The Netherlands hosts the largest port in Europe, and is therefore home to a vast smuggling industry — Dutch politicians not ...

In an eerie echo of her books, writer Egana Djabbarova became the subject of Russian scrutiny, her every move watched, her every word judged.

It’s good to celebrate the wins, and I’m delighted the British government has decided to cap political donations from voters ...

Italy abandoned nuclear power after Chernobyl and Fukushima. Now, rising energy demand and geopolitics are forcing a rethink.

Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister since 2010, faces an election dogfight. Behind in the polls, he has been effectively ...

Using Silicon Valley tools, Iran has waged a propaganda and misinformation campaign that is finding its mark. The U.S. has only itself to blame ...

Two servicemen sit in an underground missile launch facility. Before them is a matrix of buttons and bulbs glowing red, white and green. Old-school screens with blocky, all-capped text beam beside ...

It was 1998. Olivier Rubbers, then 29 years old, came up with the idea of returning beavers to his local rivers. “My level of knowledge about nature was extremely poor,” he now confesses. But he’d ...

When he saw the Tunisian coast guard coming, Fabrice Ngo knew he wouldn’t make it to Italy that day. The young Cameroonian had pushed off from the shore of the Tunisian city of Sfax in a small metal ...

It all started on impulse. I was lying in my bed, with the lights off, wallowing in grief over a long-distance breakup that had happened over the phone. Alone in my room, with only the sounds of the ...

On the evening of January 10, 2022, the ten-member school board of McMinn County, Tennessee gathered to discuss Maus, the groundbreaking graphic novel by Art Spiegelman that tells his parents’ story ...