Gain, wait: Ukraine’s tentative push
Hints of the long campaign ahead are emerging, but all the operations so far are just drawing the eventual, full-scale battle lines. Cheap vaccinations could save millions of lives lost to cervical ca...
12 Juni 202325min
Charged up: Trump’s latest indictment
He is expected to be charged for failing to return classified documents and obstructing justice. The former president denies wrongdoing, and any possible convictions are still a long way away, but how...
9 Juni 202326min
No Khan do: Pakistan’s meddling army
The country’s military is renowned for political overreach. Now, its leaders are taking on former prime minister Imran Khan. Is violent unrest on the horizon? Why a new Polish law to rid the country o...
8 Juni 202324min
Not born yesterday: the world’s ageing population
Fertility rates are falling to worrying levels, and an older, smaller, global population is bad news for economic growth. Apple’s new headset could revolutionise the virtual reality world, but only if...
7 Juni 202326min
Dam and blast: Ukraine launches counter-offensive
After months of waiting, probing attacks have begun. A destroyed dam in Kherson suggests that Russia is upping the ante in response. But what else is in store? Uyghurs are still suffering in Xinjiang,...
6 Juni 202324min
Trouble in Shangri-La: Sino-American tensions escalate
At a meeting of defence ministers from the Asia-Pacific region, heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington were all too apparent. A naval spat in the Taiwan Strait looms large over relations. ...
5 Juni 202324min
League of her own: Sheikh Hasina’s grip on Bangladesh
Over two decades in office, the prime minister and her Awami League party have overseen impressive growth and reforms in a notoriously corrupt country—but that same firm hand may now be limiting Bangl...
2 Juni 202327min
On pain of death: Uganda’s anti-LGBT law
The country’s homophobes claim that homosexuality is a malign foreign import; in reality it was anti-LGBT groups from abroad who helped lay the ground for vicious new legislation. Starlink, a satellit...
1 Juni 202322min
