On Sunday, the people of Okinawa voted against relocating US troops in Futenma, in the south of the archipelago, to Henoko, in the north. The referendum was a victory for Okinawa’s new governor, Denny Tamaki: 72.2% of respondents said they didn’t want the new US military base to be installed in Henoko, an area rich in coral and marine life. On Monday, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said (...) →

The UK’s political class has fragmented over issues that are too fundamental to be contained by the party system, and the ideological glue that held British civil society together for two (...) →

Yesterday, judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) advised that the continuing British occupation of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean is illegal. Testifying last September, former (...) →

Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who resigned on Monday. Hamed Malekpour Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shocked Iranians when he announced his resignation in an (...) →