A police cadet injured during the attack on the Police Training Center lies in bed in a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan.

Conflict

Attackers kill dozens of sleeping cadets at Pakistani police academy in Quetta

A Somali soldier patrols a street following a suicide car bomb and gun attack.

Books

The death of a Navy SEAL reveals US mission creep in Somalia

This address is listed on an official police website back in China as an “Overseas Police Service Center,” but the locale appears abandoned. 

Global Politics

China has a police network that stretches across some 30 countries, NGO says

Sports

Brazil’s yellow-and-green soccer jersey stirs up controversy

Lionel Messi’s last shot at World Cup glory

After the discovery of commercial quantities of oil in 2006, Hoima, Uganda, is being referred to as “Oil City,” Hoima, Uganda, November 2022.

Energy

Why African countries like Uganda are investing in fossil fuels

Surf's up!: Riding the world's largest waves in Portugal's Nazaré 

Sacred Nation

Japan’s infamous ‘happy’ cult sets sights on the United States

Demonstrators show "stop oil in Africa" written on their hands during a protest with Stop Pipelines coalition against pipelines in East Africa.

Land issues at the heart of Uganda’s oil showdown

Conflict & Justice

Colombia’s govt launches peace talks with the nation’s largest-remaining rebel group

To reduce its emissions, Colombian ranch experiments with a new variety of grass 

US President Joe Biden and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, right, chat as they gather for a group photo at Castle Elmau in Kruen, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on Sunday, June 26, 2022. 

Critical State

Insult to injury: Part I

Christianne Boudreau and her son Damian Clairmont who died fighting for an extremist group in Syria. 

Justice

Christianne Boudreau lost her son when he went to fight with ISIS.  Now she's doing something about it. 

A Kenya Defense Force soldier runs for cover during al-Shabab's attack on a university compound in Garissa on April 2, 2015.

Al-Shabab are masters of terror — and masters of the media

Zara John, 16, holds her baby, with her mother watching in the background.

A teen rescued from Boko Haram captivity still pines for her militant husband 

Culture

Why both ISIS and some US right-wingers are threatening to kill this American imam

extremists

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