The government has announced plans to sanction Iranian officials behind what it called hostile activities in the UK, The BBC reports: The foreign secretary said since January 2022 there had… Read more »
It is with great sadness that I share the news that Carlos Alberto Montaner has passed away, writes Aimel Rios Wong, Senior Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean at… Read more »
Colombian President Gustavo Petro will likely pave the way for a far-right administration in the same way that Iván Duque paved the way for Petro’s own rise to power, says… Read more »
History tells us war is a question of will, @general_ben tells @FukuyamaFrancis @americanpurpose. One reason why #Ukraine will defeat #Russia in the coming months & threaten their position in #Crimea…. Read more »
In Central and Eastern Europe, experience shows that democratization has better chances where linkages to the West are strong and ideological alternatives, such as Russian-style “managed democracy” or authoritarianism, are weak,… Read more »
Facebook’s parent company Meta announced Wednesday that it has taken down a network of more than 100 China-based accounts that posed as organizations in the US and Europe and pushed… Read more »
In Cuba, elections are neither the means to select governments nor a channel for citizens to communicate their views, CIVICUS reports. Rather, they serve a legitimizing purpose, both domestically and… Read more »
Chinese paramilitary units with experience in dishing out the brutal repression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang may be deployed to Taiwan once the island nation is conquered, a leading China… Read more »
A court in Belarus on Thursday sentenced a reporter for the now-closed local edition of one of Russia’s most popular newspapers to three years in prison for insulting the country’s… Read more »
While the news of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody in September 2022 sparked protests across Iran, it is not the first time Iranian women and girls have been at… Read more »