Many of those in detention were arrested in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election. The National Electoral Council (CNE) – which is dominated by government loyalists – declared the incumbent, Nicolás Maduro, the winner of the election even though copies of the voting tallies collected by the opposition and verified by independent media suggested
The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed sanctions on additional aspects of Iran’s aviation industry, targeting more than two dozen commercial and private airlines as well as foreign cargo service providers in its new push to isolate Tehran from its remaining trading partners. The latest actions are part of the Trump administration’s Operation Economic Outcast campaign
“A worker can oppose capitalism while still being forced to sell labor and buy necessities,” the reader wrote to me, “just as a prisoner can oppose incarceration while remaining confined.” Buying a secondhand jacket or a $5 treat—or waiting on a long line in a bout of “democratized snobbery” or “conspicuous waiting”—doesn’t abolish wages, rent,
Rescue teams in Pakistan are carrying out a second day of search for climbers caught in an avalanche on the world’s 12th-highest summit. Among the seven still missing from the 10-person expedition on Broad Peak, on the border with China, is renowned Nepal-born climber Nirmal Purja. The operation has expanded with local Pakistani climbers volunteering,
