Morocco’s deadly quake, Libya’s deadly floods, 30 years since Oslo Accords – here’s the Middle East this week. In the ruins of the Moroccan town of Tnirte, a Spanish rescue team is sending its sniffer dogs home. The dogs, explains a team member, can only smell the living. North Africa is...
Saudi Arabia is considering a Chinese bid to build it a nuclear power plant, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, a decision that could derail US plans in the Kingdom, Reuters reports. State-owned China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) has bid to build a nuclear...
White House National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, has ruled out the possibility of an “imminent” normalisation of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Sullivan said peace “would be a big deal,” which would also be in the interest of...
Polls opened in Zimbabwe on Wednesday as President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeks a second and final term in a country with a history of violent and disputed votes. These are the second general elections since the ouster of longtime repressive ruler Robert Mugabe in a coup in 2017. There are 12...
Frankfurt (11/09 – 20) Two international human rights organizations have called on the Tajikistan government to immediately release jailed lawyer and human rights activist Manuchehr Kholiknazarov, as well as other activists and journalists. The International Partnership for Human Rights...
