Media Coverage

Some Western media outlets are facing backlash from Iranian activists over headlines printed Sunday saying that Iran was abolishing its “morality police.” The news—an interpretation of a comment by an Iranian official during a press conference—turned out to be anything but clear cut. The country’s...

Armenia and Hungary have agreed to restore diplomatic relations on December 1 following a 10-year break resulting from Budapest’s controversial extradition to Azerbaijan of a murderer of an Armenian soldier. In February, a Hungarian delegation visited Armenia and announced a cooperation program with...

The November 20 polls witnessed a wave of youngsters challenging the hegemony of the old guard of Nepali politics. While a handful of them won, many others secured substantial votes, with some of them even competing against popular leaders in their long-held constituencies. Political analyst Bishnu...

The president says peace talks have led to an agreement to allow the Indigenous Embera community to return to its lands. Petro did not say when the Embera would return to their lands in the departments of Choco and Risaralda in western Colombia. They had fled violence between drug gangs, outlawed...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has said 272 civilians were killed in a massacre in the eastern town of Kishishe last week, raising the death toll from a previous estimate of 50, which the government blames on the M23 rebel group. The UN’s peacekeeping mission in the DRC denounced reports...

Egypt announced late on November 24 the release of 30 political activists from jail, the latest in a series of mass releases from detention amid intensifying international scrutiny over the country's human rights record. Since 2013, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government has cracked...

The European Union will try to set up a specialized court, backed by the United Nations, to investigate and prosecute possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday. Ukraine has been pushing for the creation of a special...

Only elections can lead Afghanistan out of political crisis, even if they legitimize Taliban rule, Afghan anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Massoud told a conference in Tajikistan on Wednesday. Massoud, exiled leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, made a rare public appearance at an...

The prominent Guatemalan investigative newspaper “El Periodico” announced Wednesday that it is stopping its print edition, after the government arrested the paper’s president. All the paper’s reporters have been let go, and it is not clear how it can continue with digital editions only. The...

Following a recommendation from The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission final report, the government has sought to collaborate with the University of The Gambia to establish the Center of Excellence in Transitional Justice and Sustainable Peace. The Center has now been created...