Global Voices

Hong Kong’s national security laws must be constantly improved to close loopholes, a former top Beijing official on the city’s affairs has said. China and Hong Kong flags fill the streets in Hong Kong ahead of July 1, 2025, the 28th...

The WHO-led Women’s Integrated Cancer Services Program; the pilot programs were first implemented in Kenya in the Bungoma and Nyandarua counties. Credit: WHO/Yasin Abdullahi By Shuli Wong UNITED NATIONS, Jul 15 2026 (IPS) One in five people will be diagnosed with cancer in...

Pride Parade participants march on the Elisabeth bridge in Budapest, Hungary on 27 June 2026. Credit: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP By Inés M. Pousadela MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jul 15 2026 (IPS) On the morning of 28 June, riot police sealed off Taksim Square with iron barriers...

A national security police officer has been sentenced to 20 months and four weeks behind bars for taking upskirt photos and attempting to grab another officer’s gun when he was taken to the police station over the incident. West Kowloon Magistrates’...

Spain ended France's dream of a third World Cup triumph on Tuesday, taming their star-studded attack in a 2-0 victory to reach the final against England or Argentina. Didier Deschamps' men were hot favourites to lift the trophy after a string...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly scrapped a planned 20 percent levy on ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz amid clashes with Iran, saying he would instead seek compensation from Gulf allies via trade deals. Trump said Middle Eastern leaders...

US forces carried out strikes against Iran for a fourth day in a row on Tuesday and reimposed a naval blockade to prevent ships from sailing to or from the country's ports. While US President Donald Trum backtracked on his threat...

Lebanon and Israel concluded the first day of Washington-mediated talks in Rome on Tuesday, a US official said, as Israel said it was ready to move forward with plans to withdraw from two parts of southern Lebanon . The US-brokered negotiations...

British prime minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham backed Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's controversial immigration crackdown in a parliamentary vote on Monday night. The wide-ranging bill would make it easier for authorities to deport asylum seekers and impose a "refugee tax" in return for...

PEN America has insisted it continues to defend Palestinian writers and regards Israel's actions in Gaza as "a genocide", after its outgoing president accused the organisation of sidelining Palestinians and resigned in protest, the organisation told The New Arab on...

The author of ‘Empire of AI’, a book about OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, discusses technology, power and sovereignty. Alessio Giussani is the editor-in-chief of the Green European Journal . He was formerly contributing editor of Eurozine (Vienna) and a...

NATO 3.0, where European countries do the heavy-lifting of arms spending to keep the US happy, is under construction. Dr. Joseph Gerson is the president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security; co-president of the International Peace Bureau; and...

Restoring some semblance of a moral core to the Labour Party won’t be easy, but is politically necessary for Andy Burnham. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and...

GAZA, (PIC) When a residential apartment is reduced to rubble within minutes, and when a doctor leaves an operating room only to find the hospital itself under threat, the issue is no longer about abstract numbers or “collateral damage.” Israel’s assault on...

Sunday marked a decade since an Arbitral Tribunal at The Hague handed a near total victory to the Philippines, a U.S. treaty ally, in its maritime dispute with China. Despite the ruling, the dispute has escalated in recent years with...

As the United States marks 250 years since its founding as an anti-colonial republic, its global power and democratic system are facing a profound crisis, according to Khalil Jahshan, executive director of Arab Center Washington DC. In an interview conducted byThe...

England captain Harry Kane has displayed a "clear double standard" by speaking out on Qatar before the 2022 World Cup while warmly discussing Donald Trump and remaining silent on controversies surrounding this year's tournament, British-Palestinian commentator Hamza Yusuf told The...

By Vani S. Kulkarni PHILADELPHIA, Jul 14 2026 (IPS) Ask why so many Indian classrooms struggle, and the answers arrive in the language of audit: Too few trained teachers, too many vacancies, weak colleges of education and low accountability. Each of these...

It’s no secret that the climate negotiations are failing. The simple fact is that the carbon concentration of the atmosphere continues to rise, rapidly and along a pathway that threatens—but does not yet guarantee—true catastrophe. That said, there’s little agreement on...

On June 30, the U.S. Congress held its first hearings in 49 years on the Cold War-era mind control program known as MKULTRA. Prior to this latest meeting of Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s Task Force on the Declassification of...

BEIRUT, (PIC) Anxiety inside Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps is no longer limited to shrinking healthcare and education services provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). As calls to sideline or replace the agency intensify, refugees are...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump “acted in bad faith” when he swiftly dropped his tax return lawsuit and directed his Cabinet members to establish a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, a federal judge in Florida ruled Monday. Federal Judge Kathleen Williams of...

US President Donald Trump has threatened to strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, home to a heavily fortified underground complex linked to Tehran's nuclear programme that has not been inspected by international monitors since construction began in late 2020. Nuclear experts told The...

“In one of the executive orders , President Trump described the coal industry as beautiful,” said Robert L. Levy, ExxonMobil’s executive counsel, at a 2025 event organized by the Federalist Society . “No such reference to the beauty of the oil...

The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . The recent swathe of electoral victories by the Democratic Socialists of America has provoked a predictably delicious meltdown throughout the political establishment. James Carville is apoplectic . Centrist Democrats are suddenly...

Syria's new authorities had exactly five days to sit with the shock of one attack before another followed . On 2 July, a bomb tore through a popular café near the Justice Palace in central Damascus, killing ten people. The day...