international news

A laptop ban on all international flights, Sri Lanka floods kill dozens, Texas moves towards restricting student voting, and more.

Just after midnight on Sunday, Indonesia executed six drug offenders by firing squad. International observers see the executions as harsh, especially since five of the six prisoners were foreign nationals.

When police forces intercepted students from the Teachers College of Ayotzinapa in Mexico en route to a protest in Iguala, six students were fatally shot and 43 were abducted.

And more bad news from around the world.

A wave of violent protests and clashes between young people and police that left one demonstrator dead from a head wound.

Meeting the students leading the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.

The group is allegedly linked to neo-Nazism.

Meeting Turkey's antigentrification militants – the Revolutionary People's Liberation Front.

VICE founder Suroosh Alvi went to Mexico to meet the drug cartels that are stealing the country's oil.

Russia's rule over Crimea could have deadly consequences for the Tatars.

We visited Debaltseve, a town at a strategic crossroads between two rebel-held cities in Eastern Ukraine.

Surveying the damage in Gaza City and seeing how local residents are coping.