Carola Rackete, captain of an NGO search and rescue ship, was arrested by Italian authorities when landing in Italy. She isn’t the first to be criminalised for trying to save people at sea.
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This overdue honour is a welcome sign of the growing power of Native Americans.
The favourite to become the next prime minister has never felt the need to apologise for his offensive remarks about Muslim women.
The Muslim Brotherhood has been slow to adapt to its new reality.
Laws against ‘revenge porn’, upskirting, deepfake pornography are piecemeal, and a review will take years to conduct. Here are three things government can do now to support victims.
The president’s policy achievements are distinctly ordinary, for a Republican, and his limited record may offer a good line of attack for opponents.
Fifty years after the Stonewall riots, what is their political legacy for LGBTQ activism?
The debacle has highlighted the negative image which unionism must lay to rest for good or face extinction.
Four former presidents have been accused of corruption after Operation Carwash.
Walls needn’t be impenetrable to divide people, as Cuba’s Trocha made all too clear.
It’s time race equality was practised in the academy, not just preached.
Citizens’ assemblies could be vital in kick-starting the tough steps needed to safeguard a healthy world – but the detail for how they will work will be important.
Scotland is eyeing another independence referendum and now Wales wants in on the act. England feels left behind and Northern Ireland is at the centre of the Brexit impasse. Things aren’t fine.
Donald Trump stepped back from launching US airstrikes inside Iran, but the conflict is unabated and there appears to be no way out of confrontation for now.
The US has imposed new sanctions against Iran’s top leaders, but its foreign policy has no clear focus.
Turkey and the EU are trading insults over the rights to exploit the huge gas reserves over the eastern Mediterranean island.
Maps that divide the world into ‘no-go’ and ‘safe’ zones has created a new politics of danger.
Accusations of skullduggery abound, and these findings won’t help matters.
The UK Court of Appeal ruled that the British government did not properly assess whether Saudi Arabia had violated international law. What this means for the arms trade.
The relationship between street slang used by young people and secret codes deployed by gang members is not always straightforward.
Conservative members will now vote on which of the two candidates will become their party leader – and the prime minister.
When the government shunted its responsibility on to the BBC, it turned the national broadcaster into a welfare agency – now it can’t afford it.
Sergio Moro, the judge in charge of the Operation Car Wash corruption investigation, and Brazil’s new justice minister, is at the centre of his own scandal.
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have been stuck in makeshift camps for years. They are now being targeted by criminal gangs, alongside public health and well-being issues.
Successful communication is about understanding feelings.