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Americans can rest easy – for the moment, at least. The fine folks at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have thwarted a major national security...
Over the weekend, thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of India’s chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, faced mass detentions and...
On October 8, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim received Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing in Putrajaya with a guard of honour and an...
Nature is humanity’s life-support system, but it is being depleted at an alarming rate, leaving our world increasingly vulnerable. From deadly...
More than three years into the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Sudan is desperately in need of a...
The attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis on Saudi Arabia have pushed the war in Yemen to a new level. The targeting of civilian infrastructure,...
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has made Muslim solidarity central to how it presents itself. Nine years ago, Myanmar’s military...
Yemen is witnessing a major military escalation that has once again brought the western coast and the area around the Bab al-Mandeb strait to the...
As winter approaches, Russia has lifted its ban on exports of diesel and is preparing to sell hundreds of thousands of tonnes to the United States and...
The sanctions the United States has imposed on the International Criminal Court threaten to degrade its capacity to function, leaving it to die a slow...
It is said that if you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, nobody notices. That is how some people deceive themselves into believing that small...
When the “ceasefire” was announced on October 10 last year, we knew how much needed repairing. For the first time in a long while, we thought we...
As we begin the fourth year of a war that has brought the near-total destruction of Gaza, calls for Hamas to surrender administrative authority and...
For two years, Dhaka has deployed a soft diplomatic arsenal of prized Haribhanga mangoes, hilsa fish, jamdani fabrics, and Tangail sarees to keep its...
In the eyes of Israeli authorities, Palestinians in Gaza have it “too good”. Three years into Israel’s genocide, the survivors have been pushed...
The latest general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on October 4, repeated a pattern familiar from most electoral contests over the past...
Three years have passed since Hamas’s attack shook Israel and triggered the ongoing genocidal war. The image of the Israeli army as an invincible...
No notion has been so cynically exploited and distorted by both its supporters and its detractors as Zionism. Just when you think you have seen enough...
On Sunday, at its annual conference in Brighton, the British Green Party voted to recognise Zionism as racism. The motion, which describes Zionism as...
Two days after the announced counter-offensive by the internationally recognised Yemeni government, the operation named Dawn of Yemen has already made...
This October, India is a country where a million mutinies are gathering force. India’s “cockroaches” — supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party...
It has been three years of the genocidal horror in Gaza. Three years of death, destruction, despair and doom. More than 74,000 people have been...
The Republican Party’s powerful alliance with Israel — repeatedly reaffirmed during President Donald Trump’s second term — is rooted in...
More than 1,700 healthcare workers have been killed during the genocide in Gaza. Israel has detained hundreds more without charges. Doctors, nurses...
The world often discusses the nuclear threat posed by Russia, but far less attention is paid to the nuclear risks within Russia itself, particularly...
As Israel prepares to mark three years since the October 7 attacks and with less than a month to go to parliamentary elections, one topic is...
Let’s pretend that the Islamic Republic of Iran had undertaken to execute a 50-year-old woman for a crime committed when she was an 18-year-old....
Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund and Senegal announced a new loan programme worth $2.2bn. This came after a previous deal was...
After more than three years, Washington continues to fumble its way through a response to Sudan’s heart-wrenching war. This past week, it may have...
It is increasingly difficult to regard what is happening in the West Bank as merely a series of measures that the Israeli government justifies on...
A shift is taking place in Washington. Senate Democrats are moving to sanction individuals and entities involved in Israel’s E1 settlement project,...
This week, Botswana is marking 60 years of independence from Britain with Diamond Jubilee celebrations across the country. The anniversary underscores...
The school year started in occupied East Jerusalem with the news that 45,000 Palestinian children are now studying a curriculum put together by the...
Tajikistan’s gross domestic product grew by 8.2 percent year on year in the first half of 2026, while fixed-capital investment rose by 18.4 percent....
It was hardly surprising that Tehran chose the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York as the platform for its latest offer. After nearly...
For the past few months, Irish Sport for Palestine (ISFP), which I am part of, has been campaigning for Ireland to boycott its football matches...
The Strait of Hormuz remains the most perilous choke point on the global map as Iran continues to disrupt traffic by attacking vessels. A recent...
In a world torn apart by geopolitical bullying and geoeconomic warfare, great-power conflict and inequality that concentrates wealth and statecraft in...
Basal human desires never change: to be positively unique, sexually desired, to live in luxury, to be popular, to hold power, and finally, to achieve...
Amid the worsening global energy crisis triggered by the US-Israel war on Iran, European countries, desperate for alternative energy supplies, trade...
The formation of a new armed alliance seeking to remove Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed follows a pattern that has plagued Ethiopia – an empire of many...
The collapse of Yemen’s western front was not primarily the result of sheer Houthi numbers. It resulted from a fused Russian-Iranian command system...
This week marks one year since the United Kingdom, along with nine other Western countries, recognised the State of Palestine. What shifted was...
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States came with all the choreography: a B-2 flyover, pandas, a Nixon-era toast. But for...
On September 27, Switzerland votes on whether to lock a stricter definition of neutrality into its constitution. The initiative would bar Switzerland...
For the past nine months, Liberia has used its experiences of prolonged armed conflict to serve as a principled voice in United Nations debates about...
Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez took to the stage yesterday at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City to deliver...
As world leaders attend the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, there is a chorus of criticisms about the...
Friedrich Merz has been German chancellor for less than a year and half, and his approval ratings are at record lows. His centre-right Christian...
The success of China’s cheap AI technology has clearly worried American AI companies. Industry leaders have openly called on the US government to...