International

International is where guest contributions live. These reports were filed from outside the newsroom, several of them in their author’s own language, and they are published in the form they arrived in. They are not the work of this desk, their views are their authors’ own, and so are their outbound links.

They sit in one place rather than inside the news desks for exactly that reason: a reader should be able to tell at a glance which reports this newsroom stands behind and which it is hosting. Our editorial standards set out what we accept from outside, what we refuse, and how a paid placement is labelled. If you want to file to this desk, write for us explains how.

The desk holds 6 reports filed between March 12, 2025 and April 25, 2025. Newest sits first, and the date under a headline is the date it was published.

A report belongs to one desk, and the address it was published at does not change afterwards: renaming a section does not move a page, so a link saved years ago still opens the same report. Where a story touches two subjects it stays in the desk it was filed to, and the same page is also reachable from the writer it belongs to.

The order on this page is by date, not by how much traffic a report draws, and long pieces are listed on the same terms as short ones. If a fact in one of them is wrong, the newsroom address takes corrections: the fix is written onto the report itself, with a note saying what changed, rather than published somewhere else.