Thanks to his office, Donald Trump is becoming richer. His behaviour fits a well-known pattern of corruption. The hope for the US mid-term elections in early November is that people have noticed.

Young women in Delhi choose safer routes and carry pepper spray out of fear of sexual violence. After another shocking ...

As Sudan’s capital is slowly recovering from having been a theatre of war for two years, grassroots book fairs and cycling ...

The city of Wazirabad is famous for its handcrafted cutlery. But workers who spend decades grinding and polishing metal can ...

Crystal meth, fentanyl and other drugs that are made in a laboratory are a booming business with global supply chains. Mexico ...

On the Indonesian volcanic island of Flores, a state-owned company is pushing ahead with controversial geothermal projects in ...

As government efforts seem to fail, it is religious organisations that are building the country’s most effective drug ...

Between 2015 and 2024, more than 960 million people gained access to safe drinking water and 1.2 billion to safe sanitation. This is undoubtedly a success. Nevertheless, according to the World Bank, 2 ...

It was a small ray of hope amidst great suffering: when the residents of the village of Beshonai in Buner District in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were severely affected by floods ...

Quite evidently, poverty, lack of education and traditional attitudes mattered very much. For a long time, however, South Africa’s government – then led by President Thabo Mbeki – stayed in denial, ...

As night falls over Tbilisi, Georgia, thousands of protesters flood the streets. It is December 2024, just over a month after parliamentary elections that the demonstrators claim were rigged. They are ...

Many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) currently stand at a historic crossroads: a fundamental paradigm shift is needed to stabilise the region politically, protect it from the ...