The EU put a brave face Sunday on Iceland’s vote against restarting membership talks, but the outcome was a bitter pill to swallow – robbing Brussels of a hoped-for success story while delighting its eurosceptic critics. 

Countries are “legally obliged” to provide broad reparations for harms resulting from both direct and indirect involvement in the transatlantic African slave trade, a United Nations committee has said. This comes amid a fresh interpretation of a global accord, published…

Colombian rebels have claimed responsibility for kidnapping a Colombian soldier serving in the French Foreign Legion, saying he is alive and in good health nearly a month after he was seized in the south-west of the country. However they warned…

Centre-left Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday alleged that social networks linked to Israel and Russia had spread disinformation about the July migrant crisis in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. He said the alleged smear campaign, which he maintained…

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Elise Blanchard, award-winning photojournalist and author of “Dans la Maison d’un Taliban” (In the House of a Taliban). Blanchard’s work challenges narratives that reduce Afghan women to passive victims. Drawing on rare access to…

US Vice President JD Vance will make a private address on Monday at the annual gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition, a collection of conservative Jewish activists. Vance’s more equivocal stance on Israel has been criticised by some pro-Israel figures…

Emmanuel Macron will visit Sweden on Monday to sign a €4.3 billion contract for Stockholm’s acquisition of four French frigates – a trip that will also provide the French president with an opportunity to discuss broader concerns about European security and…

Nepal on Monday began mass burials for the hundreds of people killed in catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border last week, as authorities announced the death toll had climbed past 900 people. Officials in Nepal and neighbouring China are…