South Africa stands out as a country that strongly defends democracy
Early on Monday, relief workers located the missing helicopter, with state TV saying the president had died
Much is at stake for the wealthy, US-friendly Gulf states, whose expensive economic diversification plans rely on a peaceful environment for business and tourism
Iran’s mission to the United Nations warned Washington to keep out of its conflict with Israel, and said that ‘the matter can be deemed concluded’
Almost all of the drones and missiles were intercepted before they reached Israel, with help from the United States, Jordan and other allies
Tehran is the archetype of a place that is governed by the divine but defined by mortals
Pakistan said the ‘precision military strikes’ were against terrorist hideouts
The US Secretary of Defence ordered the activation of air defence systems and notified additional forces that they may be deployed soon
A wider Middle East war would hit an already fragile and fragmented economy.
We could yet witness the bloc emerge as a new power hub but only after a plethora of issues have been solved
The president tells the National Assembly he does not believe in sidelining nations, but rather to engage with other countries on human rights
It is a dishonest evasion to excuse the horrors of the Iranian regime on the grounds that some of its Western accusers have a tainted human rights record
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema says Cuba, Venezuela, Palestine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo must also be added to the Brics economic bloc
Iran, which was favoured by the Russians, is said to have also received the nod from the Brazilians, but various sanctions are likely to be its stumbling block
The Middle-Eastern power is waking up to the continent’s potential as a strategic partner for oil exploration, among other win-win ventures
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent shock waves around the world. As the International Crisis Group shows, several other crises loom
A senior official has linked the US approach toward Iran’s protests with Tehran’s foreign and security policies regarding Russia
Authoritarian systems reject challenges to themselves – yet just that is happening in Ukraine and Russia, China and Iran
Nomically, the left advocates pluralism and promotes difference, but only within a network of fixed, essentialized identities, and so permissiveness becomes prohibition.
The Three Lions played like a team unencumbered by public scrutiny. Iran did not have that luxury
England need to find their form and have the perfect group to do it in
Authoritarian would-be emperors such as Putin and Jinping and the US’s military-industrial complex erode the open society and its values of individual freedoms
Iranian women outside Iran have an important role in the protests against the regime, explains an activist
When Russia illegally invaded Ukraine, was not that the moment for the United Nations to send its secretary general to Moscow to demand a ceasefire?
The need for medical oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients in low- and middle-income countries has more than doubled in the past two months, and many of these countries faced oxygen shortages before the pandemic
Israel’s iron grip over Palestinians had its beginnings in the demise of the Ottoman Empire and Britain and France’s arbitrary mapping out of the Middle East
But the country also has its weaknesses
With the US announcing its ‘recalibration’ of its relationship with Saudi Arabia, it remains to be seen whether the oil-rich kingdom feels cowed
President-elect Joe Biden, who defeated Trump at the ballot box in November, has signalled a willingness to return to diplomacy with Iran after four tense years under the outgoing president
A new bike-sharing initiative in the Iranian capital is trying to ameliorate the city’s traffic and pollution problem
China is becoming the preferred destination for countries such as Ghana and Nigeria
This year, an unprecedented fiscal crunch caused by low oil prices forced the government to suspend infrastructure investments. But new dams alone won’t save Iraq’s waterways, experts warn.