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...
It was not spectacular, but then EU decisions rarely are. Fudge is often top of the menu in Brussels. But its effects may have long-term consequences both for Europe’s energy sector and its geopolitical position between the US and Russia....
In May last year, US President Donald Trump spurned his European allies by scrapping a nuclear deal with Iran that they had spent years negotiating. In Poland this week, Washington will try to get them back on board its anti-Tehran...
CAIRO – A new Egyptian bid for reconciliation between bitter Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah is on the rocks after the latter said it would not meet the Gaza-ruling faction in Egyptian capital Cairo if invited to. Member of Fatah’s...
The sounds of a wailing wife and children witnessing their man being shot dead on the other end of the line, the repeat gunshots by a remorseless paramilitary unit and the groans cries of an innocent man begging for his life and telling his killers they’ve got the wrong guy. It’s a set of sounds that once played, just can’t be unheard. Two, the tape has, for the first time, made the Bangla government set up a formal commission of inquiry into unlawful killing by law enforcement.