WikiLeaks’ co-founder Julian Assange decisively returned to the world news agenda on April 11 with his bodily removal, kicking and screaming, from self-imposed incarceration in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.

Can fighting evil together be the way to go in parts of the world where populism and nationalism are winning?

It is on the outer fringes of US 2020 electoral politics that the Palestinian issue is pushing up through the weeds of domestic policy debate.

Why would anyone relocate to live and work in New Zealand after the terrorist attack that took place in Christchurch? Because of Prime Minister Jacinda Arden and the country’s response to the horrific attack.

After his decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, has Donald Trump’s disregard for international laws the potential to set off more conflicts all over the world?

By creating insensitivity to the deaths of Muslims — by drone strikes, drowning in the seas, caged for requesting asylum — there is a measure of “desensitisation” achieved.

Have you been following Justin Trudeau’s decline and impending fall? Rashmee Roshan Lall explains.

India and Pakistan have been told to calm things down but nobody is getting too worked up about the situation.

After talks he held in Beijing with President Xi Jinping, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hailed relations with China as trouble-free.

It’s funny (in a profoundly sad way) how little the world is talking about the new constitutional amendments in Egypt.

How long before tensions within the European Union grow deeper and the rifts spread further? Rashmee Roshan Lall asks.

By delegitimising the Venezuelan President and hailing the opposition leader as rightful leader, Trump plunged the country into deeper crisis. The US and Latin American neighbours could have increased pressure on Maduro instead.

No US delegation, no French president, no British prime minister at Davos this year. Is it time for China to shine?

From the Democratic Republic of Congo to Bangladesh and Russia, the manipulation of election outcomes is a worrying worldwide trend.

Why a general decline of Britain’s global influence means that Brexit will be a problem for the UK but not for the rest of the world.

On a continent whose politics is poisoned by fear of non-white, Muslim immigration, the German cabinet relaxed the rules for jobseekers from beyond the European Union.