Egyptian security forces arrested six journalists working for the independent investigative journalism platform Matsda2sh on September 28 and 29 and appear to have forcibly disappeared them.

To construct effective technology regulation, we must dismantle the mythological language surrounding AI, argues Amber Sinha.

Preparing for a world of synthetic pathogens.

On 10 August, three days after the inauguration of President Abelardo de la Espriella, Colombia experienced a magnitude...

Critics in the small West African nation say their government has not said why it agreed to one of the largest U.S. deportation deals, who the deportees are, or how they will be handled.

Learning to Live in a Post-American World

by Rex Butler

The arrival of 78,000 migrants has tested Pedro Sánchez’s outlier approach. For Europe and humanity’s sake, he must continue to stand firm

Student unrest sweeps India, Portugal and Mexico as grievances and pressure for good grades in tough job market collide

Development comes after Anthropic was found to have spent millions on books to scan for ‘data acquisition’

Trump’s vow to dismantle the international court will inaugurate a new era of impunity

Afghanistan’s Taliban have entrenched one of the world’s worst human rights crises and systematically dismantled the rights of women and girls since taking power five years ago.

Five things on gender (in)equality and the backlash against feminism

The Russian government-controlled Africa Corps carried out airstrikes in central Mali on June 15, 2026, that killed eight civilians, including three children, in an apparently unlawful attack, Human R...

Does Andy Burnham have the attention span, the will and the courage to tackle a collapsing justice system?

The body of Nadhira Alharthy, the first Omani woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, was among those recovered. The influential British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja was missing.

The task now is to stop mourning the old order and build the foundations of the new multipolar world

Four months, thousands of lives, billions of dollars.

A flawed book tries to put race and politics back into a pan-American tragedy.

Occasionally when the phone rang at the London Review offices in the late 1990s it would be the operator asking if we’...

The US is aligning itself with dictators and autocrats to prevent those accused of genocide, ethnic cleansing and war crimes from ever facing justice, says Steve Bloomfield, former international edito...

When Imran Perretta was young, he was abruptly pulled by police into a van for questioning. That experience, as well as the death of his mother, inspired him to make Ish, a coming-of-age tale set amongst the British Muslim community. He talks about trauma, designing toilets and making Luton look magnificent

Countries suspicious of the US are to be found on every continent, not just in its own back yard

United Nations agencies estimate 650,000 people, including 230,000 children, have been affected by the devastating earthquakes of June 24, which have now claimed more than 5,000 lives– a figure that is still rising. Aid workers warn that the health emergency is far from over.

English identity is a funny business: we can be one thing to ourselves and something else to others, and that changes...

A single mom, her two daughters, and the chatbots that fill in the gaps.

The pop star’s latest literary cause is good PR—and a complicated topic.

Hundreds of UK nationals have been made stateless, and left trapped in squalid refugee camps, without being convicted of any crime

The vague language of the U.S.-Iran cease-fire memo laid the foundation for the war’s resumption.

For years politicians had taken it for granted that they could profit from the grey economy of French politics. Sarkozy...

In Ankara, the outgoing prime minister is once again at the European vanguard, urging further support for Ukraine

Officials said more than 20 people were still missing because of the fire, one of the deadliest in Spain’s history. Most of those confirmed to have been killed were from Belgium or Britain.

Tributes have been paid to the South Africa midfielder Jayden Adams, who played in their three World Cup group games

Devon and Cornwall Police say the 78-year-old was found at her home on Dartmoor in Devon on Thursday with serious injuries.

Wandering around an infinitely complex, ever-changing world. Click to read The Garden of Forking Paths, by Brian Klaas, a Substack publication.