From dhows carrying spices to tankers carrying oil, trade between South Asia and Arabia has been healthy for hundreds of years, with room to grow further.
Relations have plummeted between Paris and Algiers. The latter sought a fairer deal, but the former seemed to want only oil, gas, and a grain market. As French firms leave, Algeria is moving on.
The largest deal of its kind between two Arab countries on different continents focuses on collaboration and investment in cars, batteries, energy, and phosphates. It is all part of a bigger vision.
Serenaded in Beijing, whose yuan he wants, the Tunisian president has upended half a century of foreign policy to boost a flagging economy and avert unrest ahead of his re-election… But at what price?
The US could be secretly negotiating with elements in the government to take charge. The alternative is state and popular resistance, which sets the stage for more military action and insurgency.
Venezuela's vice president is known for having a diplomatic style that is confrontational in tone but cautious in substance, and pursuing a strategy that marries public defiance with quiet pragmatism
In an interview with Al Majalla, the senior US diplomat says that while the US may no longer play the role of world policeman, it is not isolationist either
If anywhere encapsulates the Syrian capital in recent decades, it is this enigmatic and iconic public space, which has seen more than its fair share of changes