UK police arrested five members of the NGO Defend Our Juries, which has been campaigning against the British government’s ban of another NGO, Palestine Action, as a “terrorist group.” London’s Metropolitan Police confirmed three men and two women, ranging between the ages…
They stood together like old friends, heads thrown back in jovial laughter, clutching one another’s hands affectionately. Except this was no ordinary gathering of three men, but a meeting of three of the most powerful non-western leaders: Vladimir Putin, Xi…
Jessica Sobieski, Christina Harward, Jennie Olmsted, Justin Young, Olivia Gibson, and George Barros September 1, 2025, 8:45 pm ET Click here to see ISW’s interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the…
The Taliban has called for international aid as Afghanistan reels from an earthquake that killed more than 800 people and left thousands injured. Rescuers searched into the night for survivors on Monday after the 6.0 magnitude quake struck on Sunday.…
Russia is believed to have jammed the satellite signal of a plane carrying the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, over Bulgaria, reportedly forcing it to circle an airport for an hour. Von der Leyen was travelling to Plovdiv…
The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Out of the International Association of Genocide Scholars’s (IAGS) 500 members, 28% took part in the vote.…
The century-old duty-free import exemption that transformed American online shopping has ended, The Atlantic argues, closing a loophole that allowed packages valued under $800 to enter the United States without tariffs. The de minimis threshold, raised from $200 in 2016,…
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A flotilla carrying activists and humanitarian aid for Gaza left Barcelona’s port on Monday for a second time after the vessels were forced to return a day earlier because of bad weather conditions. The Global Sumud…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Ukrainian officials arrested a suspect in the shooting death of former parliament speaker and prominent pro-Western politician Andriy Parubiy. Zelenskyy said in a statement on X that a person was…
Why do so many devastating earthquakes happen in Afghanistan?published at 02:20 British Summer Time 02:20 BST Afghanistan is very prone to earthquakes because it is located on top of a number of fault lines where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic…