Interviews and first-hand accounts from sailors stranded in the Persian Gulf — under threat of drone attacks, missiles, and exploding boats — reveal an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis unfolding.
Countries heavily reliant on imported oil are particularly vulnerable to the unfolding energy crisis caused by the US-Israel war with Iran. It's no more apparent than in South-East Asian countries like the Philippines.
A former police hostage negotiator says he was sure Dezi Freeman's seven-month run from the law "was going to end in tears" and that the fugitive would never surrender.
The Pacific Island of Guam sits at the centre of a struggle between the world's most powerful military and the right of its people to determine their own future.