A new report commissioned by the European Parliament is calling for the European Union to adopt a far more assertive stance ...

The EU has made some progress since China Targets was publishe in April 2025. In November, the European Parliament passed a ...

SACRAMENTO, CA — California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed Senate Bill 509, a contentious measure that sought to mandate law enforcement training on “transnational repression,” following months of ...

For a brief moment, some Venezuelans allowed themselves to celebrate. When they learned Saturday that strongman Nicolás Maduro had been seized by US Special Forces, many group chats filled with ...

This article was reported with the help of journalists in Venezuela whose names The Times is withholding for their safety. Government officials led a large crowd of Venezuelans through Caracas, the ...

Security forces have boarded buses, searched phones and interrogated people, looking for evidence that they welcomed the capture of Nicolás Maduro. By Jack Nicas This article was reported with the ...

The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate said on Thursday that the Israeli military and government continued throughout 2025 a systematic policy of targeting Palestinian journalists through arbitrary ...

Joshua Kurlantzick is a senior fellow for Southeast Asia and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Annabel Richter is a research associate for Southeast Asia and South Asia at CFR. In ...

The magpies appear in the first scene of “Cannon,” in a darkened restaurant littered with broken furniture and plates. I count twenty-one birds, perched and staring. Two figures, the titular Cannon ...

A leading Iranian rights activist and Nobel laureate said state suppression in the Islamic Republic is getting worse as the country faces multiple crises, including regional isolation and a ...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned on Friday that the Myanmar military junta’s planned elections could only worsen repression and instability rather than restore ...

Venezuela is entering one of its most repressive periods in years, rights monitors say, as President Nicolás Maduro faces mounting isolation and an expanding US military presence in the Caribbean.