Fighting on Yemen’s west coast has prompted thousands of people to flee by boat across the Bab al-Mandab Strait to Djibouti over the last ten days. The BBC’s Frank Gardner visited a refugee camp in Obock, a small port town where officials are preparing for the arrival of up to 10,000 refugees. The UN International
I recently came across a statistic that sent chills down my spine, having been born in a communist country. According to a recent Cato Institute Survey, four in ten (38%) 18-to-29-year-olds (and almost a third of 30-to-44-year-olds) are favorable towards communism. Communism’s appeal among Gen Z is twice as high as among 45-54 year olds,
Back at the end of June, the two teenagers had gone to the beach on Venezuela’s Caribbean coastline. Winder wanted to take their 10-year-old brother Moissés, but he was grounded. “I kept insisting but my mum just wouldn’t budge,” he says. As they were heading home on the evening of the 24th, earthquakes of magnitude
In early 2024, Nadezhdin attempted to run as a presidential candidate on an anti-war manifesto, calling for an end to the hostilities in Ukraine. At the time, he told the BBC that he was supported by “dozens of millions of people” who did not want “Russia to be in this track of authoritarianism and militarism”.
Dong, a police officer turned human rights activist, has been jailed in China several times for his activism. In 1999, Dong was fired from the police after 13 years because he signed a petition to mark the 10th anniversary of the brutal Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. Then, in 2001, he was jailed for three
