While social tension and unrest in the streets of the United States have garnered most of the headlines, in the diplomatic backgroundm the makings of…
Michelle Thompson
May 29
fire broke out in an auto parts store across from the Minneapolis police's Third Precinct station Wednesday amid a second night of protest. (Getty)
Brazilian 99-year-old former WWII combatant Ermando Armelino Piveta, gestures as leaves the Armed Forces Hospital in Brasilia, after being treated for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 and discharged, on April 14, 2020. (Getty)
A Yemeni street vendor looks at his damaged stall due to floods following heavy rains in the capital Sanaa, on April 14, 2020. (Getty)
An aerial view of the Grand Mosque and Kaaba in the centre of Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on May 24, during the early hours of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday which starts at the conclusion of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Getty)
A Colombian Huitoto indigenous man sails on a raft along the Takana river in Leticia, department of Amazonas, Colombia on May 20, 2020 during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. (Getty)
Mateo De La Tierra, a local nurse, protested on his knees in full scrubs. Over 100 people showed up on the corner of London Rd and 21st Ave E in Duluth, MN on Wednesday May 27, 2020 to protest the death of George Floyd. (Getty)
No country has been as simultaneously praised and criticized asSwedenhas for its response to the novel coronavirus. Each day brings new discussion,…
Mustafa al-Kadhimi, Iraq’s new prime minister as ofMay 12, has already announced a bold intention. In a short government manifesto he submitted to…
Even before the coronavirus hitBritain, exhaustion, anxiety, and stress were already endemic in the country's overstretched National Health Service…
Caption Born in 1943 in Tarhouna, Libya, Haftar was one of the group of officers led by Col Muammar Gaddafi which seized…
When the Lebanese Civil War ended, Rafic El Hariri set out to bring back normal life to Lebanon, and of course, he started with the political…
Recently, there have been good signs that pointed towards a possible decline of Iranian interference in the region.First, there has been the recent…
On February 29, 2020, the United States and the Taliban signed a peace deal in Doha, Qatar. The deal has been one of the most contentious treaties in…
As the first wave of the coronavirus outbreak appears to have crested, older patterns of conflict and foreign policy are re-asserting themselves…
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Doha strike: Israel goes after the Gaza negotiating table
