North Korean defectors face extreme culture shock and social stigma in South Korea. Two former citizens share stories of how ...

Abandoned villages and empty landscapes are not a problem specific to Eastern Europe. In an NZZ interview, demographics ...

Wildfires have scorched over 14,000 hectares in Syria’s Latakia region. A jihadist group has claimed responsibility. The ...

In an interview, prominent political scientist Francis Fukuyama explains how authoritarianism, inequality and technology are ...

The April 2015 earthquake severely damaged the unique cultural treasures of the Kathmandu Valley. Reconstruction of the ...

The death of Vadim Medvedev marks the quiet end of an era when Communist apparatchiks ruled the Soviet Union from behind ...

Bosniaks and Serbs are living side by side again in Srebrenica. They play football together, and their children go to the ...

The Russian republic of Chechnya in the North Caucasus lives according to its own rules. An undisclosed illness appears to be ...

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the ...

Munich-based defense tech firm Helsing is just over 4 years old, but is already one of the highest-valued startups in Europe.

Russian forces only deployed a few Shahed kamikaze drones at a time, but now there are up to 700 per night. In addition to ...

For centuries, Denmark has presented itself as a good colonial power in Greenland. But, over time, the dark history of a ...