The Israel-Hamas war: No matter who loses, Iran wins
Oct 09, 2023 03:43 am UTC| Insights & Views
There will be only one winner in the war that has broken out between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. And it is neither Israel nor Hamas. In an operation coined the Al-Aqsa Storm, Hamas, whose formal...
Oct 05, 2023 03:34 am UTC| Politics Insights & Views
Nearly 30 years after the infamous Battle of Mogadishu, the U.S. military is still conducting operations in Somalia. Popularized in the U.S. by the 2001 film Black Hawk Down, the Battle of Mogadishu occurred on Oct. 3,...
Ukraine war: Russian shelling is taking a deadly toll on urban bats
Oct 02, 2023 06:25 am UTC| Politics
Russias invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has given rise to a humanitarian crisis. More than 6.2 million people have fled Ukraine as a result of heavy shelling and fighting, and an additional 5.1 million people have...
Ukraine war: Slovakia may be about to elect a government which plans to halt aid to Kyiv
Sep 29, 2023 09:15 am UTC| Politics
Slovakians head to the polls on September 30 to elect a new parliament. The result will not only have a huge impact on the domestic affairs of this small central European state but also, beyond its borders, on the balance...
Ukraine recap: Ukraine and allies maintain optimism despite slow progress on the battlefield
Sep 29, 2023 08:51 am UTC| Politics
At a press conference after talks with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, this afternoon, Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg sounded like a man determined to take a glass half full attitude when he said that...
Ukraine War: why the Black Sea is key to Kyiv’s counteroffensive
Sep 23, 2023 03:17 am UTC| Politics
Ukraine has launched its largest drone attack to date on Russian assets in the Black Sea and Crimea. This is consistent with an escalation in attacks on Crimea and the surrounding region in recent weeks, highlighting the...
Sep 19, 2023 00:44 am UTC| Politics
This fall, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is slated to lead a bipartisan group of U.S. senators to China. The planned trip, like other recent visits to China by high-ranking U.S. officials, is aimed at improving the...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects