Russia's democracy may be dead, but the regime is sparing neither effort nor expense in staging the presidential election. Large voter turnout is supposed to give Putin's rule the appearance of l...
UNRWA employees are alleged to have participated in the October 7 terror attack against Israel. Is there any truth to the allegations? And what happens to the Gaza Strip if the most important hum...
German cities are suffering from a shortage of bus drivers, and local transportation companies are looking all the way to the shores of Lake Victoria to find what they need. They aren't the only ...
Kyiv's soldiers have been fighting under the most difficult of conditions for two years. They are running out of ammunition and replacement troops are few. Many are no longer capable of imagining...
Russia has reverted to a dictatorship under President Vladimir Putin. Most people in the country seem to be accepting the war against Ukraine as well as the death of opposition activist Alexei Na...
Indonesia is building a brand new capital city in the jungles of Borneo. Critics say it's a waste of money and will continue rampant environmental destruction. But might it perhaps become a model...
With his recent comments on NATO, Donald Trump shocked the Western world. Is the U.S. preparing to abandon its allies? Europe finally seems to be considering a future in which the American nuclea...
Hamas held Chen Goldstein-Almog and her children hostage for 51 days. In an interview, she talks about hunger, fear of death, conversations with her guards – and why she can't really be happy a...
In an interview, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert blames his successor Benjamin Netanyahu, but also arrogance, for the rise of Hamas. He is also calling for an American-European interven...
Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Houthi attacks on the Red Sea and Iranian missiles fired on Iraq: The risk of escalation in the Middle East is growing.
They went to the desert for a party but became the targets of a brutal massacre. Survivors of the Tribe of Nova festival are seeking to begin the healing process at a wellness resort in Cyprus.
Ukraine has been heavily mined. Hundreds of civilians have already fallen victim to the explosives, and the economic damage has been enormous. How do you liberate an entire country from Russia’...
Esther Horvath has for years been photographing women engaged in climate research in the Arctic. Her photos show the challenges they face as they go about their work in minus 30 degrees Celsius.
Açaí berries from Brazil are considered to be extremely healthy and ecologically sustainable. But there is a dark side to the business that producers prefer to keep quiet: child labor.
The West has provided the Tunisian security apparatus with millions of euros in funding. It had been earmarked for combating terror, curbing migration and strengthening the democratic transition....
Even as all eyes were on the PLO, a small Islamist group slowly took root in the Gaza Strip in the late 1980s. But under the leadership of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas grew and grew, and ultimately became...
Spying from China continues to grow in both volume and sophistication. The cyber-snoops from the People's Republic have moved beyond companies and are now seeking to exert influence on politics i...
The majority of Russians accept the war against Ukraine without complaint. But now, some of the wives of conscripted men are starting to go public with their frustration. They could become a prob...
World leaders insist it is time to leave the fossil fuel era behind. But oil companies are making more money than ever before. A new project off the coast of Guyana shows why the energy transitio...
Qatar was instrumental in the negotiations that have led to the release of some of the hostages held by Hamas. Former premier Hamad bin Jassim condemns the Hamas attack, but also says that Israel...