Last Sunday, the last of 12,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops left Mali, ordered out by the military regime that seized power after two successive coups in 2020 and 2021.
Last year was probably the hottest in the past 10,000 years — but everybody agrees that this year will be even hotter.
Today (or yesterday, or tomorrow), the known death toll of Palestinians since October 7 will reach 20,000.
The key debate on the last day of the COP28 climate summit was about whether or not the conference should endorse a resolution to phase out fossil fuels — or, less ambitiously, phase them "down" ...
"If you were OK with us killing 5000 children, you are OK with killing 10,000 children," Daniel Levy said, a former Israeli diplomat who helped negotiate the Oslo peace accords in the 1990s.
One hundred years ago this week, in the midst of World War 1, the British government sent a letter known as the Balfour Declaration that led, three decades later, to the creation of the state of...
Today's Hiroshima does not give television journalists a lot to work with. It is a raucous, bustling, mid-sized Japanese city with only few reminders of its destruction by atomic bomb in 1945.
"The Russians had a more realistic analysis of the situation than practically anybody else,'' said Lakhdar Brahimi, the former United Nations special envoy to Syria.
Rodrigo Duterte, who has just been elected president of the Philippines, comes across as Donald Trump on stilts.
Shortly before John Kasich dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, leaving Donald Trump as the only candidate, the Ohio governor put up a spoof video on the internet.
Property prices in central Baghdad are as high as London's, even though Iraq's national income is down by 70% since the collapse in the oil price.
How is this for a staunch defence of free speech in a secular state?
If you spend a lot of time talking to scientists about climate change, there's one word you'll hear time and time again, and yet it's hardly ever mentioned in the public discussion of climate change. The word is ‘‘non-linear''.
You couldn't make this stuff up.
A recent headline on the leading French newspaper Le Monde said it all: ‘‘Migrants, the Euro, Brexit: The European Union is mortal.'' And it's true. The EU could actually collapse over these three threats.
"These are my principles, and if you don't like them ... Well, I have others.'' (Groucho Marx)
After the Syrian army recaptured the city of Palmyra from Islamic State a week ago, US State Department spokesman John Kirby admitted that the liberation of the ancient city was a ‘‘good thing''.
Finally, after Aung San Suu Kyi founded the National League for Democracy in 1988, after she won the 1990 election by a landslide, after the military ignored the results and put her under house arrest for 15 of the next 21 years, after a difficult five-year transition since 2011 where the return of democracy to Burma was often in doubt, after 54 years of military rule, the woman Burmese just call "The Lady' is in power.
Early next week, the deal made between the European Union and Turkey to stem the flood of refugees into the EU goes into effect. It will promptly blow up in everybody's face, for three reasons.
A British journalist compared the huge American delegation (800-1200 people) that is accompanying President Barack Obama on his first visit to Havana to Japanese soldiers stumbling out of the jungle to discover that the war ended a generation ago.
