Nearly a month has passed since the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia's foremost opposition politicians of the last 15 years. There are several theories circulating as to who is responsible for the February killing, which took place on Moscow's Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. These theories range from specious claims of Western government involvement designed to provoke and destabilize the Putin regime, to more widespread conjecture that Putin himself or forces aligned with him were involved.

Today marks the fifty-third anniversary of the end of the Algerian fight for independence. On March 19, 1962 the seven-year, four-month war ended after an official ceasefire was declared a day earlier in Évian, France, between the French government and Algeria’s National Liberation Front (FLN).

This International Women’s Day marked the beginning of a large-scale campaign to eradicate gender inequality and end violence against women in India. India’s Daughter, a documentary from Leslee Udwin focusing primarily on the December 2012 gang-rape of Jyoti Singh, was intended to air on BBC that day to launch the campaign.