Illustration: Emma Peer

Reasons to be Cheerful

Workers unite; Norway divests; Reclaimed.

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Old Foes

Old Foes

Ethiopia and Eritrea reignite rivalry, turning the famine-struck north into a proxy front, by Samuel Getachew.

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The SVPM push back protestors at a Black Lives Matter march in May 2020. In a city with a highly militarized police force, annual demonstrations against police brutality have been held in Montreal for nearly 20 years.Photo: Graham Hughes/Alamy

Brutal Force

Twin police shootings expose Canada’s hidden crisis of racialized violence, by Changiz M Varzi.

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Illustration: Emma Peer

Introducing... Muhammad Nahid Islam

The Bangladeshi student activist-turned-politician, by Richard Swift.

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A border zone along Finland's 1,300km border with Russia.Photo: Andrea Izzotti/Alamy Stock Photo

Frozen out

Finland’s cold-border law chills asylum rights and gives Europe a hard new line, by Bethany Rielly.

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Women with lotus flowers – a national symbol – join the celebrations in Ho Chi Minh city on 30 April 2025.Photo: Tom Fawthrop

Celebrations clouded by toxic legacy

Vietnam’s jubilee parades clash with the lingering poisons of war, by Tom Fawthrop.

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Rewarding bullies

Rewarding bullies

Starmer courts Trump at the expense of UK rights and digital protections, by Anita Bhadani.

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Lethal exports

Lethal exports

US gun pipeline fuels Haiti’s gangs while Washington looks away, by Steve Shaw.

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Briefly

Briefly

Starbucks’ slaves; Canal clash; Tracking a crackdown; Deeper dictatorship; Long legacy; Royal negligence.

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Attack on aid

Attack on aid

Gaza aid ship blasted as Israel extends its siege beyond the shoreline, by Paula Lacey.

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En route

En route

Kolkata’s century-old trams battle property tycoons and political apathy to stay in motion, by Ritwika Mitra.

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Possessions lie scattered across a home damaged by an Indian strike in Neelum Valley, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on 13 May 2025.Photo: Stringer/Reuters

Fear lingers

Kashmiris pay the price while Delhi and Islamabad posture for power, by Adil Hussain and Adil Hussain .

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Illustration: Emma Peer

Reasons to be Cheerful

Bank Backs Down; Cruelty Curbed; Justice In The Aegean; Paula Lacey.

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Uncertain Future

Uncertain Future

After years of deadly conflict, Manipur’s fragile calm masks deep divisions—resignation and repression offer no clear path to peace without real reconciliation, writes Manu Moudgil.

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Protesters gather outside Barcelona's Casa Orsola building on 23 November 2024 to demand better protections for tenants in the city.Photo: Richard Matoušek

Not Going Anywhere

Tenants score a rare win in Barcelona’s housing crisis as public buyout halts evictions—but at a steep price that still rewards the speculators, by Richard Matoušek.

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Illustration: Emma Peer

Introducing... Abdul-Malik al-Houthi

Abdul-Malik’s recent efforts to interfere with Israel’s war machine that has got the world suddenly talking about the Houthis, writes Richard Swift.

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Protesters rally against Donald Trump’s USAID freeze outside the US Capitol on 5 February 2025.Photo: Gent Shkullaku/Zuma Press Wire

Abandoned

As US aid vanishes overnight, Ecuador’s migrant communities are left stranded—caught between political posturing abroad and collapsing support at home, by Cameron Baillie.

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An aerial view of recently dug graves in Manaus, Brazil’s largest Amazon city, where more than 2,500 people died from Covid during the first wave alone. The city’s chronically underfunded healthcare system swiftly collapsed followed by the funerary system, forcing families to bury loved ones in mass graves.Photo: Reuters/Bruno Kelly

Post-Covid?

Five years on, the world pays the price for forgetting Covid-19’s legacy of inequality, denial, and a global health system still unprepared for what’s next, by Nick Dowson.

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Digital dictatorship

Digital dictatorship

Myanmar’s military cements its rule online with sweeping VPN bans and surveillance powers, silencing dissent and tightening control, by Laura O'Connor.

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Year of repression

Year of repression

As Erdoğan tightens his grip, LGBTQI+ activists and journalists face arrest, surveillance and a wave of repressive laws in Turkey’s ‘Year of the Family’, by Rohan Stevenson.

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