Standing by while a whole people gets massacred doesn’t absolve countries of their responsibility in that. There is complicity in silence. A Palestinian woman holds the body of her 8-year-old daughter who was killed in an Israeli military strike on Gaza, at...
Some 10,000 U.S. soldiers protect weather balloons and navigation and spy satellites from threats from above. It isn’t the only space force out there. Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on 4 October 2023. (Credit: Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix) Not many military...
In only a handful of countries are journalists supported, protected and generally trusted. We need to change that. A clickable map of press freedom. Courtesy of Reporters Without Borders. After a century of gradual expansion of press rights in the United States, the...
Voters in the U.S. state of Delaware elected someone to Congress because of issues they care about. The gender of that person at birth was not one of them. U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride walks through the U.S. Capitol on 2 April 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)...
With housing prices at sky-high levels, people in Spain say it is time for their government to take action. Governments elsewhere are taking notice. A protest in Madrid 13 October 2024 over high rents and a shortage of long term rentals. (Credit: Leah Pattem)...
Inside one of Italy’s quietly radical institutions, musicians and educators reshape how we hear — and understand — a nation’s soundscape. A grand piano at the Museum and Library of Music, in Bologna, Italy. (Photo courtesy of the Museum and Library of...
As India and Pakistan battle over control of Kashmir, young people there flock to reading halls. They still have exams to pass. Students study at a private reading hall in Srinagar. (Credit: Mohammad Aatif Ammad Kanth) This article was produced exclusively for News...
The Labour government wants to renew trade with Europe. The Tories had failed to do that after Brexit. We take a look back at that last attempt. Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, and European...
Uganda has a lower rate of kidney disease than the United States. But the mortality rate from it? That’s another story. A kidney dialysis machine. Credit: saengsuriya13/Getty Images This article was produced exclusively for News Decoder’s global news service. It...
As India and Pakistan stare each other down, people who fish around a disputed sea border find themselves caught in a trap. Family members of Indian fishermen jailed in Pakistan sit outside a house in India’s Diu. (Credit: Tarushi Aswani) This article was...