Author: JONATHAN WOLFE

Plus accounts of torture in Ukraine and Taiwan’s ambitious diplomacy.

Plus explosions in the Russian city of Belgorod and a fire at a notorious prison in Iran.

Plus growing dissent in Russia and China’s debt diplomacy

Plus the destruction from Hurricane Ian and Zambia’s honeymoon.

Plus U.N. inspects an embattled nuclear power plant and China locks down Chengdu.

Plus India’s Supreme Court widens its definition of family and floods devastate Pakistan.

Plus the controversy over seabed mining and the geopolitical drama surrounding Taiwan’s microchips

Plus an expansion of Russia’s armed forces and France’s proposal to ban private jets

Plus a Ukrainian nuclear plant is under threat.

Ukraine’s president addresses African leaders.