Thousands of fires have raged over the past several weeks in the Amazon, devastating parts of the rainforest and badly damaging Brazil’s global…
Pete Reynolds
Earlier this month,the United Statesofficially brandedChinaa currency manipulator. Trade hawks have long argued thatWashingtonshould call…
Until recently, American perceptions of Chinese technology tended to be either hopeful or dismissive. On the hopeful side, the information revolution…
As Britain’s involvement in the Middle East began to decline after the Second World War, the US’s role in the region started to gradually increase…
The first week in September marked a new phase in the ongoing confrontation between Tehran and the West. While Israel uncovered a new Iranian base…
The drama continues to unfold in Britain’s greatest ever reality show. Last week Boris Johnson, aka “Britain Trump”, kept audiences around the globe…
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…
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