The burnt-down Moria camp, boats full of migrants picked up in the Mediterranean or people crossing the river Evros between Greece and Turkey: These are the familiar images that dominate reporting on migration. But 4,000 kilometres from camps on the Greek island Lesbos, a new humanitarian catastrophe is brewing. Since the start of 2020, almost […]

Meghan, the duchess of Sussex, revealed on Wednesday she had a miscarriage earlier this year. In an essay for the New York Times, Meghan said she realized she was losing her unborn child while getting her firstborn son, Archie, ready one morning in July. She wrote in the piece: “After changing his diaper, I felt […]

President-elect Joe Biden is slated to deliver a Thanksgiving address to the nation seeking to unify Americans in the face of the coronavirus pandemic as experts warn of a possible spike in cases resulting from the holiday. Biden’s transition team said the president-elect will “discuss the shared sacrifices Americans are making this holiday season and […]

Cameroon’s army said Wednesday that three soldiers accused in the massacre of civilians in a troubled anglophone region, a case that triggered an international outcry, would go on trial on December 17. The killing took place on February 14 in the village of Ntumbaw, in the Northwest Region, where anglophone separatists and security forces are […]

France will require online technology giants to pay a new “digital tax” on their 2020 earnings, the finance ministry said Wednesday, despite Washington’s warning that it could retaliate with new tariffs on French imports. “The companies subject to this tax have been notified,” a ministry official said, referring in particular to the US firms Google, […]