Category: World
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Alanoud Al Fayez left Saudi Arabia in 2003 and has lived in London ever since. Her four daughters by the late King Abdullah say they were confined for years in a Jeddah compound. UN experts were told they were medicated without consent. Two of the sisters are now dead.
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Primaries were held in several US states this week. What a primary actually decides, why some go to runoffs, and why reading national trends into one state’s result is usually a mistake.
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Princess Haya bint Hussein of Jordan fled Dubai for London in 2019 with her two children. The custody battle that followed produced findings of intimidation, a phone-hacking ruling involving Pegasus spyware, and the largest financial award ever made by an English divorce court.
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DR Congo has passed 4,000 confirmed Ebola cases. Why the total is the wrong number to watch, why this outbreak is harder than previous ones, and what ending one requires.
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Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum tried to flee Dubai by sea in 2018 and was seized off the coast of India. A London court later found her father ordered it. She has since been photographed abroad — but has never spoken publicly about any of it.
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Iran is reported to be nearing a deal with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz. Why Oman is one of the two owners of that water, and what “control” could and couldn’t legally mean.
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The Bald Range fire has emptied the village of Summerland and forced 20,000 people from their homes in British Columbia. Why valley towns are so hard to evacuate.
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Rescuers are still finding survivors in Colombia three days on, while official and civilian counts of the missing differ by thousands. What is known, and why the numbers disagree.
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Pope Leo XIV has named eight new members to the Vatican’s Council for the Economy, half of them laypeople. Why who watches the Vatican’s money is a question with a long history.
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Why do buildings fall down in earthquakes? What seismic design costs, why economists say the market underprices it, and the argument over codes and enforcement.