Iran’s central bank began distributing a 5,000,000-rial “Iran-cheque” on Sunday, describing it as a step to “facilitate the ...

Nature provides essential inputs to the economy through ecosystem services. In Asia and the Pacific, accelerating biodiversity loss is eroding these services, increasing vulnerability to shocks, and ...

Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea showed how spreading a narrative can erode sovereignty. The same playbook can now be seen ...

The wave of protests that rocked Iran earlier this month was one of the biggest challenges the Islamic Republic has faced ...

When we speak of the “Dey uprising” — Dey in the Iranian calendar roughly corresponds to late December through mid-January — ...

President Xi Jinping mobilized the government to impose strict ideological conformity and loyalty to him and the Chinese ...

European governments present themselves as global defenders of human rights. Yet for many dissidents fleeing repression in ...

Saudi Arabia and Türkiye stressed in a joint statement on Wednesday the importance of strengthening political and economic ...

Public protest is a core feature of democratic governance. From the labor uprisings of the Gilded Age through the Civil ...

Signs are multiplying that Ethiopia is entering a perilous turn. Political and armed factions in the Ogaden “Western Somalia” have announced their merger into a single entity under the name Somali ...