August in Iran is the month of death sentences, echoing the 1988 massacre; amidst declarations of war and internal divisions between hardliners and pragmatists, the Iranian regime has for months continued to execute demonstrators with impunity

Founded in 1847 by freed slaves in North America, the US president considered Liberia as one of the destinations to which the ‘re-emigrants’ could be sent. And the Liberian government agreed to sign an agreement to take in 1,200 of them

Meanwhile, the University of Ghent has sacked Nathan Cofnas, the researcher who exposed Jason Arday’s fabrications

First the missionary kidnapped in Niger, Kevin Rideout; now two mercenaries from the Africa Corps. Saddam’s strange mediation with the Tuaregs and terrorists, sponsored by Abu Dhabi, in a bid to become the hero of Trump and Putin

France is banking on cultural diplomacy as a tool of soft power, but for the Iranian regime this constitutes ‘blatant interference’ in its internal affairs. 

In Hong Kong, Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan have been convicted for defending the anti-one-party slogan