The change was requested by the Catalan pro-independence parties on whose support the acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, is relying to form a new government after July’s general election resulted in a hung parliament.

Nine months into Azerbaijan’s effective blockade of a road linking its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, a Russian truck has arrived in the enclave carrying humanitarian aid.

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The blockade of the Lachin corridor has now lasted eight months, trapping Nagorno-Karabakh with dwindling supplies of food and medicine. With the world concerned with conflicts in other places, Armenia appears irrelevant in the larger geopolitical calculations. Yet it remains oddly significant.

UK asks bloc to clarify position after Buenos Aires declares ‘triumph’ over use of term in declaration.

North Korea is reported to have detained a serving US army soldier who crossed the heavily-fortified border from South Korea without permission. The man was on an organised tour of the UN-run zone dividing the two countries.

Israel has recognised Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara, the Moroccan government and a statement from the Israeli prime minister’s office say. Rabat said on Monday that Israel is considering opening a consulate in Dakhla.

What happens to a people when their land disappears? Facing extinction, Tuvalu tries to create digital ‘twin’ to survive.

Dozens of protesters and NATO peacekeepers were injured on Monday in northern Kosovo as local Serbs protested against the installment of a Kosovo Albanian mayor.

But separatist parties hope upcoming elections will revitalize the independence movement.

Concerns over China’s expanding activities in the Polar regions seem to have grown with the recent reports of the construction of its new Antarctic station near the Ross Sea. The resumption of construction activities of China’s fifth research station—after a few years of delay—has generated quick responses from Western critics and think tanks.

Daughters of the Sun, a documentary by Reber Dosky, premiers this week at the Movies that Matter Festival in The Hague. A tender and inspiring film about a group of Yezidi women and girls who were abducted as sex slaves by Islamic State and now have to rebuild their lives. With each other’s love and support, they find the strength to look forward again.

It’s still not clear how many people were killed at Barrio Chino on 24 June 2022. As many as 77 people, most of them young men who had fled their homes in Sudan and South Sudan, are still missing. A reconstruction by Ben Ehrenreich.

Fighting resumed on Tuesday in the disputed town of Las Anod in the self-declared republic of Somaliland. It was sparked when Dhulbahante clan elders reportedly issued a declaration stating that they no longer considered themselves part of Somaliland.

The forced displacement of the entire Chagossian people by the United Kingdom and United States governments and the UK’s racial persecution, and continued blocking of their return home, are crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report and video released today.

Bougainville is likely to play a surprisingly significant role in the tussles between China and the US in the Pacific region. Lucas Knotter analyses the future of this breakaway island.

The UK has agreed to open negotiations with Mauritius over the future handover of the Chagos Islands, in a major reversal of policy following years of resistance and legal defeats in international courts. The intended agreement will allow for the return of former inhabitants of the Chagos archipelago who were forcibly displaced by the British government in the 1960s and 1970s.

A day marking a historical defeat may seem like an odd point to declare the resurgence of Catalonia’s independence movement. Not for activist Imma Caboti.

In 2027, the world will see the first newly independent country since South Sudan in 2011. Bougainville, an autonomous province in Papua New Guinea (PNG), voted almost unanimously for independence in a 2019 referendum.