Xi-Putin meeting: here's what it says about their current, and future, relationship
Oct 15, 2023 04:13 am UTC| Insights & Views
Vladimir Putin is expected to travel outside the borders of the former Soviet Union for the first time in 20 months to meet Chinas Xi Jinping on October 17. The visit, if it happens, is likely to entrench a relationship in...
Hamas: what you need to know about the group that attacked Israel
Oct 15, 2023 04:09 am UTC| Insights & Views
The group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, crossing into the country from Gaza killing hundreds of civilians and taking dozens of hostages. Military confrontations between Hamas and Israel are not unusual....
Oct 15, 2023 04:06 am UTC| Insights & Views
As the Israeli army has stepped up its counteroffensive into the Gaza Strip, questions remain on how the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas was able to use bulldozers, hang gliders and motorbikes to conduct the largest...
Ukraine recap: what war in the Middle East means for Putin and Ukraine
Oct 15, 2023 04:05 am UTC| Insights & Views
For some people it was a week when they forgot that the Ukraine war was happening. As news from the Middle East took up longer and longer slots on news programmes and websites, reports from Ukraine were pushed off the...
Israel has no good options for dealing with Hamas' hostage-taking in Gaza
Oct 12, 2023 07:27 am UTC| Insights & Views
Hamas, the Gaza-based Palestinian militant group that mounted a deadly surprise attack on Israel that has killed at last count at least 1,200 Israelis, has captured what are estimated to be 150 hostages. Brought back to...
Israel-Gaza conflict: how could it change the Middle East's political landscape? Expert Q&A
Oct 12, 2023 07:27 am UTC| Insights & Views
The surprise attack by Hamas launched on Israel on October 7 has already led to thousands of deaths in both Israel and Gaza, and sparked concerns that the conflict could escalate across the Middle East. An expert in the...
How Hamas weaponised Palestinians' despair
Oct 12, 2023 07:25 am UTC| Insights & Views
The scale of Hamas attack on Israel on 7 and 8 October is unprecedented and the failure of the Israeli army and secret services, astonishing. Yet for observers such as former Israeli ambassador to France, Elie Barnavi, the...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects