As the isolation period comes to an end for those caught up in the outbreak on a cruise ship, let's celebrate a good news story Passengers evacuated from the MV Hondius land in Tenerife, 10 May 2026. Photograph : Chris McGrath/Getty Images passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship where the hantavirus outbreak first occurred finished their isolation periods this past Sunday. This is a public health success story worth celebrating, because so many worse results were possible. We heard (…)

In June 2026, Kyiv municipal services removed the monument to novelist Mikhail Bulgakov from Andriivsky Uzviz, the steep cobbled street in the old city where he grew up. This follows a 2024 designation of the author of The Master and Margarita as symbol of Russian imperial policy. Bulgakov's contempt for Ukrainian language and statehood runs through his published work from the 1923 essay Kiev-Town to the novel White Guard. But the policy that removed his statue also retained, on the school (…)

Dear Friends and Comrades, We write to you with deep concern and urgency to seek your solidarity and financial support in a grave matter of injustice involving poor peasants in the occupied island (Char) area of Bhola district For many years, landless peasants and fisherfolk in the char areas of Bhola have been struggling to defend their land, homes, and livelihoods against powerful land grabbers backed by money, muscle, and political influence. These newly emerged char lands have long (…)