“There won’t be anything, because there wasn’t anything,” he said time and again. But in a bombshell intervention last week, Benjamin Netanyahu’s hand-picked attorney general begged to differ. Indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust, Israel’s longest-serving...
Leached of land and leadership, the so-called Islamic State (IS) lies in ruin. But the ill-fated caliphate has a final, overdue reckoning for the West. Thousands of foreign terror recruits, rounded up amid IS’s chaotic collapse, now languish in prison....
In Lebanon, a shattered sectarian system looks to be breathing its last. Weeks of protests have shaken the Middle Eastern state, propelling from office a prime minister and his unpopular policies. But for those on the streets, it’s only a...
Abrazos, no balazos – so goes Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s political mantra. Hugs, not bullets. There’s been plenty of both in Mexico’s blood-soaked month of murder. The newly elected president has pledged to end his nation’s violence epidemic, but the...
Pursued, fired upon, then captured by Russian sailors, the Ukrainian crew must’ve feared their plight might go unnoticed. But it didn’t. Days after the Kerch Strait incident late last year, a multinational reconnaissance plane soared over the turbulent waters. With...
Arson, assault, and a growing sense of animosity – life is tough on L.A.’s notorious Skid Row. Home to 5,000 rough sleepers, it is considered ground-zero in the city’s accelerating homelessness crisis. Numbers have steadily risen in recent years, stalked...
Two men gaze out over the Bay of Bengal. They might’ve been chums on a coastal stroll, but Xi Jinping and Narendra Modi aren’t old friends. Locked in a ceaseless jostle for regional supremacy, the planet’s most populous nations have,...
Five years ago, the US troops stationed in Poland could fit on a bus. That was before shadowy, insignia-less soldiers crossed from Russia into the Ukraine, annexing the Crimean peninsula. Aghast at Moscow’s seizure of sovereign land, the West began...
He’s connected one-third of the world, and now he wants a piece of what makes it go round. That’s Mark Zuckerberg and his ambitious new Libra project – a Facebook-borne digital currency announced earlier this year. It’s a typically vaulting...
Clad in long sleeves and fluorescent vests – their cause’s de facto emblem – the heat must’ve been unbearable. But that’s precisely why Qatar’s beleaguered workforce had risen in protest. Forced to toil in 45°C sun, sometimes with little water,...
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