European leaders sought influence in the Middle East as tensions rose over Gaza and pressure mounted for a two-state solution. France, the UK and Portugal recognized Palestine, but US mediation ...

China's wrongful detainment of foreign citizens, particularly corporate executives, in ...

Indonesia’s Free Nutritious Meals program was established to provide millions of children with nutritious meals. Unfortunately, children have experienced food poisoning from poorly prepared meals.

As the war in Ukraine grinds toward its fourth winter, a parallel conflict is being fought not in the trenches of the Donbas, but in Brussels. The weapon of choice is neither artillery nor drones, but ...

India’s 1975–1977 Emergency saw Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government suppressing free speech and arresting dissenters. My father was one victim, taken from my family for writing against the ...

Over ten years, the late anthropologist and political activist David Graeber and the archaeologist David Wengrow shared thoughts, explored ideas and conducted research on an impressive scale to ...

As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...

I am not a Trojan woman, and even less an author from ancient Greece. Yet these women’s tribulations in the aftermath of the defeat of Troy by the Greeks resonate with me today, 2,500 years later.

Israel has carried out a relentless and zealous military onslaught in Gaza that shows orchestrated mass inhumanity on a gargantuan scale. This campaign has killed tens of thousands of civilians, razed ...

Invoking Guy Debord’s theory of the spectacle, the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie anchors a meditation on how crime becomes media drama. Her case, amplified by celebrity ties and digital frenzy, shows ...

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The Shah led a famously dissolute life, visiting nightclubs across Europe and chasing beautiful actresses. One of them was Grace Kelly who became the Princess Grace of Monaco in 1956. The Shah spent ...