What’s at stake in Iraq’s elections on 10 October? These elections are the first test of Iraq’s political institutions since countrywide protests paralysed the country in 2019-2020. Those protests forced the government elected in 2018 to step down and pass a new elections law, which brought the polls originally planned …

The Democrats have proposed paying for part of President Biden’s Build Back Better plan with $500 billion in savings on what the government will pay prescription drug companies through Medicare and other public programs over the next decade. The country currently pays the pharmaceutical industry over $500 billion annually for …

The Pandora Papers, a massive expose about the secret shell games and tax avoidance schemes of the world’s ultra-wealthy, has just hit headlines around the globe. See initial coverage here in The Washington Post and The Guardian. This colossal undertaking involved 600 journalists from 117 countries and was coordinated by …

Three years ago, on 2 October 2018, a team of Saudi officials murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The purpose of the killing was to silence Khashoggi and to frighten critics of the Saudi regime by showing that it would pursue and punish them as though …

While on the face of it, China’s acquisitions of ports looks like mere commercial transactions based on an economically driven agenda — the rhetoric China is employing — several analysts have pointed out that geopolitical concerns seem to be what are actually driving China’s port investments. “A deliberate military and …

A la hora de señalar a los principales productores de gas del mundo de inmediato se nombran los yacimientos de los que Rusia dispone o los existentes en el norte de África, especialmente en territorio argelino. Suele así olvidarse que existe otro actor de gran peso en este mercado al …

Darf Marokko Verträge über die Westsahara schließen? Das Gericht der Europäischen Union verneint das. Brüssel und Rabat müssen umdenken. Jetzt steht es einmal mehr hochrichterlich fest. Die Westsahara ist nicht Marokko, auch wenn das nordafrikanische Königreich die ehemalige spanische Kolonie seit Mitte der 1970er Jahre besetzt hält. Das entschied am …

Политолог Дмитрий Родионов — о том, для чего Запад затеял вторую революцию в Грузии, поручив это Мадлен Олбрайт, и как возвращение Саакашвили может спровоцировать толпу на беспорядки. Бывший президент Грузии, а ныне гражданин Украины Михаил Саакашвили, вернувшийся в страну после восьми лет эмиграции, задержан правоохранителями, его поместили в пенитенциарное учреждение, …

A Hamas delegation will reportedly discuss a possible prisoner exchange deal, among other issues, during a visit in Egypt this week. A Hamas delegation headed by the movement’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh, visited Egypt on Sunday to discuss a number of issues, with the movement announcing the visit the night before. …

Jordan’s King Abdullah, a close ally of the United States, was alleged to have used offshore accounts to spend more than $100 million on luxury homes in the United Kingdom and the United States. A massive leak of financial documents was published by several major news organizations on Sunday that …