Julian Assange should have gone to Sweden seven years ago and faced the rape charges.

After weeks of peaceful demonstrations, Algeria's president has been forced to resign.

According to the UN's ILO, there are currently 277 million migrants in the world

Erdogan's audience would not necessarily have giggled when he warned the evil NZers.

Traditional white Aussies came unprepared for multi-culturalism. Some really don't like it

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The Independent National Election Commission postponed the election for a week.

Gwynne Dyer on the "Little Ice Age", when the tens of millions of native Americans died

Scientists seem untroubled by signs that the north and south magnetic poles will switch.

We need a significant overhaul, changing the world food system on a scale not seen before

Why didn't the United States have this discussion with the Taliban 17 years ago

Those lamenting the election of Tshitsekedi accept that it's probably the least bad option

This is a problem for Venezuelans to solve, not foreigners — and least of all Americans.

Bangladesh is now a one-party state where about half the population hates the ruling party

How has this nonsense dominated the politics of two countries for more than two decades?

It was Erdogan who persuaded Trump that pulling all US troops out of Syria was a good idea

British Prime Minister Theresa May doesn't convince as a suicide bomber.

Interstellar travel suddenly seems closer with work on a space drive that burns no fuel.

MbS is likely to stay in power -- perhaps to the ultimate ruin of the country he rules.

Would the Syrian Kurds rather be conquered by the Turks or by Assad?

Conquering Ukraine is probably the furthest thing from the Russians' minds.

India's and Pakistan's problem-solving abilities have thus far not inspired confidence.

Both Saudi Arabia and Israel would love to entangle the US in a war with Iran..

Populism is not an ideology. It's just a political technique, available to everyone.

So how should we commemorate the war?

Obama: "the character of our country is on the ballot,"

It's looking good for the existence of life elsewhere in the universe.

Africa needs more women like Ghana's President Leticia Appiah. Urgently.

Trump reacts to Russia's provocation by threatening to tear up the INF Treaty.

If the foreigners will not bring Mohammed bin Salman down, his own family probably will.

A hit team murders a dissident Saudi journalist ...

How bad will it get, and how long will it stay bad? Quite bad and for quite a while.

Corruption in Iraq is a system, not a series of individual crimes.

Culture war over liberalising of sexual relations and abortion at a critical point.

Major political implications depend on which group planned the latest Iran attack.

Will this spat between the world's two biggest economies cause a second great recession?

Five-sixths of the world's people now live in countries where homosexuality is not a crime

The Israelis are adamant Palestinians cannot return, regardless of international law.

China is detaining and "reprogramming" Muslims in Xinjiang on a very large scale.

At present trawlers can catch whatever they want on the unregulated "high seas".

We're going to find out which way Turkey and the US jump quite soon.

Jeremy Corbyn has turned a personal problem into a crisis for Britain's Labour Party.

The history of the Europe in the 20th century could so easily have been quite different.

Hopes ebbing away for Southeast Asia

For the moment Americans must go on paying the cost of their ideology.

Slowing down of the Gulf Stream could produce more bad news for western Europe .

Saudi women can drive now, but the country is now being run by an over-confident dictator.

Husband-and-wife teams running authoritarian regimes seem to have a high casualty rate.

Automation will eventually eliminate at least half the existing jobs.

92-year-old can give his country a second chance - if he removes privileges

A US-North Korea summit - this is what the deal might actually look like

The defection of Italy could threaten the EU's survival.

A thousand unarmed Palestinians are struck by Israeli bullets in a day

On the 200th anniversary of Karls Marx's birth, Gwynne Dyer revisits socialism.

Gwynne Dyer discusses the US exit from nuclear deal with Iran

Around a quarter of Americans who were raised as Muslims have left the faith.

Some may argue that this is saving capitalism, but evolution is better than revolution.

There can't be a new Cold War; the Russians don't have the resources to hold up their end.

Russian-speakers must accept that Latvia's endangered language and culture come first.

No system devised by human beings is invulnerable to manipulation by other human beings.

Pope Francis is clearly uncomfortable with the idea of God as the eternal torturer.

US propaganda sees one stray missile turn into invasion threat

Why do they need these fake democratic elections in order to validate their rule?

Robot vehicles will kill many driving jobs and reduce demand for oil and private cars.

No promise Trump could make would persuade the North Koreans to surrender their nukes.

How would post-Putin Russia revive its democracy in the face of opposition from oligarchs?

The US may be ordered to close down the Mexican border completely within 20 years.

The war must go on until all of Syria is back under Damascus's rule.

Xi is not likely to "do a Mao" in China. But the mistakes will accumulate nevertheless.

Immigration is the biggest issue, and Berlusconi talks bluntly about mass deportations.

It's like a very bad romantic novel, but real people are being killed in large numbers.

The ANC is still a legitimate, democratic party with the loyalty of most South Africans.

Finally, most jobs will go - including skilled manual jobs and high-level management jobs.

Universal health care is a no-brainer

The Russians and Chinese will respond, and the world will become a little more dangerous.

You can legitimately call it ethnic cleansing. Or genocide, if you want to get legalistic.