New diplomatic and security ties are reshaping the Middle East as former enemies seek unity in containing Iran, the U.S. rethinks its security role in the region, and Russia and China seek to exploit openings left by Washington. A historic summit starting Sunday in Sde Boker, Israel, illustrates the...
SEOUL – South Korea’s PresidentMoon Jae-in and its President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol are at loggerheads over the future of the presidential residence – and much else. The two are expected to dine together on Monday evening for a pre-transition meeting that comes after what is being reported as the...
In 2018, Singaporean scholar, author and ex-diplomat Kishore Mahbubani published one of his more provocative essays as a small book. Has the WestLost It? addresses the question of why the West “refuses to accept or adapt to” its own relative decline and the rise of China, India and the rest of the...
Robert Walton, the commander of a ship going for the Polar Region, writes a collection of letters to his sister in England detailing the progression of his perilous voyage. After a successful start, the operation is quickly derailed by waters choked with ice. When Walton becomes trapped, he meets...
The fact that numerous languages from all across the globe, especially in the Western world, have borrowed words, phrases and expressions from the Greek language, is not news. It is also well-known that the English language – which is the most spoken language on our planet in terms of its total...
Saying he hopes Russia’s one-month-old war on Ukraine war will end as soon as possible, Turkiye's presidential spokesman on Sunday underlined the need for a new security architecture in the world. “We are all trying to make this war come to an end sooner rather than later, (and) there...
An initial toxicology report into the death of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has been carried out by health officials in Bogotá, Colombia. READ MORE: Taylor Hawkins, 1972 – 2022: Foo Fighters drummer who always stole the show Hawkins died on Friday (March 25) at the age of 50 and was found in...
This story originally appeared in Jacobin on March 24, 2022. It is shared here with permission. Madeleine Albright, who died Wednesday at the age of eighty-four, was America’s first female secretary of state. But the countless headlines touting that fact risk reducing her accomplishments to gender....