Insight

By Natasha Frost AUCKLAND — When Ahamed Aadil Mohamed Samsudeen grabbed a knife at a Countdown supermarket Friday (3) in West Auckland and began stabbing shoppers, the police were just outside. They had followed him there. They had, in…
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By Nina Lakhani, Michael Safi, Dan Sabbagh, Shaun Walker, Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Hannah Ellis-Petersen LONDON - Revelations about the use of spying tools sold to governments by NSO Group sparked furious political rows across the world…
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By Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Paul Lewis, David Pegg and Sam Cutler LONDON - Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by authoritarian governments using hacking software sold by the Israeli…
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By Chris Buckley, Vivian Wang and Austin Ramzy Hong Kong’s march toward an authoritarian future began with a single phrase in a dry policy paper. Beijing, the document declared, would wield “comprehensive jurisdiction” over the territory.…
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By Mark Mazzetti, Julian E. Barnes and Michael Laforgia WASHINGTON — Four Saudis who participated in the 2018 killing of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi received paramilitary training in the United States the previous year…
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By Ronen Bergman It was a little past midnight Friday (21), and Israel’s Supreme Command Post was racing to complete as many strikes as possible in the final hours before a cease-fire with the Palestinian militant group Hamas was to take…
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By Alex Hern Facebook’s bullying and harassment policy explicitly allows for ‘public figures’ to be targeted in ways otherwise banned on the site, including ‘calls for death’, according to a tranche of internal moderator guidelines…
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By David E. Sanger and Emily Schmall WASHINGTON — Early last summer, Chinese and Indian troops clashed in a surprise border battle in the remote Galwan Valley, bashing each other to death with rocks and clubs. Four months later and more…
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By Pete Pattisson, Niamh McIntyre, Imran Mukhtar in Islamabad, Nikhil Eapen in Bangalore, Imran Mukhtar in Islamabad, Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan in Dhaka, Udwab Bhattarai in Kathmandu and Aanya Piyari in Colombo More than 6,500 migrant workers…
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By P. K. Balachandran COLOMBO – December 16, 2020 marks the 49th anniversary of the end of the war in East Pakistan which led to the emergence of an independent Bangladesh. Joint operations by the Bangladeshi guerrilla force, the Mukti…
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