Hacking at the roots with a shovel, yanking out the severed bush – it’s exhausting work in the equatorial heat. The labourers can expect little respite though, with orders from up high to hasten their efforts. Clearing plantations near the...
Glance at the headlines and you’ll likely feel downbeat about Afghan peace prospects: July 2: Scores Of Children Injured By Kabul Car Bomb. July 7: At Least Fourteen Dead In Ghanzi Attack. Violence in the troubled Middle Eastern state is...
Behold his virtues and plaster him in praise, and you’ll likely go far with America’s Donald Trump. Drop a few home truths and less-than-complimentary remarks, however, and you can expect thumb-tapping fury like no other. Just ask the UK’s “wacky”...
Harpoons concealed beneath tarpaulins, five boats pulled away from the northern Japanese harbour town of Kushiro last week. A thousand miles south in Shimonoseki, three other ships did likewise. Upon their return, the catch of the day – eight metres...
It’s hard to overstate the scale of the City of London. Generating as much money as Germany’s behemoth automobile industry – some $150bn a year – it is the world’s largest financial centre. It hosts 37% of the globe’s currency...
“China is a true friend,” Tanzanian president John Magufuli effused not so long ago. Surprising then, that, early last month, he should be assailing his Chinese partners, accusing them of treatment that could “only be accepted by mad people”. This...
(Mumbai) Amid the thronging arrivals at Mumbai’s main airport, five men – each clad in t-shirts and tracksuit bottoms – shuffle forward. Their fresh faces and fashionable attire give no hint at the ordeal they’ve endured. For 70 days, the...
Peaceful revolutions seldom stay that way for long. Sudan’s desperate decline from bloodless coup to civilian massacre is surely testament to this. Where just weeks earlier jubilant song had filled the Khartoum air, the clatter of gunfire melded with the...
“Whoever wins Istanbul, wins Turkey,” noted president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan not so long ago. Words he’ll live to regret, if ever they come true. The city of his birth, his political awakening and his ascent to power is – after...
To the victor belong the spoils – so goes the old adage. Iraq’s Kurdish community would surely disagree. Instrumental in the military victory over the Islamic State (IS), Kurdistan has fared poorly since the caliphate’s destruction. An abortive independence referendum,...
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