When Sexism Endangers Lives: In Israel, Sidelining Women Comes at the Cost of Security

The October 7th massacre and the unprecedented war in Gaza compel Israel to rethink its conception of security. It cannot afford to do so without including a gender-based analysis. After two years of missiles, hostages, and the catastrophic toll...

Russia plans information operations to destabilize the situation in the Balkans

Russia is preparing new information operations aimed at destabilizing the situation in the Western Balkans, said research fellow Ivana Stradner from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), as reported by TVP World. According to her, the...

Ranked: The World’s Largest Economies in 2026

Ranked: The World’s Largest Economies in 2026 See visuals like this from many other data creators on our Voronoi app. Download it for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Key...

John Feffer: America’s Disappeared

October 22, 2025 – The Trump administration aspires to deport a million people in its first year of office. The president has also spoken of the more ambitious goal of deporting 15-20 million undocumented people overall, even if that category...

Seeding the Personnel of the Military Corporate State, Part Two

In recent reports, Restoration News investigated former Democratic intelligence officers who have entered politics in the Trump era with the explicit intention of protecting the intelligence services and the larger military corporate complex from...

Pride of Britain Awards 2025 winners in full

The ceremony, which was held earlier in the week, is being broadcast on ITV1 (Image: Steve Bainbridge) The Pride of Britain Awards is back for another year to celebrate the remarkable accomplishments of everyday individuals from across the UK....

Blue Helmets, Indian blueprint

The United Nations Troop Contributing Countries’ (UNTCC) Chiefs’ Conclave 2025, held from October 14 to 16 in New Delhi, marked a watershed in global peacekeeping cooperation. Hosted for the first time by the Army, the event brought together...

Labor Shortage, Low Productivity Increase Risks

The Governor of the Bank of Albania, Gent Sejko, participated on Friday in the International Scientific Conference, on the topic "Demographic changes and labor market dynamics - challenges of sustainable economic development in Albania, Kosovo and...

Cyprus’ Council of EU presidency to focus on bloc’s enlargement

Cyprus’ six-month term as the holder of the Council of the European Union’s rotating presidency will focus on plans to enlarge the EU, according to a draft programme for the term seen by the Cyprus Mail on Thursday. “Enlargement is a geopolitical...

This is how an AK-47 works

Get We Are The Mighty’s Weekly Newsletter Military culture and entertainment direct to your inbox with zero chance of a ‘Reply All’ incident The idea wasn’t born out of a James Bond-esque research and development, or a state-of-the-art factory. It...

Keira Walsh fires Chelsea top as Arsenal return to winning ways in WSL

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

The EU’s Strategic Mistake

“Securing reliable supplies of critical raw materials is a strategic priority for Europe’s resilience and competitiveness as it is essential for the modernisation of our economy […]. With this approach, we contribute to prosperity and stability in...

Trump, Gaza and Timor-Leste: Could the upcoming ASEAN Summit be its most significant in years?

The biggest newsmaker at the summit will no doubt be Trump, said analysts, adding that his presence is significant for ASEAN and shows the bloc is an important diplomatic platform. “Symbolically, it signals that Southeast Asia remains within...

1997–2025: When The West Is Distracted, China Advances

Authored by Tamuz Itai via The Epoch Times, For nearly three decades, the Western world has hardly had a calm time—terrorist attacks, wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, financial meltdowns, pandemics, and deepening political fractures. Each has...

Where in Europe do people feel least safe walking alone at night?

People feel less safe walking alone at night in Italy and France than in dozens of other countries, including Iraq, Rwanda, and Bangladesh, according to a new report. In fact, the 2025 edition of The Global Safety Report features only one European...

Grim forecasts from the White House

Twice, the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has admitted that he placed the foreign-policy interests of others above the interests of the citizens of Serbia. The first time in May 2022, when he stated that we would “live ten times better had...

So you attended 'No Kings'. Now what?

Nonviolent resistance has proven more effective in toppling autocracies than violent, armed struggle. But it requires more than street demonstrations. Tactics used by pro-democracy movements across the world include bolstering the rule of law,...

“Those who have money to campaign are the ones with the billboards on six-story buildings.”

The lists of candidates for mayor in Kosovo’s 2025 local elections once again fail to reflect gender balance. Out of a total of 206 candidates, only 20 are women, about 6.6%. Among the parties running for mayoral positions, the Democratic Party of...

The Speech A Press Club Banned

Above photo: Chris Hedges speaking in Sydney, Australia on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. Cathy Vogan. Hedges delivered the banned speech on Monday in Sydney. This talk is not sponsored by Raytheon, BAE Systems and Thales, which sell weapons to Israel to...

Of diversified intellects and Nobel peace

KUALA LUMPUR — Some readers may still recall my having mentioned that I majored in Germanic literature when I was in university. And within this great literary tradition — one of the most prominent in the world — the towering figure is none other...