From the cyberattacks on Israeli hospitals that affected thousands of people, to those that paralysed most of Iran’s petrol pumps for several days, cyber warfare in the Middle East is on the rise and its targets are increasingly [...]

Described as the worst fishing technique in the world, bottom trawling has been the subject of heated debate for decades. But solutions are at hand to try to limit the impacts of this practice.

Attempts to implement top-down mechanisms, such as the single digital payment, that leave out a significant percentage of the world’s population will only result in poverty and exclusion. Virtual money already coexists seamlessly with physical money. But paper banknotes still have a lot of use [...]

“We want to be alive, free and without debt.” With slogans such as these, Argentinian feminists are attempting to expose the connection between debt, global finance, labour exploitation and male violence.

The courageous Ukrainian resistance and the anti-war movement in Russia are a civic, not ethnic, reaction to the invasion. And their civic stance has global support.

In France’s overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique, people wonder why, with so many endemic problems, the law on Covid vaccines is the only one France seems intent on enforcing.

The last decade has been particularly turbulent for the Middle East. In addition to the war in Yemen and the military coup in Egypt, the wars in Syria and Libya rage on. At the same time, arms imports to the parties involved in these conflicts are on the [...]

Since the beginning of January 2022, Kazakhstan has found itself in the throes of a social and political crisis of unprecedented proportions. Popular demonstrations, armed riots and an attempted coup d’état have shaken Central Asia’s largest and richest [...]

“The substandard, get-by-on-the-cheap procedures that the Chinese government and the IOC have instituted for the Beijing Olympics risk lowering global standards for everyone. It is unlikely that only athletes will pay the price.”

On 10 November 2020, the Nagorno-Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan came to an end. The conflict left thousands dead and wounded and tens of thousands of people displaced. Armenia is still stinging from its defeat and has yet to turn the [...]