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Publication Date: January 2, 2026 - 06:30
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2025: The Year in Reporting from around the World
January 2, 2026
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In an increasingly connected world, it’s becoming harder and harder to ignore what’s happening outside our borders. On-the-ground reporting from Guantánamo Bay, Belgrade, and Damascus gave readers a compelling, front-row view of stories making headlines around the world, while expert commentary took a broader, contextual approach to some of the most urgent issues that will continue to shape the news cycle in the years to come:
I’ve Visited Guantánamo 28 Times as a Reporter. It Still Defies Belief BY MICHELLE SHEPHARD The surreal gulag has a pub, a gift shop, and a McDonald’s. Now Trump is looking to fill it up again China Secretly Executed Four Canadians. A Former Prisoner Explains Why BY MICHAEL KOVRIG How Beijing uses the death penalty as diplomatic leverage A Ghost Fleet of Tankers Is Keeping Russia’s War Machine Afloat. The West Can’t Stop It BY WESLEY WARK How Putin outsmarted the oil sanctions How Casualty Counters Measure Deaths in Gaza BY NORA LORETO The data detectives recording the true cost of war Canada and India Are Getting Along Again. The Peace Won’t Last BY SUSHANT SINGH Carney is using economic logic to mend broken ties. But it can’t make up for deep political divisions The Joy of Protest BY FILIPA PAJEVIC In Serbia, a student uprising becomes a family affair What Would It Take to Rebuild Syria? BY SAMIA MADWAR After fourteen years away, I returned to a home I barely recognized The Taliban Are Turning Boys’ Schools into Jihadist Training Grounds BY SORAYA AMIRI, SAMIA MADWAR Afghans worry their children are doomed under new curriculum enforced at gunpoint The Children Russia Stole from Ukraine BY SARAH TRELEAVEN, JAMIE LEVIN Tens of thousands of children are being abducted, stripped of their identity, and taught to hate their homeland Greenland Has Been Fighting Off Americans for Over a Century BY LAAKKULUK WILLIAMSON There may be only about 57,000 Kalaallit in the world, but we know how to resist imperialism If You Think We Have Press Freedom, Try Sharing This Story on Instagram BY MOSTAFA AL-A’SAR Growing up in Egypt, I knew access to news could be fragile. I didn’t expect to lose it again in Canada A Canadian Company Says It’s Fighting Pollution in the Philippines. Is It Cashing In Instead? BY RÉMY BOURDILLON Paying plastic-waste pickers might just be a licence to pollute The post 2025: The Year in Reporting from around the World first appeared on The Walrus.
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