As Trump chose the path of barbarism, threatening to annihilate the Islamic Republic and dismantling international institutions, Lula took the UN pulpit to defend another path: diplomacy, dialogue and civilisation, and questioned a foundational idea of International Relations. The main international politics and geopolitical messages in Lula’s UN General Assembly …

Turkey and Hezbollah are quietly expanding channels of communication as Ankara seeks to manage the group and stop it from playing any destabilising role in Syria, while also trying to deter what it sees as growing Israeli threats in the region, according to analysts. The contacts come as tensions between …

With olive harvest season approaching in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian farmers are preparing for a crop that has long been far more than an agricultural event. For generations, families have gathered in their fields during the harvest, with men, women and children picking olives together before taking them to …