Saudi Arabia won’t back out on Palestine: King Salman tells Arab allies
News Analysis | Saudi monarch King Salman has reassured to all Arab allies in general, and Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas in particular, that Saudi Arabia...
Myanmar floods kill at least five, displace 54,000 people
AFP | Rising floodwaters have killed at least five people and forced tens of thousands from their homes across swathes of Myanmar, a government official...
Four million in Indian state risk losing citizenship
AFP | India on Monday effectively stripped four million people in Assam of citizenship, sparking fears of mass deportations of Muslims from the northeastern state....
Iraqi farmers fight to save cattle from drought
AFP | Iraqi farmer Sayyed Sattar knows he'll soon have to let some of his buffalo go as he surveys the herd bathing in a...
Will the new government knock on IMF’s door? – Dr. Ashfaque Hasan Khan
There are immediate, short term and then medium to long term challenges. The immediate challenge for the new government is what to do with...
Japan to spend $4.2 bn over 30 years on missile defence system radar
AFP | Japan said Monday it would spend some $4.2 billion over the next 30 years on installing and operating US radar systems to protect...
Nazis, racists, bigots: Extremism on US ballot in 2018
AFP | Arthur Jones is an avowed Nazi. John Fitzgerald says the Holocaust is a myth. Rick Tyler wants to "make America white again." Extremist candidates...
In Italy’s Conte, Trump sees a like-minded European
AFP | US President Donald Trump receives Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Monday, welcoming to the White House a European populist with like-minded views...
This was General Election 2018 and not a general(‘s) selection
Shiffa Yousafzai | NY times said Military’s influence is casting a shadow over Pakistan’s elections, Foreign Affairs asked if democracy is dying in Pakistan, while...
Boko Haram jihadists raid military base in NE Nigeria
AFP | Boko Haram fighters aboard dozens of vehicles raided a base near a key city in northeast Nigeria, in their latest assault on the...
Putin says ‘ready to go to Washington’, invites Trump to Moscow
AFP | Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he had invited US leader Donald Trump to visit Moscow and was ready to travel to...
Ahed Tamimi, symbol of Mid East conflict, prepares for freedom
AFP | A Palestinian teenager jailed by Israel for slapping and kicking Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank is to go free on Sunday...