lightly, bitch'

Threats of violence over Trump trials have already begun

The world shed 3.5 million millionaires in 2022

Market losses drained wealth at the top

Abortion pills: US Appeals Court rules to restrict them

These are the widely used Mifepristone pills

Will Trump be punished? America's global credibility is on the line

Opinion from Al Jazeera

Hunter Biden's legal troubles

Is the son of the US President a political scapegoat, or a potential felon?

Inside the notorious Atlanta jail where Trump must check in

It's not up to the standard of Mar a Lago

Ukraine's military resources 'almost exhausted' according to Russia

Conservative billionaire Charles Koch is investing millions to 'move past Trump'

New Trump ad claims he is being attacked by 'rabid wolves'

Not one, but four criminal trials. How do they stack up?

The Wall Street Journal reports

How thermal imaging helps clear mines in Ukraine

Trump and 18 others charged with trying to overthrow election results in the state of Georgia

Trump is the first former President in US history to be charged with criminal offences. These 41 charges include racketeering. At this stage, it's impossible to predict the effect of these charges on Trump's reelection campaign and overall, on America. But BBC News clarifies the case so far

As US Republicans step up attacks on Hunter Biden, more questions are being asked about Jared Kushner's $billions from Saudi Arabia

This financing was negotiated while Kushner worked in the White House as advisor to Donald Trump. MSNBC reports

Women tell horror stories of rape in Sudan

More horror stories are emerging as more civilians flee

A strong whiff of desperation surrounds the Republican attempt to impeach Biden

Opinion by The Guardian

American women have an alcohol problem

Thousands of former judges and police in Afghanistan are in fear for their lives as the Taliban hunt them for revenge

The war still continues

Should world leaders start talking to the Taliban?

About what? There doesn't seem to be a lot in common. But is this worth a try?

Trump's assault on American justice inspires authoritarians everywhere

Opinion from The Guardian

US Military recruitment crisis

Why a career in the military isn't as attractive as it used to be

Is America on the brink of political violence (again)?

Trump is now dialing up defiance against the judicial system: This report from his New Hampshire rally by MSNBC

Refugee boats in the Mediterranean are now prey for armed groups

Case study of the Libyan armed group Tareq Bin Zeyad, which also receives money from Europe to stop the refugees, then allegedly 'disappears' them

Sex after war - trying to heal again in Ukraine

Dealing with sexual dysfunction after battlefield injuries

'It's like playing with death' - Ukraine's frontline female soldiers

There are at least 60,000 of them fighting for their country

Drowned refugees in the English Channel prompt fresh anger at UK asylum policies

This keeps on happening

America is losing the war on drugs (again)

This time, it's fentanyl - fast, cheap and deadly

The world's deadliest migration route: More than 2000 missing at sea

Presumed drowned

US politics fighting dirty? Attempts to smear the families of Presidential candidates

The Hunter Biden-Jared Kushner case study

Alarm in the West as Russia fends off Ukraine's counteroffensive

Who's to blame? Does the West need to share some responsibility?

The murder of environmental activists 'marks the death of the planet'

Murders of indigenous people defending their natural environment are on the rise

'The smell of death haunts the rubble'

CNN reports from the frontlines of Ukraine's counteroffensive

Why are world leaders racing to the Pacific Islands?

Nature needs money, according to President Lula of Brazil. And he wants the rich to pay

What are his chances?

The Martyr in Chief would, well, he'd be a rallying cry to his MAGA base. And would America and the world want to see the MAGA base up in arms?

Actually, Trump in prison would be the 'worst possible outcome' of his court cases

The Martyr in Chief would be a rallying cry to his MAGA base. Another call to arms could be a lot worse than the last time

Dark Money: How it flows through the financial system

Moconomy investigates by focusing on the international banking system, using the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) as a case study

Quality journalism: is it in need of public funding? Should there be support for reliable news in the Post-Truth era?

Scientific American looks at the state of the news

What's the significance of the latest blast in Moscow?

Sky News reports

Civilians in a war zone: What happens, exactly, when they're caught in the crossfire?

Sudan is a current case study

Is the tide starting to turn against Trump? How much are members of his own party starting to walk away?

CNN investigates

How powerful is BRICS? Could it dethrone the US dollar?

DW News reports

Western allies get 'sobering' update on Ukraine counteroffensive

Why instability in Niger is a threat to the west

Why US Republicans are turning against providing aid to Ukraine

Ukraine summer with war on people's minds

Moscow summer with war on people's minds

How to rise above your rivals, according to Trump: Get charged with more criminal indictments

'Any time they file an indictment, we go way up in the polls.' Associated Press reports

The god of war

Stalin described artillery as 'the god of war'. This god has a voracious appetite. So who's feeding it most, and how are supplies holding out?

Why Sweden and Denmark are tightening their borders

Has this anything to do with burning copies of the Quran in both countries and the subsequent riots in protest? Is Islamophobia part of the problem, because most refugees are Muslim? But Europe needs workers. So why restrict border entry?

Governments are meeting to talk about the Amazon rainforest: Why protecting it is so important

Ukraine's counteroffensive: can it succeed?

BBC News reports

The most dangerous black market you've never heard of

This market is still growing

The news: what happens if it's written by algorithms and chatbots? Is this the way of the future?

This is already starting to happen. So what's the reaction? Well, (real) journalists aren't impressed

Is the jail sentence for Pakistan's former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, the end of his career?

How much support does he have?

Three reasons for Trump to be afraid: a courtroom, a jury and the truth

Jonathon Freedland of The Guardian doesn't think Trump's indictments will diminish the devotion of his MAGA base, but will challenge his fraudulent conception of reality

Ukraine's 21st century trench warfare

The UK's Daily Mail reports

Ukraine's hidden war to jam signals used by Russian weapon systems

BBC News reports

Could Trump go to prison?

This is not beyond the realms of possibility. BBC News reports

What happens if Trump is convicted and wins re-election?

Democracy has never been up this creek before, without a paddle

China's great slowdown

What this means for China and the rest of the world

The Trump circus continues. How much more serious is this charge compared to his earlier indictments?

Trump's latest trial will probably be the biggest trial in US history

In Ukraine now, even the corpses can kill

Russians are even booby-trapping the dead

What, again? Yes, there's yet another indictment looming for Trump

This time in Georgia, where Trump wanted over 11,000 phantom voters so that he could (falsely) claim he'd won the Presidential election

The Stanford University scandal: how a first year student started an investigation that led to the resignation of the University President

This is a cautionary tale about academic integrity (or the lack thereof) at one of the world's most prestigious research universities

The US credit downgrade: Why? What impact will this have?

Only in America. Trump's criminal charges over trying to overthrow democracy could help him secure the Republican 2024 nomination

Reuters reports

Trump is indicted, including the criminal charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States. 'Prosecuting Trump is perilous, but ignoring his conduct would be worse'

Opinion by the Wall Street Journal

Aug. 1 was Emancipation Day. Former enslaved British colonies call for reparations

Al Jazeera reports

What's the fallout from Ukraine's drone attacks on Moscow?

China's nuclear forces: How do we interpret Xi Jinping's purge of China's nuclear generals?

ABC News Australia

Gallium and Germanium: the new front in the China-US chip war

BBC News reports

Another space race: This one between China and the US over satellite navigation systems

This has repercussions for national defence, surveillance, and global navigation. Currently, China is winning, with more advanced systems

Decaying chemical weapons threaten the Baltic Sea ecosystems

Dumped after World War 11, they are now leaking into the Baltic Sea

Is Russia now cannibalizing its economy?

What, exactly, is the impact of its war on the Russian economy?

Ukraine's Storm Shadow missile: What are its tactical advantages?

The Wall Street Journal reports on Ukraine's new $1 million plus missile

Is the American gerontocracy starting to falter? How old is too old to run the country?

A doddery America is an alarming possibility

The world's most liveable cities for 2023

Ranking by BBC Travel

To my daughters: Don't forgive my generation for failing you and the planet

Opinion from Al Jazeera

Is the decline of oil in sight?

Because of the rise of renewable energy?

Ukraine has been turned into a giant minefield

Israel's right wing government: What does it want?

Will the government be able to ignore widespread opposition?

The Ukraine war is 'beyond the scale of any conflict' in our lifetime

ABC News Australia

Journalists talk about reporting from the Ukraine frontlines

DW World reports

Fleeing from the war in Sudan: Losing everything, even your own children

Stories of personal tragedy. Report by Al Jazeera

Ukraine tech sector goes to war

Report from the Financial Times

Are 'cocaine sharks' really ingesting drugs dumped off the Florida coast?

Scientific American investigates

A thousand Russian rockets just lying there. "We send them right back"

France 24 reports from Ukraine

Ukraine DIY drones destroy Russian tanks

The Wall Street Journal reports

Ukraine's westen armour is struggling against Russian defences

Report by Newsflow Network

Inside Russia's vast surveillance state

New York Times report

Israel's lurch to the right is prompting calls to cut US aid

Opinion from the New York Times

What's happening in Myanmar?

Well, there's a war in progress. Sky News reports

How common is sexual harassment in the Metaverse?

White lies: The woman trying to stop the skin lightening industry

This industry is valued at $8.6 billion. CNN reports

Photos: Ukraine surgeons on their front line

Trauma surgeons at work, 24/7

The UN Security Council meets for the first time on AI risks

More talk? Any action?

Trauma, terror and courage at the front line in Ukraine

Al Jazeera reports

The growing list of Chinese elites who suddenly disappear

The latest casualty is Foreign Minister Qi Gang

The disappearing Russian Generals

What sort of leadership is this?

At over $886 billion, the US Defence Budget is 'bloated'

According to US Senator Bernie Sanders

After forcing through a law to restrict the judiciary, what next for Israel?

Well, even more unrest and turmoil, just for starters

An Israeli civil war?

Israeli fanatics are fighting it out as never before. Opinion from Al Jazeera

What is Russia trying to achieve by attacking Odesa?

DW News reports

What's behind the 'bumper' pay rise for King Charles?

According to The Guardian, it's 'greed, lies, and a ton of public money'

What to know about Israel's controversial judicial bill, now that the final vote looms

Will Prime Minister Netanyahu be able to consolidate his government's lurch to the right, and will he be able to protect himself from corruption charges?

Russian landmines are taking a heavy toll on Ukraine forces

How Google is losing its grip

Analysis by the Washington Post

Everything you might need to know about Barbie Doll - the good and the bad

Good Barbie, bad Barbie?

Tech giants pledge to watermark AI to protect against fake content

Markets and consumers are in an upbeat mood. Why?

This is a time of war, inflation and rising food prices. So why the optimism?

Some Black people benefitted from slavery in America. Really?

This is what Republicans in Florida want taught in schools

Why US Christians still love Trump

He's not exactly a paragon of virtue, and questions about his honesty and integrity are, well, vexed. So why?

Even with the aid of western weapons, progress is hard won on the Ukraine front

World's most powerful passports ranked

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Why it's getting worse

Al Jazeera reports

The far right is on the rise in Europe

In the grip of a refugee crisis, is multiculturalism now a dirty word?

Iran and its humiliation of female prisoners

Ex-prisoners report frequent filming of strip searches

How rape is weaponised in conflict. Case study: the Indian state of Manipur

Police are often complicit, turning a blind eye

The trolls are coming! With deepfakes and sophisticated disinformation. How AI could erode democracy in the 2024 elections

It will be harder than ever to tell what's true from fake

The Republican response to possible Trump indictments for Jan 6? Ho hum and so what? Charges of inciting a riot and trying to overthrow democracy are just another witch hunt, aren't they?

Opinion from The New York Times

Yet another food crisis for Africa: This will be the consequence of Russia's termination of its Black Sea grain deal with Ukraine.

Reuters reports

Putin will now not attend the BRICS summit in South Africa

Is this a backdown to avoid the ICC arrest warrant for kidnapping Ukraine children? No one is saying so exactly, but Putin's no-show sidesteps any possible problems

Trump's legal problems: Where does each case stand?

The Guardian reports

The art of spying, according to the UK head of MI5

This will be the substance of a speech to be delivered in Prague

Refugees need more than food and shelter

They need to be heard

Want to be a successful investor? Buy a handbag

Well, a Hermès Birkin handbag

4 ways climate change affects weather

The two are inextricably linked

South Africa says arresting Putin would be a 'declaration of war'

The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Putin to face charges of war crimes

Russia exits the grain deal that allowed Ukraine to export its grain. So what will happen next?

Well, food prices will go up, malnutrition will increase, and more African refugees will try to escape to Europe

The EU will give Tunisia $112m to help stop the flow of refugees. Will this fix the problem, or just keep it out of sight?

European countries don't want any more refugees crossing their borders

Tourists flock to Death Valley to experience America's record high temperature

A sizzling 54 degrees Celsius

Former KGB officer says Putin's grip on power 'almost nonexistent'

Making it big (biggest) on Youtube

US meteorologist receives death threats after reporting on climate change

He resigned, afraid for his life, and left town

The tide of migration is changing European politics

What to do about refugees is now the biggest problem facing Europe

Iran's morality police are back in force, this time enforcing hijab bans with the help of surveillance cameras

Al Jazeera reports

The world must now get used to breaking climate records "day after day after day"

The poorest region in America

This is in the Appalachian Mountains. What's it like living there?

Global extreme heat and its relationship to climate change

Russian general fired because he spoke out against the war in Ukraine

Ukraine's spymaster comes out from the shadows

The Ukraine intelligence sector has been highly successful in identifying and neutralising high value Russian targets

The other war being fought over the dominance of the USA and the power of the US dollar

This involves the petrodollar and attempts by the BRICS nations to undermine US power

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Many once-democratic countries are backsliding, becoming less free, but their leaders still enjoy popular support

An ominous trend?

'Resting', fired, believed dead? Russia's missing generals reveal cracks in the military

Putin's nuclear threats pose nightmare scenarios. What's in the Russian nuclear arsenal?

Business Insider reports

Russia's latest nuclear threat

This is an escalation to counter F-16 fighters promised to Ukraine

Explainer: Hollywood actors join writers' strike. How will this affect TV shows and movies?

Reuters reports

The global public debt is growing fast

Whatever happened to MAD?

Israel's disputed legal overview is back on the burner, with a vengeance. So what's new?

There's no sign that Netanyahu will back down

The wheeling and dealing behind Sweden's admission to NATO

Did everyone get what they wanted? DW News reports

How Sweden and Finland strengthen NATO

Report by Reuters

Why the Ukraine counteroffensive is so slow

Wall Street Journal report

How many Russian military deaths in Ukraine? Data reveals what Russia tries to hide

Searches of social media and population counts tell the true story

More than 300 migrants missing at sea

Same old story? No one wants to rescue them? Drowned?

What do you do with the flood of refugees trying to enter Europe?

If you're the Dutch Prime Minister, you resign because no one can agree about what to do with them

For the record: Photos that tell the story of 500 days of war in Ukraine

A tribute to those dealing with tragedy, also war photographers. and viewers who take the time to see

Global rise in temperature is pushing world into 'unchartered territory'

"People and ecosystems are dying, people are losing their livelihoods, and agricultural land will be unusable"

How EU sanctions against Russia are failing

How the US failed to take down narco-terrorism

Putin's nukes in Belarus: What risk do they pose?

DW News reports

Interviews with robots

The world's first press conference with robots at the UN's 'AI for Good' conference in Geneva

500 days of war in Ukraine

Why Apple and Samsung are moving out of China

Wall Street Journal reports

How the Russia Ukraine conflict is supercharging AI warfare

The battlefield is changing

Lethal minefields are holding up Ukraine progress

The terror factor of landmines

America will now send cluster bombs to Ukraine. Why are cluster bombs so controversial?

Over 120 countries have banned the use of cluster bombs. But not the USA, Ukraine or Russia

This week, the world broke temperature records, two days in succession

And that's not all

Deep sea mining permits may be coming soon: What are they and what do they mean?

The rise of private militias

Vice media reports

Fears about Russian sabotage or military strikes on Ukraine's nuclear power plant

The BBC reports

Too many torturers are evading justice

From the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

Anger and concern about Japan's plans to dump Fukushima waste water into the ocean

People in Japan, and neighbouring countries are alarmed

Putin and Xi make a showing at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, consisting of Eurasia's most influential countries.

Will the SCO be a rival to NATO, and how might it be a threat to the west?

The future of war

The Economist reports

The Fourth of July is a US celebration: Why is it the riskiest day for mass shootings?

Over 100 political elites in the USA, including Biden, have family links to owning slaves

Do they admit it?

Boil-in-the-bag environmentally friendly funerals

The European dilemma about nuclear power

This dilemma has been exacerbated by disruptions in the supply of Russian natural gas

Empowered by a Conservative majority, the US Supreme Court is 'creeping dangerously towards authoritarianism'

Protests by some members of Congress about SCOTUS recent decisions

The fund for Nahel's killer in France now tops $1 million

Is the message: Kill an Arab and become a millionaire? More outrage in France

Ex-Russian arms dealer, known as the 'Merchant of Death', to stand for a far-right political party in Russia

Viktor Bout was released by the USA during a prisoner swop with the US basketball player, Britney Greiner

Police killed Nahel because French racism enabled it

Riots across France show no sign of abating

Will France be safe to host the Rugby World Cup?

And what about the Olympics next year?

Putin appears weaker, but his opponents should expect vengeance

The US is poised to provide controversial cluster bombs to Ukraine