The United Nations’ Human Rights Council slammed Washington’s latest sanctions imposed on Venezuela, adding that such an embargo will worsen the famine in the once oil-rich nation in Latin America. “I am deeply worried about the potentially severe impact on...
There has always been bad blood between Europe and Donald and the Iran crisis has revived conflicts which have been of constant concern for the presidential administration in the United States. For those European countries that undersigned the agreement on...
As the United States and Russia leave the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, both states are planning for a future of unrestrained arms production. Moscow and Washington tell different stories when it comes to identifying the failure of the long-standing...
In the absence of a new Iranian nuclear deal, a prospect that appears more elusive by the day, Tehran has a couple options at its disposal. As Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian studies at Columbia University, opined for Al Jazeera...
Two years following the most recent attempt to resolve the Cyprus problem in the Swiss town of Crans-Montana, the President of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, will meet on August 9 with the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci. The meeting will be...
Israel’s decision to approve construction permits for Palestinians in Area C is part of a larger plan to annex the West Bank, sources familiar with the issue suggest. On 30 July, the Israeli Security Cabinet approved building permits for Palestinians...
Australia confirmed that it would not host the US intermediate-range missiles deployed in Asia, following Washington’s formal withdrawal from the Cold War-era nuclear deal signed with then-Soviet Union, called the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF). US Defense Secretary Mark Esper expressed...
When Kenya’s cabinet secretary for Finance, Henry Rotich, was arrested and put on the dock on July 22 for alleged corruption, it somewhat marked a watershed period for the jaded Administration of President Uhuru Kenyatta, which is widely considered to...
The second amendment, ratified in December of 1792, to the United States Constitution states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be...
“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom” were the iconic words of India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, on the eve of the country’s independence from the British empire....