Ukraine's score in Global Peace Index in 2020 improved by 0.22 or 7.6%, to 2.66, which recorded the largest increase in peacefulness globally among 163 countries, according to the Global Peace Index ...

Global peacefulness has deteriorated for the ninth year in a row, with deaths from global conflict increasing by 96% to 238 000 and Ukraine recording the largest deterioration, falling 14 places to ...

How a country treats its women could be an important factor in understanding how it treats its neighbors, suggests a new study by a Brigham Young University-led research team. Their results are ...

Nearly 100 countries experienced less peace in 2023 compared with 2022. The Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars fueled the global decline in peacefulness. The United States ranks 132 among 163 total ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Given the economic slowdowns, threats of Russian revanchism, and entrenching autocracies across the region, there would seem little grounds for optimism girding Central Asia’s broader near-term ...

Solitude and creativity have been in my arsenal for some time now. They’re the best way to confront the inhumanity and sorrow one witnesses in law enforcement. Suicides. Murder. Accident victims.

Former Guidance Bureau spokesperson Mahmoud Ghozlan is believed to reside outside Egypt Young members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood organisation have criticised a call for "peacefulness" from an ...