Infection rates are surging in many parts of the world, fuelled by the spread of the highly-infectious Omicron variant.
European powers continued to try and curb refugee and migrant arrivals this year, with sometimes deadly consequences.
With one journalist dead and dozens behind bars, Myanmar is now one of the world’s worst places to be a media worker.
Protesters say former soldiers and ex-employees of the last elected government are ‘under direct threat’.
Memorial, a decades-old organisation famed for documenting repression, found guilty of violating ‘foreign agent’ law.
France, UK, Italy, Greece, and Portugal all hit record daily infections, with France reporting almost 180,000 cases.
Anwar Ditta’s passing comes amid yet another major assault on civil liberties in the UK.
