Peace
EXCLUSIVE
Exclusive: Recognition, Somalia, and Normalisation
Somaliland's Foreign Minister sits down with DET in Hargeisa, touching on sovereignty, recognition, and normalisation whilst championing stability in the Horn.
EUROPE
PKK Defies Odds as Peacemaker After Forty Brutal Years
From prison island to battlefields, PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan's words halt a 40-year Kurdish-Turkish war that has claimed 40,000 lives since 1984.
PODCASTS
Ukraine: We Cannot End Up in a Quasi-Peace Deal
Ukraine seeks a just, lasting peace, ensuring Russia never returns. Strength and international law are key to deterring future aggression.
Ukraine War
A Line in the Sand? Saudi Hosts Putin-Trump Showdown
Trump and Putin plan Saudi talks on Ukraine war; Kyiv's role uncertain, raising concerns over the legitimacy of any peace deal.
Popular
Winter Storm Research Rewrites a Witch Trial Tragedy
As new research published in Smithsonian Magazine this week connects a 1617 Arctic storm to Norway's deadliest witch trials, climate historians reveal how weather shock fed decades of persecution.
Prediction Takes Politics: Prophets and Polymarkets Collide
As 11 Peruvian shamans predicted Nicolás Maduro's fall on 29 December 2025, crypto traders were placing similar bets online—five days before U.S. forces extracted the Venezuelan leader to New York.
Mladenov Takes Over Gaza Board After Regional Veto
Nickolay Mladenov becomes Gaza peace board head after Arab states blocked Tony Blair, raising questions about whose interests guide Washington's selection.
Abu Dhabi Rebuffs British Universities Over Campus Radicalisation
The world’s wealthiest patrons now view Western campuses as hazards, forcing a costly inversion of the traditional hierarchy that once defined global education.
Bury the Lead: MTV ‘Death’ and the Way We Read Now
As MTV continued broadcasting across the United States and most of Europe on 1 January 2026, millions of social media tributes mourned a channel that had never actually shut down.


