Ethan Woolf argues that the UN’s endorsement of Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara legitimises occupation and sacrifices Saharawi self-determination for geopolitical convenience.

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Poland's exclusion from the top table is a bitter blow for a country that has taken one of the EU's most active positions on ...

On Human Rights Day 2025, the broader Middle East remains a region where basic rights are shaped by war, occupation, authoritarian rule, and the growing power of nonstate armed groups. Wars in Gaza, ...

Robert Costa, national correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning and chief Washington analyst, was feted at the National ...

Seven Aban: a new, powerful voice of independent, highly educated liberal dissidents with organizational talent and political ...

What example would Congress set by extending a temporary pandemic subsidy that notably worsens the nation’s fiscal trajectory ...

Googoosh’s love songs are both banned and beloved in her homeland. Her new memoir reveals a life as rich and painful as Iran’s history.

Her victory ends 30 years of Republican control and makes her the first Democrat to lead a city historically dominated by ...

Armenia and Azerbaijan, after the second Karabakh war, appear increasingly close to normalizing relations, but analysts and ...

The past year was another bleak one for journalists, with dozens killed and hundreds more behind bars around the world, ...

Falana criticised what he described as the shrinking civic space, warning that the criminalisation of dissent undermines democracy.