Apr 15, 2024 10:37 am UTC| Insights & Views
Close to midnight on April 13, hundreds of military drones were launched from both Iran and Iraq toward Israel. Subsequently, several waves of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and rockets followed, originating from...
Apr 15, 2024 10:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
A report by Jerusalem-based investigative journalists published in +972 magazine finds that AI targeting systems have played a key role in identifying and potentially misidentifying tens of thousands of targets in Gaza....
After Iran’s attack on Israel, is a devastating regional war next?
Apr 15, 2024 10:30 am UTC| Insights & Views
After almost two weeks of waiting, Tehran retaliated against Israel for the April 1 bombing of its consulate in Damascus, Syria, launching multiple waves of drones and cruise missiles at Israel. More than 300 weapons...
Once enemies, Japan and US strengthen their alliance – and it goes beyond AUKUS
Apr 12, 2024 03:19 am UTC| Insights & Views
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishidas state visit to the White House has already resulted in one of the most ambitious boosts to the United States-Japan alliance. This alliance is now at the core of American strategy to...
Apr 08, 2024 06:11 am UTC| Insights & Views
The fraying relationship between the U.S. and Israel over the latter countrys conduct of its war in Gaza got even worse on April 4, 2024, several days after Israel killed seven aid workers in a drone strike. President Joe...
Moldova: Russia continues its mischief-making in breakaway Transnistria
Apr 01, 2024 11:05 am UTC| Insights & Views
In mid-February, the leader of Moldovas breakaway region of Transnistria, Vadim Krasnoselsky, summoned deputies of all levels of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. The purpose of their meeting, he announced, would be...
Why EU information campaigns are failing to deter migrants from leaving
Mar 28, 2024 12:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views
It was everywhere on the news and social media. In September 2023, 10,000 migrants arrived on the island of Lampedusa, more than doubling the islands population of 6,000 and overwhelming its resources. The migrants mostly...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight