In our quest to understand the world, there are no countries we want to shy away from. We spent quite some time contemplating this one, but eventually felt called to go and go look human stories like ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years o ...

The so-called 'elections' have come to an end in Belarus. Readers of independent media and foreign journalists reporting from ...

Here’s a look at the life of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Personal Birth date: August 30, 1954 (some sources say August 31) Birth place: Kopys, Belarus Full name: Alexander Grigorievich ...

That day, I went to the polling station not to vote, but to see with my own eyes how this so-called "expression of the will ...

The most interesting articles and a selection of important news in the evenings ...

The Nicaraguan dictatorship has forced the Poor Clare nuns to leave their monasteries in Managua and Chinandega in an action described by a well-known researcher as a ...

Since Islamist rebels overthrew the Assad dictatorship in Syria, Egypt, with parallels in its own recent history, has watched warily. By Vivian Yee Reporting from Cairo Soon after Islamist rebels ...

Last week, a man at an automobile plant said that he hadn’t been following an election campaign very closely because he’d ...

The majority of young people in the UK are in favour of turning the country into a dictatorship, according to the results of a new survey that say Gen Z are simultaneously the “most ...