Four years after mass protests, Cubans still face empty shelves and a political vacuum filled by far-right groups. →

Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, the prime minister of Nepal and ‘the irremovable leader’ of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist, UML), has resigned after protests against corruption, a bleak economic situation and a social media ban (now (…) →

On Thursday night, Brazil’s supreme court sentenced the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison. Four of a panel of five judges found the 70-year-old Bolsonaro — who was an army (…) →

The Arab states will not come to Gaza’s aid. None of them has launched any significant diplomatic initiative to prevent the reoccupation of the enclave or to end the Israeli bombardment it has endured for nearly two years. Despite the dreadful human toll — 70,000 dead, 70% of them women and children, according to some estimates — and a famine reminiscent of the worst medieval sieges, not a single capital across the Arab world is demanding sanctions against Tel Aviv or threatening its Western partners with retaliation for their unwavering support of Binyamin Netanyahu and his government (…) →

After two centuries of conflict and three decades on a permanent war footing, Armenia and Azerbaijan have recently made steps towards lasting peace. In March 2025, the two countries announced that a deal had been drawn up that recognised the territorial integrity of both within the borders set at the fall of the Soviet Union. Several obstacles (…) →