“Mabruk” is a common word in Arabic used to greet good news, though in the Middle East recently this has been in scarce supply. However, President Donald Trump’s recent visit to the Middle East had many in the region feeling … Read More
GERMANY should pay Poland hundreds of billions of pounds for the damage caused in the Second World War – politicians are demanding. Relations between Berlin and Warsaw are at boiling point as the EU threatens to mobilise Article 7 against … Read More
North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment. The new analysis … Read More
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump threatened on Tuesday to unleash “fire and fury” against North Korea if it endangers the United States as tensions with the isolated nuclear-armed state grow into perhaps the most serious foreign policy challenge yet in … Read More
Standing on deck seeing children, women and men up to their waist in seawater because their boat is slowly deflating, world politics suddenly seem very far away. We are the only ones here, in international waters. No other vessels around … Read More
Famine. 20 million people now on the brink in Africa and the Middle East. We’ve got reporters on the frontlines. Right now, today, the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II is unfolding from Yemen to Nigeria. 20 million people … Read More
Russia will speed up work on reducing its dependence on U.S. payment systems and the dollar as a settling currency in response to U.S. sanctions, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday. Quoted by Reuters, Ryabkov said that “we … Read More
If Israel is chosen to fill a seat in the United Nations Security Council it would be a political farce and a scandal, Ahmad Majdalani, member of the PLO Executive Committee, said on Saturday, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. … Read More
At least one-third of the largest German state wants to gain independence from Berlin and Brussels, a new poll shows. The poll, published by the newspaper Bild, shows that 32% of the Free State of Bavaria wants to get away … Read More
NORTH KOREA has warned it will launch “thousands-fold” revenge against the US over the adoption of UN sanctions. The threat comes two days after Donald Trump welcomed the single largest economic sanctions package ever on Kim Jong-un’s regime. It comes … Read More