💥#NEW: Drones. Thermal cameras. Surveillance towers that can see 20 km away. A months-long investigation by @g_christides Katy Fallon Florian Schmitz Marguerite Meyer · Hibai Arbide Aza · reveals how the EU uses AI technology toward the people seeking refuge in it. wearesolomon.com/mag/focus-area…

My latest investigation based on internal case files, documents, and interviews: Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/…

Microsoft can no longer deny it’s directly enabling the oppression and genocide of Palestinians by Israel. “The cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank” theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…

‼️ Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH confirms there is no exit from El Fasher 🇸🇩 that RSF does not control. Civilians trying to leave must reportedly pay bribes, are robbed, and may be assaulted or killed. The last 'famine foods’ - animal feed - appear to be running out. medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnood/…

This is the inside, shocking story of a massacre of Sudanese civilians - the most vulnerable population in the world at the time - and why the world let it happen. theguardian.com/global-develop…

Bellingcat, in collaboration with 日本経済新聞 電子版（日経電子版）, uncovered a Chinese fentanyl smuggling network’s operations in Japan. Read our full investigation here: bellingcat.com/news/2025/08/0…

NEW: We spoke to 3 Venezuelans about the hell they experienced at CECOT in El Salvador. Neri Alvarado, who has an autism awareness ribbon tattooed on his leg, said that even the ICE agent who questioned him told him he was not part of a gang. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…

Great reporting here from Paulina Villegas & Maria Abi-Habib tracing fentanyl's route into the US, including the bribery of US border agents nytimes.com/2025/08/09/wor…

"They've revealed themselves to be traitors who are being used by Trump to attack Brazilian sovereignty, jobs + the Brazilian economy,” Guilherme Boulos said “If the objective was to save Bolsonaro, they’ve completely shot themselves in the foot” theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…

Incredibly strange phenomenon in the Netherlands: Epidemic of bomb attacks orchestrated by young men hired over Telegram to settle petty interpersonal conflicts nytimes.com/2025/08/09/wor…

EXCLUSIVE: Investigation proves Palestinians indiscriminately shot by Israeli military near food sites across 50 days, from yours truly for The Guardian #GHF #IDF #Gaza #AidTrapInGaza /THREAD ⬇️ theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

“Putin would like to divide the world into spheres of influence with Trump and Xi. A new Yalta and a cold war — that’s what he wants. He is eager to claim Stalin’s laurels,” said Andrei Kolesnikov An attempt at reading tea leaves with Fabrice Deprez ft.com/content/e1e4a1…

Chinese illicit mining syndicates are ransacking gold deposits across the world, from Ghana to Indonesia. An unchecked "mining mafia" leaving behind a trail of environmental devastation. New investigation from The Washington Post: wapo.st/45gGVl2

🔴 Reported airstrike on a monastery and school ☑️ Kyaukpyu, Rakhine 8 August 2025 On 8 August, a monastery and a high school were reportedly hit in an airstrike. The incident, which was recorded between 23:13 and 23:16, has been attributed to the Myanmar Air Force. A high

Months after a cognitively impaired New Jersey man died while trying to meet up with a flirty Meta AI chatbot, ‘Big sis Billie’ was still romancing users, tests by Reuters show reut.rs/45DQIRj Jeff Horwitz

NEW: Putin has demanded Ukraine withdraw from the Donbas as a condition for ending Russia’s war, but told Trump he could freeze the rest of the frontline if his core demands were met. The latest from Alaska, with Christopher Miller Amy Mackinnon Anne-Sylvaine Chassany ft.com/content/6b0b49…

On #WorldOrangutanDay in The New York Times – How America's RV industry is destroying Indonesia's rainforests. Our new investigation reveals wood used in America’s favourite RVs can be traced to the devastation of Borneo’s rainforests. Read more 🔗 nytimes.com/2025/08/19/wor…

Inside the Nuba Mountains and the alliance reshaping Sudan’s civil war aje.io/iw5x73 via Al Jazeera English

“For us in Ukraine it is something so obvious that we’re surprised to see political leaders in Washington who don’t seem to see the threat.” Fabrice Deprez speaks to Ukrainians about the talk of “land swaps” and what it really means. on.ft.com/45YZ5Ik

The Secret World of Sanctioned Oil Trading: $1bn of unusual naval mortgages in Panama led me to a Swiss lawyer, an Iranian middleman, dozens Chinese-controlled offshore companies and a network of tankers moving $billions of oil from Iran Russia & Venezuela on.ft.com/47Fc0jV