The past two weeks have been some of the most tumultuous weeks for Brexit after British Prime Minister, Boris, Johnson, made the decision to suspend…
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Tourists ride camels at Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Lake scenic area August 20, 2019 in Dunhuang, Gansu Province of China. (Getty)
Rohingya refugees attend a ceremony organized to remember the second anniversary of the Rohingya crisis on August 25, 2019 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Myanmar's military crackdown on the ethnic Muslim minority forced over 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh from violence and torture. Some 200,000 Rohingya rallied in a Bangladesh refugee camp on August 25 to mark two years since they fled Myanmar. (Getty)
People hold candles during the celebrations for Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorns 67th birthday in Bangkok . (Getty)
Palestinian men perform fire breathing on the beach as an entertainment for children during the summer vacation in Gaza City . (Getty)
A man trips in rushing flood waters as he tries to hold onto a rope to help people to cross the street following heavy monsoon rains outside the Moinuddin Chishti sufi shrine in Ajmer in the western Indian state of Rajasthan . (Getty)
Iraqi Kurdish women mourn at the site of a mass grave of victims likely killed during the reign of ex-dictator Saddam Hussein, exhumed by the Baghdad-based Medico-Legal Directorate, in Tal al-Sheikhiya in the southern province of Mutahanna. (Getty)
InAugust 2008, I visited a hospital roughly 100 miles outside the Zimbabwean capital,Harare. Hundreds of patients lay in overcrowded wards and on…
On the night ofAugust 17, as over 1,000 guests danced at a wedding celebration inDubaiCity, a hall inKabulnamed after the Afghan elite’s favorite…
Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny.Witold Szablowski.Penguin Books, 2018. 256pp.Welcome to the Wild East…
Raja Nicola Abdul Masih was born in the Masalma neighbourhood of Omdurman in Sudan in the 1950s. She is a member of Sudan’s Coptic…
At first, when demonstrators began spilling into city streets, citizens were surprised by their audacity and struck by their idealism, openness, and…
In the wake of the Brexit crisis, the idea of a unitedIrelandhas returned to the political agenda. Politicians in both parts of a divided country…
On August 28, the Queen approved Boris Johnson’s request to “prorogue,” or suspend, parliament just days after it returns from summer recess next…
Brexituncertainty hangs like a cloud over Britain’s workforce and has brought us nightmarish new headlines from the business world on almost weekly…
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A too weak ceasefire?
