Human rights
Azerbaijan craters its own climate conference
The EU warns that Ilham Aliyev’s combative rhetoric is undermining negotiations.
Germany football captain regrets team’s ‘very political’ stance at Qatar World Cup
Giorgia Meloni’s vendetta against Italy’s judges
Trump picks Israel ally Elise Stefanik for UN ambassador
Biden admin to support controversial UN cybercrime convention
Britain hugs oil giant BP while preaching climate action
German discounters crush fresh produce prices — and suppliers too
Stop funding Turkish deportation centers, NGOs tell EU
Call comes after POLITICO and others revealed widespread human rights abuses in EU-funded Turkish facilities.
Armenian ambassador alleged Azerbaijani counterpart threatened to kill him in Brussels bust up
The two countries are bitter rivals after more than three decades of war and occupation.
How Brexit helped Britain lose the Chagos Islands
After more than half a century, the U.K. is passing sovereignty of the disputed territory back to Mauritius. Why now?
Donald Trump’s heading for a showdown with the UK on China
The Labour government insists it’s not going soft on Beijing — but hawks are concerned.
EU foreign policy chief warns French energy giant on human rights violations
Josep Borrell said legislation going into effect in 2027 would require compensation to victims of abuses, after POLITICO revealed links between TotalEnergies and a massacre in Mozambique.
Horrific rape case pushes France to change the crime’s definition
The French justice minister is meeting with lawmakers to legally define nonconsensual sex as rape.
Uncertainty grips Georgia as opposition street protests end in anticlimax — for now
The opposition wants Western nations to help overturn the results of the vote.
Far-right ‘Venezuela majority’ signals new power balance in European Parliament
Left-wingers rail against rightward shift ahead of showdown with commissioners.
Georgia vote marred by intimidation and interference, observers warn
Opposition leaders have decried the voting as rigged.
Georgia’s ruling party on course for victory amid charges of vote-rigging
The consequential election comes as the governing Georgian Dream party presides over a widening split with the West.
EU’s Borrell decries ‘human tragedy’ in Gaza as Israeli offensive rages
A “catastrophic level of killing, destruction and starvation” afflicts the enclave as Israel’s attacks continue, EU foreign affairs chief says.
King Charles and Keir Starmer, Britain’s newest diplomatic double act
Two men, worlds apart, are flying the flag in Samoa. But there’s more to connect the monarch and new UK PM than meets the eye.
Climate of intimidation haunts Georgian elections
Opposition activists and journalists warn of efforts to silence them as police raid Western businesses and the homes of think-tank employees.
Venezuela’s opposition wins top EU human rights award
Sakharov Prize goes to politicians who took on authoritarian ruler Nicolás Maduro.
US ‘concerned’ for citizens after Meloni’s surrogacy ban in Italy
Washington fears that parents of children born through the procedure will not be recognized.
Top CNN reporter: I was captured by gun-toting militia in Darfur
Millions have been displaced amid Sudan’s brutal civil war.
Azerbaijan, EU human rights feud escalates as COP29 looms
The host of next month’s U.N. climate talks is warning Western politicians and NGOs not to criticize its internal affairs.
Europe gave 1M Syrians fleeing war protection. Some countries want to deport them.
Italy and Austria are pushing to recast Syria as a “safe” country, even as the bloc welcomes thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing war each year.
Playing with ‘electoral rocket fuel’: How Poland’s Donald Tusk hopes to weaponize migration
Toughening rules for asylum seekers is an effort to defang far-right parties ahead of next year’s presidential election.
UK presses China on weapons to Russia
On trip to Beijing, Britain’s foreign secretary says practice “risks damaging China’s relationships with Europe.” But the two sides agree to disagree on human rights.
UK’s David Lammy is in China — just don’t call it a reset
The new Labour government’s attitude toward Beijing seems in contrast to that of its Conservative predecessors.