BRIAR STEWART - Journalist
Calls grow for Starmer to resign, as the shadow of Epstein still looms large over 10 Downing St.
For months, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his embattled Labour government have been dragged down by tough questions over why officials appointed Peter Mandelson, a close friend of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as ambassador to the U.S.
Now there are fresh calls for Starmer to resign after it was revealed that in 2025 the Foreign Office went against Mandelson’s failed security vetting and appointed him anyway.
The Kremlin has been throttling the internet and blaming security threats. Many Russians aren't buying it
Internet restrictions have increased throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which is now into its fifth year. As the Kremlin tries to keep up its narrative that the war was just and that Russia will prevail, it has tried to limit any online information contradicting that.
As airstrikes intensify, Iranians are flocking to the borders
Sandwiched between the barren mountains straddling the nearly 600-kilometre-long border between Iran and Turkey, families pull suitcases and push strollers through a heavily secured gate toward waiting taxis and vans. Some are fleeing Iran to escape the intensifying airstrikes while others are trying to enter the country to reunite with families.
With olive harvest underway, Palestinian farmers fear Israeli settler attacks
As Abdel Kareem Na'ssan stands on the edge of an olive grove near the village of Al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank, he is visibly uncomfortable. The farmer's eyes scan the ridge line of rugged hills at the outposts belonging to Israeli settlers.
Facing exhaustion and North Korean troops, Ukraine's soldiers say the war needs to end
As soldiers fighting for Ukraine try to hold onto the hundreds of square kilometres they seized in Russia's Kursk region in August, some describe facing relentless waves of determined North Korean troops, Russian units with improved tactics, and Ukraine's own struggles with exhaustion and sinking morale.
The ruble is down, the price of potatoes is up. But is Russia's economy really in trouble?
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, many companies pulled out of Russia, while Western countries rolled out sanctions targeting Russian banks, companies and individuals in an effort to stunt the country's ability to fund its war machine.
Desperate to avoid the draft
Most men in Ukraine are banned from leaving the country under martial law that was declared after the Russian invasion nearly two years ago. But some men who don’t want to fight in the war have taken risky journeys over the border into Moldova and other countries to avoid being called up to serve.
