Chronicle by Isaac Hammouch For more than a decade, European migration policy has oscillated between two contradictory imperatives: preserving a humanistic tradition rooted in the right to asylum while responding to political pressure caused by increasing migration flows. The adoption in 2024 of the European Pact on Migration and Asylum, which is expected to […]

“All over the world we hear a lot about peace, but we see too little,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at a ceremony in Türkiye while accepting the Atatürk International Peace Prize. “International law continues to be flouted, power politics gains ground [and] inequalities are […]

On a cold February night in 2026, the long-running shadow war between Israel and Iran ended in a flash of missiles and explosions across Tehran. Within hours, the strikes carried out by the United States and Israel had killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and pushed the Middle East into its most dangerous confrontation in decades. What had once been a clandestine struggle of cyberattacks, assassinations, and covert sabotage suddenly became open war.

As the conflict between the US-Israel and Iran has widened around the region, with Iran attacking neighbors across the Gulf, Tehran has launched significantly less missile and drone strikes at Saudia Arabia, with the Kingdom falling into a “third tier” behind other Gulf states in terms of how much fire has been received. The United Arab Emirates has been attacked by far the most. Iran’s […]

As conflict in the Middle East continues to spread across the region, the UN Security Council met today to discuss the escalating situation, with a morning briefing focused on Lebanon and a second session later on the broader crisis – adopting a resolution directed […]

At the entrance to the United Nations drug policy summit in Vienna, delegates were forced to smoke cannabis that they had no desire to inhale. Delegates, diplomats, journalists and civil society representatives arriving at the United Nations in Vienna on March 12, 2026 for the 69th session of […]

Delegates, diplomats, journalists and civil-society representatives arriving at the United Nations in Vienna on 12 March 2026 for the 69th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs were met with a bitter irony outside the venue: the smell of openly smoked cannabis near the main pedestrian approach to the Vienna International Centre. For many attendees, […]

The tension in the Middle East and especially in Israel has caused serious concern among tens of thousands of pilgrims and visitors who are in the Holy Land. The Romanian Patriarchate, which has a highly developed pilgrimage activity, has taken an active role in supporting Romanian pilgrims caught up in the hostilities in Israel. In […]

From Danish classrooms and teacher outreach to Geneva forums and projects reaching South Asia and New York, Scientology-supported initiatives continue to frame human-rights literacy as a practical civic tool KINGNEWSWIRE / PRESS RELEASE // BRUSSELS, Belgium — March 12, 2026 — Human-rights education remains one of the clearest areas of public activity linked to Scientologists across […]