Global Voices

As Europe’s population ages, the elderly are becoming an ever larger voting bloc, a growing “grey power” which is already reconfiguring political priorities. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist and researcher from Scotland, who lives in the Basque Country. Ben is...

The Paris Commune took place 155 years ago and only lasted 72 days but it still has valuable lessons to offer anyone thinking of making a revolution happen today. Kevin Guillas-Cavan is the France Research Fellow at the Institute for Economic...

The university system faces questions over its funding, value and purpose. Professor Dame Alison Wolf DBE, Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College London, and sits as a cross-bench peer...

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrated across Israel on Monday, blocking roads and trains and setting cars on fire to protest mandatory enlistment in Israel’s military. Israel’s police said demonstrators blocked major intersections and attacked a soldier...

As the White House proceeds full speed ahead on battleships that will bear President Donald Trump’s name, lawmakers want to know it won’t be a flop first. The House draft of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for FY 2027,...

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have hailed the 2026 Hajj as a public health success after the annual pilgrimage concluded without any confirmed or suspected cases of epidemic disease...

Egyptian up-and-coming talent Hamza Abdelkarim has signed an exclusive deal with sports manufacturer Nike , thrusting him into the limelight as he prepares to head to the World Cup with the Pharaohs for the upcoming FIFA...

Palestinian Christian activists and church leaders have raised alarm over growing pressure on Christian communities in the occupied West Bank after Israeli soldiers attempted to halt preparations for a Marian festival in the village of Taybeh...

At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the US to the Israeli military more than ever before. Buried in the House's version...

Iranian military and political officials issued a series of warnings to Israel and the United States on Monday, threatening to open "new fronts" and hinting at possible military action if Israel continues expanding its devastating attacks in Lebanon . Iran's...

Israeli forces raised their flag over the historic Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon on Sunday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to portray the occupation of the hilltop site as a major victory, but continued Hezbollah...

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here . Leah Atwood was rattled. It was the tail end of March, and for days she and her colleagues at Agroecology Commons had been...

- - - - Photo by Tara-mae Miller on Unsplash As a gun rights guy, I have a lot of discussions with people about gun control, and I’m often told that gun rights should come with some...

Something strange happened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival: A number of French films were greeted with loud boos and cries of “Fascist!” The audiences were not booing the films themselves, or castigating the films’ directors. Rather, they were responding...

The racism of Mark Fuhrman , the Los Angeles police detective whose involvement in the O.J. Simpson murder investigation helped sink the prosecution’s case, was so well-known that comedian Dana Carvey once mocked him with a Nazi salute,...

Prominent Turkish-American political commentators Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker say they have been barred from entering the UK over their criticism of Israel, in a move that has sparked accusations that Britain is suppressing pro-Palestinian voices...

GAZA, (PIC) When the Palestinian scene is reduced to a round of aggression or breaking news, the most important element is lost: that the history of the Palestinian resistance is a long path shaped under British colonialism, deepened with the Nakba,...

A 70-year-old Lebanese man has remained trapped beneath the rubble of his home in southern Lebanon for days as rescue teams wait for clearance through the US-led ceasefire monitoring mechanism , in a case that has intensified...

Iran's Tasnim News Agency reported that the country's negotiating team has halted the exchange of messages with the US through mediators in response to attacks on Lebanon . According to Tasnim , no further talks will...

RAFAH, (PIC) In an area crowded with tens of thousands of displaced people in the south of the Gaza Strip, a safe space dedicated to psychosocial support for children and women was opened in Mawasi Rafah, in an attempt to alleviate...

In late May, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel controlled about 60 percent of Gaza's territory, and that he had instructed the Israeli military to expand that hold to 70 percent . His comments have reignited debate over...

A hospital in Kabul. Afghanistan faces an already dire shortage of female doctors as women medical graduates remain barred from taking the final exam required to practice medicine. Credti: Learning Together. By External Source KABUL, Jun 1 2026 (IPS) While Afghanistan...

Donald Trump’s America is a scary place in significant part thanks to an unholy alliance of MAGA devotees who don’t believe in science and see intellectuals as public enemy number one, and a gaggle of Silicon Valley militarists...

In the first step towards shifting aid further into the shadows, the House’s 2027 NDAA would all but fuse the two countries’ armed forces together. By Ben FREEMAN Join us on Telegram , Twitter , and VK . Contact us:...

BEIRUT, (PIC) Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli war minister Israel Katz said on Monday they had ordered the army to strike targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs, hours after Israel announced that one soldier had been killed and others wounded...

BETHLEHEM / PNN/ Monjed Jadou - The executive and advisory councils in Bethlehem held an emergency meeting to discuss ways to confront Israeli plans targeting the appropriation of the Solomon’s Pools archaeological site, amid official warnings of escalating settlement activity...

Far-right Israeli ministers accused of inciting violence against Palestinians attended New York's annual Israel Day Parade on Sunday, while Zohran Mamdani became the first New York mayor in more than six decades to skip the event. The parade, held...

France said on Monday it had detained a Russia-linked oil tanker in the Atlantic, with the Kremlin comparing the latest seizure aimed at tackling Moscow's sanctions-busting shadow fleet to "international piracy". Since September, France has boarded three other ships believed...

NATO’s Ukraine proxy war seeks to weaken Russia and topple Putin. To launch an economic, information and ground war, NATO needed Russia to invade. Now it needs Russia to attack a NATO nation to justify direct war. Watch the replay....

Two former Syrian intelligence officers accused of overseeing torture and abuses against opponents of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Raqqa are due to stand trial in Austria on Monday, in one of Europe's most significant cases against...