Alexey Navalny, who churned out muckraking exposes of corruption in the Kremlin and led protests that propelled him to YouTube stardom – and the nearly lethal position of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s political nemesis – has died in a remote penal colony, prison authorities say. He was 47 and died on Friday in IK-3, one of Russia’s northernmost prisons. The lawyer and securities expert, who used to live...

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny died on Friday in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year-term, the country’s prison authorities have said. Navalny lost consciousness after a walk and could not be revived by medics, the prison service said. The 47-year-old was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic, and spent much of his time in recent years either in prison or recovering from attacks...

‘Israel operates under a climate of absolute impunity,’ says Craig Mokhiber, former top UN official. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza the United Nations has been under pressure. More than 85 percent of the Gazan population is currently homeless and living in dire conditions, while the UN remains in political gridlock. Three weeks after the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza, the former director of the...