Lawmakers quietly slip language into budget bill that would drastically weaken public records law, giving police and ...

Researchers have unearthed the surveillance records of Taiwan’s former dictatorship. But the revelations inside could tear ...

The last-known Nazi concentration camp guard who “helped kill thousands” has died aged 100. Gregor Formanek, a former SS ...

The German government designated the top opposition party as 'extremist' in another move back toward the country's dark past.

During the GDR era, Gysi defended dissidents, although after 1989 he was repeatedly accused of cooperating with the East German secret police, the Stasi. If anyone in today’s Germany can understand ...

It was in judo class at the age of 12 that Putin met one of his lifelong friends: Arkady Rotenberg. The pair remained close, and in the cloak-and-dagger world of Russian politics, it would be old ...

RUSSIA has unleashed a shadowy new spy unit tasked with sabotage, cyber attacks and assassinations across Europe, Western intelligence officials say. The Department of Special Tasks – or SSD ...

Imagine a surveillance state powerful enough to incarcerate people for the wrong dreams. In 2025, it doesn’t feel like such a ...