Masses of people have taken to the streets of Baghdad and several southern provinces, angry over corruption, poor public services and lack…
Pete Reynolds
November 1
Participants in costume perform during the annual International Day of the Dead Parade in Mexico City, Mexico on October 27, 2019. Thousands of people from Mexico City took to the streets to enjoy the Day of the Dead parade in which hundreds of artists participated.(Getty)
A displaced Syrian boy cries at a school turned into a shelter for people displaced by the war, in the northeastern Syrian town of Hasakeh, on October 24, 2019.(Getty)
An artist applies colours on earthenware oil pots or diyas locally known as "Donthulu" at a workshop ahead of the Diwali festival in Hyderabad on October 22, 2019. (Getty)
A Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) supporter holds up a poster during an election campaign rally in Mokgweetsi Masisi's, President of Botswana and leader of the BDP, home village in Moshupa, on October 22, 2019. (Getty)
Japan's Emperor Naruhito (L) and Empress Masako (R) depart Akasaka Palace for the court banquet at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on October 22, 2019.(Getty)
Adam Lowe, founder of the Factum Arte foundation, prepares a replica of a "lamassu", an Assyrian protective deity depicted with a human head, the body of a lion, and bird wings, ahead of its unveiling at the University of Mosul in the northern Iraqi city on October 23, 2019. (Getty)
When Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) first rose to power in 2015, some liberal commentators dismissed the populist upsurge as an…
As unprecedented protests took over the streets of Lebanon- from the North, all the way to the South, through Beirut and the mountains, the Lebanese…
In a world aflame with protest,Latin Americastands out as a raging ten-alarm fire. FromBoliviatoEcuador,HaititoHonduras, the closing months of…
The Sultanate of Oman, the oldest independent state in the Arab world, voted this week to elect an 86 member consultative council. Oman’s location at…
In 2015, over 1.2 million asylum seekers arrived in theEuropean Union. They were fleeing war zones inAfghanistan,South Sudan, andSyria; economic…
The din of partisanship in Washington quieted briefly this weekend as figures across the political spectrum hailed the demise of ISIS leader Abu Bakr…
On the face of it, the gritty comic-book blockbuster “Joker,” the hit female-led crime drama “Hustlers,” the darkly comic Korean-language…
Natural resources are a funny thing in the Middle East; some states in the region suffer from a general scarcity of water while others have abundant…
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