Italian unions and citizens in more than 75 cities protested government inaction on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Dock workers and demonstrators closed ports and blocked streets, halting commerce ...
So, as usual, we’ll have a three-part structure. We are going to first ask the question: What are these tensions? Then we are going to pose the question: Why do we have these tensions? And then we ...
At the recently concluded World Economic Forum in Switzerland and the Munich Security Conference in Germany, a striking rhetorical current ran through the discussions of great-power rivalry and ...
Russia hosted the World Cup in characteristically spectacular style even as the sentiment of the great powers of the West turned against it. As in the previous three tournaments, the defending ...
India’s foreign policy emphasizes a multipolar world, balancing independence with ...
Zambian authorities seized 2 planes: 1 with gold, cash, weapons, and detained 10 suspects, including Egyptians.
Similar to Jews and Palestinians, Kurds have faced oppression, displacement, and a long struggle for statehood. Although most Kurds are Muslim, their views on the Israel-Palestine conflict vary. Some ...
As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...
China's economy is grappling with a mounting debt crisis, particularly at the local government level, driven by fiscal deficits, shrinking land revenues and implicit debt burdens. This article ...
Today, Iran is ruled by a theocratic regime. It is easy to blame the mullahs for all of Iran’s ills. However, it is an inconvenient truth that their path to power was paved by the British and the ...
Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early part of the 20th century, the Middle East has been marked by conflict, violence, political instability, foreign interference, the rise and consequent ...
I’m sitting on the hot sand at Playa de Zicatela in Puerto Escondido, a sleepy hamlet on Mexico’s Pacific coast, exhausted after a long session on the waves. My friend Neftali is on his back, lain out ...