The Arab world in Africa
Economic ties are the clearest evidence of closer Gulf-Africa relations. In the 2010s annual average trade between sub-Saharan Africa and the United Arab Emirates was less than half of that between the region and America. But since 2020 the sum of imports and exports between the United Arab Emirates and sub-Saharan Africa has been larger. Gulf interest in African
Ukraine war “crisis”
The conflict has triggered the deepest crisis in Moscow’s relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and Russia reacted angrily after French President Emmanuel Macron last month refused to rule out sending troops to Ukraine. Russia warned on Wednesday that the war in Ukraine could spin out of control and expand geographically
Russia Used Chemical attacks in Ukraine
The number of recorded chemical attacks is a stark increase from previous reporting in January that found Russia had used “poisonous chemical weapons” 626 times throughout the war up to that point. The chemical weapon most often used by Russian forces is the K-51, which the Ukrainian World Congress described as a nonlethal teargas hand
Russia thwarted an incursion from Ukraine
Soldiers who Kyiv officials say are Russian volunteers fighting for Ukraine claimed to have crossed the border. The Freedom of Russia Legion, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Siberian Battalion released statements and videos on social media claiming to show them on Russian territory. Ukrainian long-range drones smashed into two oil facilities deep inside Russia
US TikTok ban
TikTok is owned by a Beijing-based, Cayman Islands-registered firm, Byte Dance. If the US bill becomes law, ByteDance would be required to sell TikTok within six months or face a ban from US app stores and web hosting platforms. TikTok has denied it has any links with China’s government and said it has restructured the
Women Fertility with Age
It’s true that more women in their late 30s will experience difficulties conceiving and, in some cases, face more risks in pregnancy and delivery itself than women in their late 20s or early 30s. However, the decline is a continuum, not a cliff, and it looks different from one woman to the next. Female fertility
Haiti Political Crisis
Over the past two weeks, Haiti’s powerful gangs have plunged a country already on life support into a coma. More than 3,800 hardened criminals were broken out of Haiti’s two biggest jails, the country’s international airport has been partially taken over, and gangs have tried to seize the political quarter of its capital, Port-au-Prince. Haiti’s
First Gaza aid ship
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ability to stay in power may be in doubt, the assessment suggested that a more moderate government could end up succeeding Netanyahu’s hardline coalition meanwhile A ship carrying 200 tons of food aid to the Gaza Strip left a port in Cyprus this morning, the first to set sail as
Germany has criticized Pope for carrying a white flag
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy angrily rejected the call for negotiations, and questioned why the church was attempting to “mediate virtually between someone who wants to live and someone who wants to destroy you.” The pope urged for the parties in the conflict to “negotiate” and hailed what the called the “courage to raise the white
Pro-Kyiv volunteers attacks Russia
Anti-Kremlin Russian armed groups say they have launched an attack on a village in western Russia, along the border with Ukraine. The Kursk region’s governor confirmed fighting took place, saying that the pro-Kyiv volunteers made no breakthrough. An armed group made up of Russian volunteers fighting for Ukraine says it has captured the village of