The East European movements at Lab-Left emerged against the odds. On the one hand, the shadow of the Soviet bloc still looms ...

Following the Glasgow Climate Pact, the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels still has a pulse, argue Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin – but only just.

A small NGO is trying to link local communities and international networks to help Rio’s worse-off neighbourhoods, Ann Deslandes reports.

The situation in Bangladesh remains tense in the run up to Independence Day on 26 March, writes Rahnuma Ahmed.

From buses to mosques, Muammar Gaddafi’s presence is hard to escape in Sierra Leone.

As Colombia prepares to hold a referendum on the historic peace deal, Kimberley Brown takes us inside the rebels’ preparations.

Nick Dowson explores options for monitoring people in the interest of public health while respecting their privacy.

Richard Murphy takes down the financial shenanigans and mythmaking that rich governments have used to hide their powers to spend for good.

Young delegates inside the Paris climate summit were frustrated that the media were ignoring key issues. So yesterday, they took matters into their own hands, Morgan Curtis reports.

Pakistan's army offensive has wrongfooted the Taliban. But the larger war of ideas has yet to be won. *Pervez Hoodbhoy* explains.

Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandsons supporting the reformers? Demonstrations in the holy city of Qom? This is a new generation of resistance, as Nasrin Alavi shows in her latest survey of the Iranian ...

Louisa Reynolds on a country of great inequality still struggling with a legacy of civil war.