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Iran Says IAEA Won’t See Images From Reinstalled Cameras At Nuclear Site Until Sanctions Are Lifted (RFE RL)

One day after Iran agreed to reinstall surveillance cameras at one of its nuclear facilities, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran...

Kyrgyzstan Files Lawsuit Against Canada’s Centerra Gold Amid Ongoing Standoff (RFE RL)

Kyrgyzstan has filed a lawsuit against Canada's Centerra Gold company, accusing it of violating the rights of employees at the Kumtor gold mine, which...

UK: Johnson’s Conservatives suffer stunning defeat in by-election (Al Jazeera)

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has suffered a stunning defeat in a parliamentary by-election that is being viewed as a referendum on...

Meta bans ‘cyber-mercenaries’ that targeted 50,000 people (Al Jazeera)

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has banned several “cyber-mercenary” groups thought to have been offering surveillance services aimed at activists, dissidents and journalists worldwide. The social...

Saudi Arabia sends humanitarian aid to Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

Saudi Arabia has sent two aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, state media reported, its first such initiative since the Taliban took control of the crisis-stricken...

Broadband privacy belongs with the FTC, not the FCC (Cameron F. Kerry, Brookings)

When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a staff report in late October on the privacy and data collection practices of six large internet service providers...

Don’t give up on Myanmar (Nay Yan Oo, Brookings)

Myanmar is on the edge of a state collapse nearly 11 months after a military coup. Violence and insecurity have followed the coup, while...

Hardwiring the scaling-up habit in donor organizations (Johannes F. Linn, Brookings)

If the international community is to meet global development and climate challenges, in particular the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement climate...

What might we expect from Native American voters in the upcoming 2022 election? (Gabriel R. Sanchez, Brookings)

The past two election cycles have demonstrated the power of the Native American vote in federal elections. Native American voters were recognized as a...

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