Ghassan Salame: “There is a new millionaire every day in Libya, and the middle class is shrinking day by day …and the political…
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On April 21Ukraine will hold the second round of presidential elections. The voters will have to decide between giving their current president a…
In March of 1969, Chinese troops ambushed and killed a Soviet border patrol on an island near the Chinese-Russian border. Fighting on and near the…
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April 5
Walid Abu Rashed, wearing a yellow wig, and a fellow actor entertain children through a makeshift puppet theatre set up among the rubble of collapsed buildings in the town of Saraqib in the rebel-held northern Idlib province. (Getty)
A Syrian fighter of the Turkish-backed Hamza Division aims a Kalashnikov assault rifle from a position in the village of Ulashli near the frontline in the northeast of Aleppo province. (Getty)
Kyrgyz dancers perform in an event gathering bedouins and nomads from around the world as part of the annual King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah desert, northeast of the Saudi capital Riyadh. (Getty)
Children carry empty tanks to get water in Beira, Mozambique, March 21, 2019, ahead of World Water Day. (Getty)
Two young Chinese women dressed in Han Chinese clothing take photographs of the cherry blossoms with their smartphones in the Yuyuantan Park in Beijing. Hanfu is a name for pre-17th century traditional clothing of the Han Chinese, which are the predominant ethnic group of China. (Getty)
A flock of geese is tended to at a farm in Ipekyolu district of Turkey's eastern Van province. (Getty)
On March 19th, Kazakhstan’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigned after having spent almost 30 years as the country’s leader. Under the Soviet…
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No progress in Islamabad talks
