Features

Holes in the socks of our enemies

In the midst of Russia’s war on Ukraine, a reporter follows Ukrainian volunteers on a dangerous mission to retrieve the bodies of fallen soldiers – and their enemies

The families that own all the fish

A mind-boggling investigation into the fishery-financial complex at the heart of Iceland’s leading industry

SADR: The country lost in the middle of the desert

A Colombian journalist travels to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to meet the embattled people struggling against a 50-year displacement from their homeland

Searching for the promised land

Following the Chinese transgender women journeying to Thailand in pursuit of life-changing surgeries

Over our dead bodies

How a mine has become a rallying cry for a rural Serbian community – and wider national protests

Castle in the clouds

Finland’s strict drug laws have put a cannabis farmer behind bars – but he feels he’s done nothing wrong

Gaming behind the iron curtain

From the Rubik's Cube to Ecco the Dolphin: meet the programmers from Hungary and former Comecon countries who helped shape a generation of video games

The last glass eels

A slippery tale of human greed, climate change and the mysteries of the deep

A shaman’s survival in modern China

In a China racing toward the future one reluctant young shaman fights to honour the ancient spirits that refuse to let him go

When hate reaches the school gates

Guro Middle School is on the frontline of a war on immigrants waged by Korea's far-right

Refugees welcome

A journalist catches up with the “nicest people” in the far-right, anti-immigrant German AfD party – people with an immigrant background themselves. Original by Oliver Wehrs ‘Refugees welcome’, published in

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