Countries at risk of extremely high water stress
The UN is making a grim prediction that at least 700M people could be displaced due to intense water scarcity by 2030 at a time when the climate crisis is […]
‘Trapped’: Most Gaza children suffer distress after 15-year Israeli siege
13 HOURS AGO International NGO Save the Children said around 800,000 young people in Gaza have “never known life without the blockade”. Four out of five children in Gaza suffer […]
Politics of economy
Politics of economy Zahid Hussain Published June 15, 2022 THE slide seems unstoppable. The finance minister’s balancing act in the budget has failed to end the anxiety. The free fall of the rupee against the […]
Exploring the Hindu and Jain heritage of an ‘Islamic’ city
RANA SAFVI Topics India Hindutva Hindu Temples Mughal Empire Muslims In India Temples from Mughal-era India demonstrates the fluidity of art and contradicts contemporary Hindu nationalist historical revisionism. When one […]
UN human rights chief decries suppression of women in Afghanistan
BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE – AFP GENEVA JUN 15, 2022 – An Afghan girl reads a book inside her home in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 13, 2022. (Reuters Photo) The United Nations human […]
Forty years on, Sabra and Shatila massacre remain public relations disaster for Israel
Jun 15,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen Between September 14 and 16 40 years ago, fighters from the Phalange, Lebanese Forces militia and Saad Haddad’s Israeli-surrogate South Lebanon Army […]
US will send $1 billion more in aid to Ukraine: President Biden
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON JUN 15, 2022 U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the 29th AFL-CIO Quadrennial Constitutional Convention at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, U.S., June 14, 2022. […]
Saudi Arabia calls for safeguarding the welfare, political rights of Rohingya
1 / 2 Dr. Al-Wasel called for the renunciation of violence and the resolution of the crisis through dialogue. @KSAPermanentGVA 2 / 2 @KSAPermanentGVANext Short Url https://arab.news/p36g3 ARAB NEWS June 16, 2022 […]
Unintended regional consequences of the Ukraine war
DR. ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG June 15, 2022 Short Url The geopolitical shifts caused by the war in Ukraine have been unexpectedly dramatic and certainly unintended. The new cold war between […]
Biden will see a new Middle East when he visits next month
IBRAHIM SHUKRALLA June 15, 2022 Short Url The UAE and Israel’s economic relationship has developed enormously since the Abraham Accords were signed in 2020. And the two countries last month […]