Reporting on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit on July 3-4 in Astana gave me the opportunity to once again explore the Kazakh capital – one of the most unusual cities in the world....
Over half the world’s population, over four billion people will go to the polls in 2024, in elections being held in over forty countries. The United Kingdom and the United States will both have...
Around 320 journalists were imprisoned for their work around the world in 2023, according to a report released Thursday by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). This figure is the second...
If you want to celebrate Christmas somewhere different, you are in luck this year, as airfares for Christmas have on average decreased by an average of 12% compared to 2022, according to travel app...
Maps of Venezuela show the Essequibo with oblique stripes, indicating that it is a disputed area. Some of these maps even obviate the nearly 160 square kilometers of land between Venezuela and...
Across the world, communities are facing multiple crises, all at once, and as long as we look at each issue as separate and unrelated, we will fail to adequately address any of them. The reality is...
The Tocorón penitentiary (one of the most dangerous prisons in Venezuela) has operated in recent years as a recreational park for some of the prisoners, with facilities that include swimming pools,...
Ambitious development plans such as Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 have been the subject of regular media attention. Much of that attention centers on the massive financial resources earmarked to...
Migration news has many faces. People running across the border, crossing rivers, crammed into a detention center, moving in buses across states, surviving on rafts or used as a symbol of separation....
Towns can be like people, some more Christmas-loving and others more grinchy. And if you are like the former, you've probably dreamed of experiencing a fairytale Christmas, where the streets have...