Was the Gulf blindsided on Iran?
As Israel and the US continued to bomb Iran after killing the country's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, Iran lashed out at its neighbours with multiple drone strikes, including against the US embassy in ...
5 Maalis 28min
South Korea's birth rate is rising, but the population is still shrinking
South Korea’s very low birth rate and ageing population have long served as a cautionary tale for other governments worried that they’ll see similar demographic challenges.But now, for the second year...
26 Helmi 28min
The 'national humiliation' behind Russia's war on Ukraine
As the 21st century dawned, a newly-elected Vladmir Putin was making friends on the world stage. He smiled for photo ops at G8 meetings, and was the first foreign leader to call George W. Bush after t...
19 Helmi 24min
How Minneapolis is organising against ICE
Whenever federal immigration agents pull up to a location in Minneapolis, people take their whistles out, start blowing them and start filming.In December, US government sent more than 2,000 Immigrati...
12 Helmi 25min
The Super Bowl that kickstarted prop betting in America
Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest night in American sports. A popular destination to watch – and bet – on the Super Bowl is Las Vegas, Nevada.And it was in Las Vegas, ahead of the 1986 Super Bowl betwe...
5 Helmi 23min
How Iran shut down the internet
On January 8, as thousands of Iranians took to the streets in nationwide protests, the government cut off the internet. Under cover of digital darkness, the Iranian regime launched a brutal and deadly...
29 Tammi 28min
A lost US military base under Greenland's ice sheet
In the summer of 1959, a group of American soldiers began carving trenches in the Greenland ice sheet. Those trenches would become the snow covered tunnels of Camp Century, a secret Arctic research ba...
22 Tammi 27min
A new treaty to protect our oceans
In a moment being celebrated by global marine conservationists, a new UN high seas treaty comes into force on January 17 providing a new way to govern the world's oceans.The UN high seas treaty will a...
15 Tammi 21min
