Category: World
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Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores want their drug trafficking indictment thrown out on head-of-state immunity. The argument runs straight into the fact that Washington stopped recognising him as head of state years ago.
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Xi Jinping’s first visit to Egypt in ten years came while Washington is six months into a war with Iran. The handshake is easy to over-read — here is what would actually have to happen for it to matter.
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Two Filipino seafarers were killed when an Iranian attack struck a Saudi-owned tanker. They had no stake in the war. A quarter of the world’s merchant crews are Filipino, and nothing in the system produces a finding when one of them is killed.
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Iran says it struck US bases in Kuwait and the UAE overnight; Jordan says it intercepted ten of thirteen missiles. Nobody was killed. The exchanges have settled into a pattern that depends on interceptors working every time.
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Iran says it struck US bases in Kuwait and the UAE, and puts the civilian toll from Tuesday’s American strikes at 18 dead. The Iranian Red Crescent has asked the ICC to act over a strike on a wedding in Sirik. Here is what the court can actually do.
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Protests against automated licence plate readers more than doubled the previous monthly record in August. A dozen American cities have cancelled contracts, the objections cross party lines, and almost none of it has been reported nationally.
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A month after fighting resumed between Ethiopian federal forces and the TPLF, conflict monitors find it has stayed localised — border clashes and drone strikes around Mekelle, not the country-wide war of 2020 to 2022. That finding is a measurement, not a reassurance.
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While coverage of the Middle East follows Iran, Hormuz and the Houthis, conflict monitors are recording something quieter: jihadist groups adapting to the space that has opened in southern Yemen and northeastern Syria.
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Armed groups from Mexico to Brazil are fitting shop-bought quadcopters with grenades. The fatality counts are modest and the datasets are young — but the use that does most of the work, driving families off land without killing anyone, is the one nobody counts.
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Colombia’s forensic institute says three of the ten killed in an August air strike were minors, two of them fifteen. Human Rights Watch counts 1,500 children recruited by armed groups since 2021. Put the two findings together and the strategy has a problem.