There is little justice amid America’s spiralling opioid crisis. Drug companies get rich, addicts die. For the devastated families left behind, there’s scant hope of recourse, just an unending blame-game defined by a single question: who led their loved one...
Spotting the Afghan trucks trundling towards the frontier, Iran’s border guards will have felt little surprise. Deadly clashes with drug smugglers are commonplace – their war-torn neighbour is the world’s leading opium producer, with much of the substance passing through...
A mutual enemy ought to bring old adversaries together. When the joint foe is a nuclear-armed autocrat, that’s especially true. But Kim Jong-un’s atomic appetite has done little to unite the two regional powers most immediately threatened – South Korea...
What drives a young man from his privileged life to the killing fields of Syria and Iraq? Morality, says Jack Letts – “why do I have this nice life, and others don’t?” – and a sense of Muslim duty. He...
Maroun el-Ras, Lebanon – Local farmers pensively inspect their crops, no doubt fearing the worst. Some of the tobacco and olive fields are still smouldering, but for the most part, the flames have been quelled. Tensions with the apparent arsonist,...
The barren wasteland of Pokhran, birthplace of India’s atomic weapons programme, is more accustomed to explosive material than incendiary rhetoric. That wasn’t the case last week. India’s sworn commitment to fire missiles only in retaliation, the cornerstone of its nuclear...
Face down on the concrete, arms limp at her side, an elderly woman lies unconscious. Debris from the scuffle – shoes and hats, mostly – lie around her; and in the background, baton wielding blue-helmeted men watch on. Just one...
Boris Johnson’s Brexit drama has become a tale of two Donalds. On one side is a man much like himself – loud, brazen and unpredictable. On the other, quite a different character – ponderous, deliberate and concise. The former, Donald...
The fortunes of Kasungu National Park’s elephants reflect the species’ suffering across Africa. A thousand gentle giants roamed the Malawian grassland in 1977; forty years later, just eighty remain. Spurred by the lucrative trade in illicit ivory, poaching is rampant....
We’re in the calm before the storm. Soon, dark clouds of economic misery will burst, and a tidal wave of poverty will consume the planet. That’s what the experts are saying, anyway. A new global recession is in the offing,...
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