As I waited for the flight from Athens to Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport, a buoyant British man sat nearby, absorbed in a book. His good…

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While eyes have been fixed on stock markets, currency fluctuations, and political headlines, a recent United Nations report sounded an alarm that…

The European Union and Mercosur, a bloc of South American countries, first started negotiating their trade deal last century. In 1999, Bill Clinton…

Over a legendary career spanning 58 years, Youssef Chahine directed around 40 films, including several shorts and documentaries. On the centenary of…

At a time of deepening tensions with Washington over US President Donald Trump’s desire to seize control of Greenland, the ancestry of the country’s…

With a hesitant United Nations endorsement, the proposed Board of Peace was initially devised to uphold the ceasefire in Gaza, oversee reconstruction…

Since its inception under American auspices, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has served as the US-led Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State…

Venezuela’s relationship with the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) stretches back decades. In September 1960, Venezuela stood…