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A referendum on Modi? India votes as BJP look...

| François PICARD | 2024

The opposition warns of growing inequality and democratic backsliding. Court cases that are deemed political dog its leader Rahul Gandhi, as well the popular chief minister of Delhi, who's currently in jail for alleged ties to a c...

Sudan's 'forgotten war', Iran-Israel shadow w...

| Gavin LEE | 2024

Iran-Israel shadow war out in the openThis week, in the midst of escalating conflict in the Middle East, the US, the UK, France and Germany urged Israel to use restraint in responding to an Iranian missile and drone attack in the ...

D-Day Diplomacy, UK election campaign and Mod...

| Gavin LEE | 2024

It's also been a week that's seen TV debates and election drama in the UK. Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer were combative but clipped by the question master in their first leaders' debate. The week was also milk-shaken up by the retu...

Israel & Iran, Barnier Budget, Jupiler & Joke...

| Gavin LEE | 2024

It has been a week that has seen a hurricane devastate the east coast of the US. Millions of people left without power, and rescuers searching through the floods waters for survivors in Florida. What started as a category 5 predic...

Arianna Huffington, editor of The Huffington ...

| Leela JACINTO

No peace to keep? Israel pressures United Nat...

| François PICARD | 2024

Israeli forces are releasing drone footage purporting to show a Hezbollah position that is literally a stone's throw away from a UNIFIL base. What is the UN's job when Hezbollah fires rockets for 11-plus months out of a zone that ...

Sky's the limit? Ukraine presses allies to al...

| François PICARD | 2024

Already Kyiv is growing bolder in response to the Kremlin's relentless targeting of its critical infrastructure, with Ukrainian drones this week hitting a military airport near Moscow and aiming for bases in Murmansk, all the way ...

Will it move the needle? Harris and Trump tra...

| François PICARD | 2024

We ask if it all went to script, and what that script is in a tight race with huge consequences for the whole planet. A fleeting instance of infotainment or a moment that might move the needle?Central is the strategy: in 2024, is ...

Better inside or out? Venezuela's opposition ...

| François PICARD | 2024

How about the leader of the opposition coalition, Maria Corina Machado? The conservative – who was barred from running – insists she is staying put in Venezuela, all the while playing hide-and-seek with authorities who are also th...