Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and French President Emmanuel Macron called for a “rapid end to the institutional political vacuum in Lebanon” on Friday. Lebanese lawmakers on Wednesday failed for a 12th time to elect a new president, as bitter divisions between the Iran-backed Hezbollah and its opponents …

L’OTAN entraîne et équipe ouvertement l’armée ukrainienne comme s’il s’agissait d’une bonne chose. Ce n’est pas le cas. Depuis près de 70 ans, toutes les armées entraînées par les États-Unis et l’OTAN se sont effondrées ou ont perdu la moitié de leur pays. Qu’est-ce qui peut faire penser que l’Ukraine …

Statements by officials in Belgrade, Pristina, and in the West are full of demands to calm the tension in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, even though political and security moves are being made on the ground that go beyond the wildest ideas of “masterminds” from the Surrealist Top List …

The surveillance scandal made headlines but did not hurt the Greek government at the ballot box. Experts say this reflects a general ambivalence about privacy violations in the digital era.Whatever information Thanasis Koukakis had been sharing with his readers, it was not quite enough. Someone wanted more. Twice in the …

The cancellation of a joint meeting between the two governments due to the tense situation in Kosovo’s Serb-majority north has further damaged already frayed relations between Albin Kurti and Edi Rama.The final steps to organize the ninth annual joint meeting between Kosovo’s and Albania’s governments were still being taken late …

Moscow and Kyiv have been trading barbs over who is to blame for the explosion on the Togliatti-Odesa ammonia pipeline on June 5, with the Russian side saying it was the work of Ukrainian “terrorists” and the Ukrainian side saying that it was the result of Russian shelling along the …

George Orwell, the author of “Animal Farm” and “1984”, was the first person to use the phrase “Cold War” in a 1945 newspaper article, written just after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He argued that “the surface of the earth is being parcelled off into three great empires, …

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a circular on 19 May 2023 notifying the withdrawal of INR 2000 denomination banknotes from circulation. This high-value banknote—introduced in November 2016 to meet the immediate currency requirement following the demonetisation—although being withdrawn from circulation, will continue to be treated as legal tender. …

​Carlos Garrido’s book The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism is undoubtedly an essential reading for any revolutionary American Marxist who is serious about building socialism. It is an open secret, and an embarrassment, among leftists in the west that they are politically impotent. Despite the fact that …

The visit will be the first in years during which Saudi Arabia and Iran were locked in a bitter conflict that has been felt across the region. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan will head to Tehran on Saturday, Iranian news outlets reported, in a historic visit after …