Archive

Browse our published reporting by date and region.

Politics

Winter fuel cuts turned the Welsh against Labour, former leader Neil Kinnock says

The former Labour leader says welfare policies turned disillusionment with Labour into "active dislike".

BBC NewsOct 30, 2026

International

Behind the "empty chairs" of the Fifth Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee: How will the normalized high-pressure anti-corruption campaign change officialdom?

"This plenum further demonstrates that Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign has no end," experts said. "Continued disciplinary pressure should not be just a phased campaign, but must become a permanent part of the CCP's operating methods."

BBC NewsOct 30, 2026

International

Refugee athlete to make history for second time at Youth Olympics

Yiech Pur Biel leads the first ever refugee team to take part at the Youth Olympics.

BBC NewsOct 30, 2026

Finance

Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance

The world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange reported Thursday that approximately $6.3 billion was impacted in an apparent hack.

NPROct 30, 2026

International

Gulf states must rethink trillion-dollar defence in light of US-Iran war, says report

IISS study questions overreliance on American support and ‘overdependence on expensive, high-end systems’ Gulf states are going to have to reconfigure their trillion-dollar defences given the damage inflicted on their economies and the questionable continued value of US bases in the face of Iranian attack, according to a study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The report says that in the weeks before the 8 April ceasefire, 12 regional states, overwhelmingly in the Gulf, faced 4,670 Iranian one-way attack drones and more than 1,400 ballistic missiles. Nearly half were aimed

The GuardianOct 30, 2026