Reportage

Nikola Mikovic discusses how energy will define relations between Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko

Steve Shaw reports on the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, which could be part of Israel and Donald Trump’s last-ditch effort to bury Barack Obama’s nuclear deal

CJ Werleman charts the success of the state of Victoria in getting a grip on the Coronavirus – despite the efforts of the right-wing media to discredit its popular left-wing Premier Dan Andrews

After damning revelations of war crimes committed by Australia’s special forces were revealed to the public it is time the British Government faced up to its own bloody history in the Middle East writes Steve Shaw

A Chinese Communist Party official, widely believed to be the mastermind of Beijing’s most draconian policies in Xinjiang and Tibet, needs international pressure applied to him over his systematic repression, say campaigners

Today, activists for democracy in the former British colony find themselves with no protests, no opposition law-makers and, soon, without their influential leaders

Nikola Mikovic examines whether Russia's decision not to support Armenia could have been linked to lucrative energy deals with Azerbaijan

Carole Concha Bell reports on another atrocity as Chile’s billionaire President Sebastian Piñera allows police violence to return to the horrific levels of the Augusto Pinochet regime

Monica Piccinini charts the rise of Chinese investment in Brazil and how important it is becoming for the economy and the Brazilian Government

Steve Shaw reports on the civil war that exploded in one of Africa’s most stable countries in the shadow of the US election, and now threatens to spill across borders

CJ Werleman reports on how the Australian right-wing press appears to be minimising the shocking murder of 39 Afghans

Martin Jay writes that Boris Johnson could be about to make a terrible mistake by committing troops to fight in Mali for French national interests

Days before Saudi Arabia hosts the G20 Summit, British MPs have been told the kingdom is experiencing one of the worst periods of repression in recent times, reports Steve Shaw

Zarina Zabrisky urges the President-elect and his team to counter one of the gravest threats to modern democracy

Peter Jukes looks at the rise and fall of the dark money and online culture war strategies that put Donald Trump in the White House and pushed Britain out of the EU