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What Taiwan's imprisonment of opposition figure Ko Wen-je means for its political landscape

Explainer
Asia / Pacific

Financial analysts move to counter Trump’s Middle East war uncertainty with ‘TACO’ index

Analysis
Economy

Moscow and St Petersburg internet blackouts raise fears of Kremlin surveillance

Explainer
Europe

Russian oil tanker nears Cuba in test of US resolve on blockade

Analysis
Americas

Lukashenko 'not an independent actor’: opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya on why Belarus needs Russia

Interview
Europe

Iran targets US public opinion with online information war

Analysis
Middle East

‘Raulito’ Castro, the Trump administration’s wild card in Cuba

Analysis
Americas

Emmanuel Grégoire elected Paris mayor, succeeding fellow left-winger Anne Hidalgo

France

French far right wins towns, loses in cities as mayoral vote kicks off race to succeed Macron

Analysis
France

Streamlining the kill chain: how AI is changing modern warfare

Analysis
Middle East

'Harm at a population level': World Happiness Report flags social media's negative impact

Explainer
Technology

French Socialists split over alliance with hard-left party in mayoral runoffs

Explainer
France

Why Hungary's Viktor Orban is vilifying Ukraine before crucial elections

Analysis
Europe

'Not a one-person regime': Why Iran's Islamic Republic is so hard to topple

Interview
Middle East

Justice for Syria’s disappeared: When survivors take charge

On the ground
Middle East

Socialist leads Paris mayoral race but leftist rival threatens to split vote

France

French far right eyes Marseille upset after strong showing in mayoral elections

France

Shark nets planned for €100 million Club Med resort threaten endangered species in South Africa

Investigation
Africa

The race for Paris: Why France’s capital has likely gone green for good

France

Mideast war puts Lebanon's patients and hospitals at risk

On the ground
Middle East

The race for Paris: Will more armed police and more cameras make the city safer?

Analysis
France

From Sudan to Lebanon: ‘Wherever we go, war follows us’

On the ground
Middle East

‘I left everything for my grandchildren’: In Beirut, displaced families exhausted by endless war

On the ground
Middle East

The race for Paris: How the capital’s housing crisis could determine the city’s next mayor

Analysis
France

Kharg Island: Iran’s ‘untouchable’ oil artery?

Explainer
Middle East

Khamenei replaces Khamenei: Iran defies Trump, signals continuity

Analysis
Middle East

Iran's Azeris fear ethnic strife, sucking Turkey and Azerbaijan into the war

Analysis
Middle East

‘Self-destructive, suicidal’: In Lebanon, anger rises against Hezbollah amid Israeli strikes

Analysis
Middle East

‘Panic and fear’: Iran’s political prisoners face increasing danger amid US-Israel war

Analysis
Middle East

US reaches out to Iran’s Kurds, but will they also be ‘hung out to dry’?

Analysis
Middle East

From Ukraine to Iran, kamikaze drones are becoming indispensable to modern warfare

Explainer
Middle East

Former hostage Louis Arnaud discusses life in Evin prison – and his fears for Iran’s future

Interview
France

US-Israeli strikes on Iran put China’s energy security at risk

Interview
Middle East

US hails progress on Haiti's anti-gang force, but elections face steep hurdles

Analysis
Americas

Pakistan-Afghanistan 'open war': How and why we got here

Explainer
Asia / Pacific

Brothers-in-arms: How Modi and Netanyahu are bringing India and Israel closer together

Analysis
Middle East

After El Mencho's death, what lies ahead for Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel?

Analysis
Americas

New Louvre director tasked with leading a beleaguered landmark out of decades of crisis

Profile
Culture

Trump’s marathon State of Union: Big claims and the questions he left unanswered

Analysis
Americas

From prison to Paris: Ambassador Charles Kushner at the centre of a Franco-American rift

Profile
Americas

How Russia’s 'thousand cuts' tactic is straining Ukraine’s frontline forces

Europe

'Love doesn't die with death': How four years of war have reshaped relationships in Ukraine

Interview
Europe

A Russian passport, a mother's vigil for Ukraine's children

Interview
Europe

How the death of far-right activist Quentin Deranque became France’s ‘Charlie Kirk moment’

Analysis
France

Never-before-seen photos of Nazi executions in Greece surface on eBay

Explainer
Europe

'A very MAGA agenda': Is Trump’s Board of Peace meant to replace the United Nations?

Interview
Americas

What day again? French Muslims confused and frustrated over rival Ramadan dates

Explainer
France

Who is Vladimir Medinsky, the nationalist historian leading Russia’s peace talks delegation?

Profile
Europe

Why Russia may have turned to dart‑frog toxin epibatidine to poison Navalny

Analysis
Europe

’Ready to govern’ Hungary: Former ally Magyar challenges Orban with Europe gun

Explainer
Europe

Paris mayoral hopeful Dati takes campaign inspiration from New York’s Mamdani

Analysis
France

Writing for survival: Gaza author dares to hope against the odds

Long read
Middle East

Arundhati Roy boycotts Berlin fest premiere of her revamped 1980s cult classic – the film shows why

Analysis
Culture

Politics, penis injections, broken medals: A week of controversy at the Winter Olympics

Explainer
Sport

Macron courts controversy by appointing loyalists to lead key French institutions

Analysis
France

'Democracy loses out': France sinks to new low in annual global corruption index

Explainer
France

Sanae Takaichi: Japan’s ‘Iron Maiden’ PM rises – again

Profile
Asia / Pacific

Super Bowl 2026: Cultural takeaways and what it says about the USA today

Retrospective
Americas

Betting on catastrophe: the dizzying rise of prediction markets

Analysis
Economy

The demise of the French ‘tabac’: How bar closures are fuelling Le Pen’s far right

Analysis
France

Port dispute thrusts Panama Canal back into heart of US-China rivalry

Analysis
Americas

No food, no shelter, no money: the daily fight for survival in Gaza

Explainer
Middle East

How a Jewish family’s Baghdad home became France’s rent-free embassy

Explainer
Middle East

Digital sovereignty (3/3): Are European citizens trapped into using US Big Tech?

Analysis
Technology

Digital sovereignty (2/3): Can Europe’s businesses survive without US Big Tech?

Analysis
Technology

Digital sovereignty (1/3): Have Trump’s threats spurred a European awakening?

Analysis
Technology

Are the West's tightening oil sanctions finally taking their toll on Russia’s economy?

Analysis
Europe

‘Essential’ to ICE: French IT giant Capgemini under fire over migrant tracking role

Analysis
France

Warships and fighter jets: What is the 'massive' US armada on its way to Iran?

Explainer
Middle East

Why Spain is offering amnesty to 500,000 undocumented migrants

Explainer
Europe

‘As in wartime’: Iranian doctors recount deadly crackdown on protesters

Analysis
Asia / Pacific

‘We are just not stopping’: How Minnesotans turned the tables on ICE

Analysis
Americas