In 2013, Nu‘man al-Hudheyfi – a man of akhdam origin – participated at the National Dialogue Conference (NDC) held in Sanaa as part of the crisis reconciliation efforts following the 2011 Yemeni Arab ...

At the end of March, Argentina’s government celebrated a dramatic fall in the poverty rate: 28.2% of the population is now ...

A secretive corporate intelligence firm with close ties to the government saw its UK revenues surge by 30% in the first financial year after its managing partner left to become Keir Starmer’s most ...

By extending the pause in fighting, Donald Trump admits that Iran is in a strong bargaining position – so what next?

"Political technology" – a term largely unfamiliar in the West - is the euphemism commonly used in the former Soviet states for what is by now a highly developed industry of political manipulation.

We spoke to Bernadett Sebály, who has tracked Hungary’s resistance for years, on the vote – and what others can learn ...

Amazon and X’s policies on age verification and content moderation criticised in report on murder of three children and ...

The dominant process underlying the transformation of life in all societies, since at least the mid-nineteenth century, is the conversion of things and activities into commodities, or commodification.

UK government must not create two-tier system for trafficking victims to access support based on country of origin ...

Sukhanovskaya Prison, also known as Sukhanovka or Special Facility No.110 existed between 1938 and 1952. In 1938, on the orders of the NKVD [forerunner of the KGB and FSB] a secret detention centre ...

Once a month Ilya Stepanov turns into a girl. He registers on a popular Russian social networking site and creates a page apparently belonging to a teenager of 14 or so. ‘Tanya’ or ‘Viktoria’ starts ...

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