WorldParrhesia ExclusiveFeature Francesca Marino examines why women are assuming increasingly visible roles in Balochistan’s conflict, and why Islamabad’s explanations leave their convictions, and the state’s own repression, unexamined.
A question at King’s College London opened a debate about propaganda, national identity and the danger of mistaking public compliance for private belief.
The agency’s 2026–27 appeal combines separate planning estimates for Ukraine, Syria, Lebanon and Afghanistan and seeks to raise at least $50 million.
European diplomats threatened to leave the planned photo session rather than appear alongside Russia’s foreign minister; the Atlanta talks are continuing.
WorldParrhesia ExclusiveFeature Squeezed between India, China and a collapsing relationship with the Taliban, Islamabad is betting on neutrality, defence pacts and arms exports — but its legitimacy deficit at home may matter more.
Asim Munir arrived in Tehran on October 20 to discuss mediation with President Masoud Pezeshkian, bringing an assurance about a problem his own government had helped create.
Ukrainian officials reported at least two dead and 34 wounded; Russia’s figure for intercepted drones is a claim by its Defence Ministry.
The overnight missile and drone attacks hit several regions as Ukraine’s president met European leaders and a US envoy to discuss air defences and weapons production.
Francesca Marino examines what a new EU asylum assessment reveals about the porous networks linking Pakistan’s militant landscape and the blowback now directed at Afghanistan.
The World Health Organization has asked Russia for more information after a worker at an anti-plague institute died following severe pneumonia; no outbreak has been confirmed.
A guided bomb reportedly exploded beside buses at a stop in Kramatorsk as fresh strikes damaged Ukraine’s energy system and deepened fears of winter outages.
A planned PTI march on Islamabad may be contained at the gates of the capital, but Arun Anand argues that the political cost of containment is increasingly borne by Pakistan's military establishment.
Moscow's latest missile and drone attacks are testing Ukraine's air defences as Kyiv races to develop faster interceptors and seeks more Patriot systems.
The detention of Imran Khan's sisters, the re-arrest of Imaan Mazari-Hazir and the targeting of Baloch women expose a widening use of state power against women who refuse to be politically silenced.
Kabul says armed groups crossed into eastern Nuristan and blames Pakistani support; Islamabad rejects the allegation, while Reuters says the account and casualty figures could not be independently verified.
The White House summit delivered ceremony and a longer tariff pause, but no public breakthrough on the disputes shaping the US–China rivalry.
As airstrikes and civilian deaths recur across the border, Pakistan’s military narrative is colliding with evidence of a conflict it has failed to contain.
Russian strikes killed civilians in Kharkiv and Kyiv hours after Ukraine’s president called on leaders to target Moscow’s war revenues.
The leaders' meeting is not expected to deliver a grand bargain, but both sides have reasons to keep communication open while competition intensifies.
Overnight attacks hit several Ukrainian regions while Kyiv reported damage to another Russian oil refinery, sharpening the backdrop to a high-stakes meeting.
The US president is back at the United Nations as leaders confront two wars, an unsettled global economy and a widening argument over the institution's role.
Authorities have ended the search for 37 people missing after a passenger ferry sank in rough seas, with 39 people believed to have died.
A collapse that killed 21 people, including 11 children, has drawn attention to the unsafe buildings and stalled reconstruction facing Palestinians nearly a year after the ceasefire.
Ukraine’s president welcomed leaders and representatives from seven neighbouring countries as overnight Russian attacks caused fires, deaths and injuries.
Iran said it struck a Togo-flagged tanker, while a UK maritime monitor reported a tanker hit by an unknown projectile and said the crew was safe.
Ukrainian officials said a strike near Nikopol killed five people and wounded at least seven, as attacks continued close to the frontline.
Ursula von der Leyen says the bloc needs a NATO-like way to coordinate responses to drones, sabotage and cyberattacks that fall below open warfare.
The new assembly voted to end the Counter-Terrorism Court and nullify the legal effects of its rulings, opening a difficult question over restitution and accountability.
Rescuers searched through a collapsed seven-storey building in Gaza City after at least 20 people died and dozens more were feared trapped.
