From whichever angle you look at it, the year 2016 marked a turning point. The British people voted to leave the European Union, giving way to what has been termed Brexit, and Americans elected Donald Trump to the White House....
As Israel holds its parliamentary elections, all eyes are on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and whetheror not he can retain his position. No stranger to politics, Netanyahu has held onto power twice already since 2009 and is trying to become...
“We are the EU”, so say all 28 countries of the European Union. The UK Eurosceptics though see the EU as ‘Brussels’, something to be fought, like Henry V did at Agincourt. To its supporters the EU is about unity...
Three months of ongoing anti-government protests in Sudan and still there are no signs of embattled 75-year-old President Omar Al Bashir stepping down. Triggered by a new round of austerity measures, the current wave of protests began last year on...
Captain Marvel opened this weekend to a monster box office haul of $153 million domestically and over $450 million worldwide. Its star Brie Larson heralded it as ‘the biggest feminist movie of all time’ but behind this glossy, progressive veneer...
(Cairo) Egypt has made yet another positive gesture toward Hamas, the movement that rules the Palestinian Gaza Strip, by releasing four members of its military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, almost three years after they were kidnapped in Sinai....
(Damascus) In a surprise foreign visit, the third of its kind in 8 years, Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad traveled to Tehran on February 25th, with the previous 2 such international visits being to Sochi, Russia, to meet with President Vladimir...
When the nonagenarian Robert Mugabe was finally pushed from the Zimbabwean Presidential throne by his military after nearly four decades in power, the world and the six million Zimbabweans living in exile breathed a sigh of relief. And the new...
According to a new report from the Washington Post, China is inching forward with an expansion into the Middle East. Gerry Shih traveled to Tajikistan, a country in the heart of Asia that borders Afghanistan, China, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. There,...
President Bouteflika, 81 and seriously infirm, would still claim a fifth term next April as he is backed by many within the political spectrum. Although critically enfeebled, Algeria’s current president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, will be running for a fifth term in...
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