The escalation in fighting comes amid deepening concerns about the vast humanitarian toll of the conflict. Fighting has intensified across Sudan as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group has launched attacks on the besieged city of el-Fasher in North Darfur and the North Kordofan city of Bara. The RSFRead More →
Second order this year focuses on UK users; earlier attempt included US user data, but was withdrawn under US pressure. The British government has ordered Apple to hand over personal data uploaded by its customers to the cloud for the second time this year in an ongoing privacy row thatRead More →
With rare access to El Salvador’s most secure prisons, we explore the dark side of President Bukele’s gang crackdown. President Nayib Bukele introduced a state of emergency in El Salvador, using it to dismantle the violent gangs that had terrorised the Central American country for decades. Thousands of alleged gangRead More →
U.S. President Donald Trump stands next to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev (not pictured) at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 8, 2025. Jessica Koscielniak | Reuters A New York state appeals court on Thursday threw out a more than $500 million civil fraud penalty imposed on President DonaldRead More →
Since the controversial ban on July 7, more than 700 people have been detained at peaceful protests. London’s Metropolitan Police say at least 60 people will face prosecution for “showing support” for Palestine Action, the activist group outlawed as a “terrorist organisation” last month for protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.Read More →
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a controversial bill that hands sweeping authority to Ukraine’s prosecutor general over the country’s independent anticorruption agencies. This triggered the largest antigovernment protests on Tuesday since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022. More protests are expected Wednesday. The new legislation, now law, gives the prosecutorRead More →
