Mali weighs its options amid US and Russian overtures

With its mineral wealth and jihadist dilemma, Mali is entertaining both the Americans and the Russians, to see what each can offer, and what they want in return

Sergey Eledinov and Konstantin Terentev

Boris Johnson Charts his Own Course

In the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic Boris Johnsonclaimed his government was “following the science” at every step of its plan. But as the virus resurges and asecond wave of…

Al Majalla - London

The Coronavirus Election

Amid the tumult of coronavirus, the US presidential election is looming ever closer.When a global pandemic sickens more than 6 million Americans and kills over 210,000, its ripples -- economic,…

Al Majalla - London

Joe Biden: The Long Arc of his Political Career  

Long before reaching one of the highest political offices in the nation, Biden — born on November 20, 1942 — grew up in the blue-collar city of Scranton in northeast Pennsylvania…

Al Majalla - London

The Death Penalty Isolates America

OnJanuary 22, 2009, his second full day in office,U.S.PresidentBarack Obamasigned an executive order prohibitingthe use of torture by theU.S.government and revoking legal interpretations from…

Daniel Baer