Middle East crisis live: UN chief calls for Israel-Lebanon ceasefire to be ‘fully’ respected as it comes into effect
António Guterres welcomes truce and says he hopes halt in fighting will ‘pave the way for negotiations’
How the Kremlin Turned a MAGA Influencer Trip Into an Influence Operation
A report of Alliance4Europe and an investigation by Vsquare and Context. ro uncovered that a 10-day trip to Moldova and Moscow by a group of MAGA influencers from the US, Canada, and the UK was used in a Russian online info operation.
Defeating authoritarians: Notes from the Hungarian playbook
What can progressives everywhere learn from Magyar’s historic victory over Orbán’s anti-democratic regime?
Radical Mothering
A woman is giving birth. Her hopes, fears, and pains are her own, but her experience is universal, shaped by the society in which she lives. She could be the wealthy wife of an Athenian citizen, or a Victorian ‘fallen woman’.
ELMAA Summer School on European Union Law
The Summer School on European Union Law will take place from 27 to 31 July 2026 in Corfu Island (Greece), with the topic ‘The EU as a global actor: legal foundations and challenges’, and applications are now open.
The Fossil Fuel System Is Collapsing – and Taking Civilisation’s Safety Net With It
The Iran war is accelerating an irreversible breakdown of a system on which every hospital, harvest and factory depends - and only a rapid transition to energy superabundance can save us, argues Nafeez Ahmed, Divyesh Desai and Sandrine Dixson-Decleve
How the US-Israel war on Iran is affecting African economies
For some, the impact is already being felt but others remain in limbo over their energy security and are hostage to an unlikely de-escalation
Meet the investigative journalist ‘under Orbán’s skin’ on the eve of Hungary’s elections
Hungarian journalist Szabolcs Panyi uncovered explosive evidence that the country’s foreign minister had offered favours to the Kremlin. On the eve of hotly contested elections, the government responded by accusing him of espionage and threatening jail time.
Nato expansion ‘would provoke Russians’, UK understood
Britain’s military has stated hundreds of times that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked”, but declassified files tell a different story
More than £1bn pledged for Sudan as humanitarian crisis deepens
Donors exceed funding target at Berlin conference but prospects for ceasefire remain distant
Strong pro-Israel bias among BBC bosses, new data indicates
BBC executives met nine times with pro-Israel Jewish groups and just once with pro-Palestinians in 14 months of genocide, Freedom of Information shows
Media coverage of violence against women reaches ‘dismal’ low, report finds
Analysis finds stories citing terms of misogynistic abuse fell to 1.3% of global online news in 2025
Suspense and pretense: The RN prepares for life after Le Pen
Pending the July 7 court decision that will determine whether Marine Le Pen can stand in elections, the far-right party must prepare for the 2027 presidential campaign without knowing whether she or Jordan Bardella will be its candidate.
Zeit- und Medienkritik nach Jean-François Lyotard
In einer Reflexion über das „Inhumane“ aus dem Jahr 1988 skizzierte Jean-François Lyotard, Denker der Postmoderne, eine bedenkliche Diagnose seiner Zeit. Schon damals lösten nach ihm wissenschaftliche und mediale Entwicklungen die Gegenwart zunehmend auf.
Debatte: USA blockieren Straße von Hormus
Nach den vorerst gescheiterten Friedensverhandlungen mit dem Iran hat das US-Militär damit begonnen, die Straße von Hormus zu blockieren. Nach eigenen Angaben habe man in den ersten 24 Stunden sechs aus dem Iran kommende Handelsschiffe zum Umkehren gezwungen.
Krieg nach kolonialer Logik
Der US-Präsident droht, die Iraner in die Steinzeit zurückzubomben, „wo sie hingehören“. Das lässt an Hiroshima und Vietnam denken. Trumps offener Rassismus erinnert aber auch an das Kolonialzeitalter, das noch kein Völkerrecht kannte.
Rohstoffe schürfen wie zu Sowjetzeiten
In Kasachstan liegen einige jener „Monostädte“, die in der UdSSR in Gebieten mit extraktiven Industrien aus dem Boden gestampft wurden. Heutzutage gelten für viele von ihnen die Regeln von Sonderwirtschaftszonen. Umwelt und Arbeiter werden ausgebeutet wie eh und je.
Hungary’s election was a false dawn for Europe
Nationalism is not dead on the continent. It's barely begun.
Germany becomes premium partner in the Ukraine war
By signing strategic defence agreements with Ukraine, the German government has reached a new dimension of war involvement, says Sevim Dagdelen
Belgorod: Russlands Krieg kehrt heim (1/2)
Die südrussische Regionalhauptstadt Belgorod ist ein wichtiges Militärzentrum in Russlands Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine seit 2022. Das macht es zum Ziel des ukrainischen Verteidigungskampfes gegen den Aggressor.
