In the face of mounting public opposition, the government of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to press ahead with a controversial effort to shift Japan’s decades-old pacifist defense policy.
The success of a high-level visit by Indian foreign minister Sushma Swaraj to Bangladesh this week marks a crucial milestone in relations between the two states and in the Modi government’s broader campaign for regional cohesion.
This year’s World Cup is not just about soccer – at least not as far as the Middle East and North Africa is concerned.
According to Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the Ebola epidemic in western Africa is “out of control” and can only be prevented from spiraling further across the region if political and religious figures along with aid agencies immediately improve their response to the crisis.
The former military chief said he would not “interfere” with the country’s judiciary following calls for the leader to intervene in order to secure the journalists’ release.
In the strongest indication thus far that Kurdistan may seek full independence, Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said on Monday that the time had come for Kurds to decide their own fate.
The members the Pacific Alliance—a trade bloc of Latin America’s most dynamic economies—are meeting in a summit that will set the stage for the next phase of the Alliance’s expansion.
As Washington continues to weigh its response to the unfolding militant advance in Iraq, the emerging possibility of greater U.S. cooperation with Tehran is adding to the political quandary faced by the Obama administration.
World cup enthusiasm is likely to be tempered by the growing realization that politics, political interference, and whimsical micro-management by vain club owners has stymied performance by potential regional powerhouses.
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Gulf states are rallying behind Qatar as the controversy over its successful bid for the 2022 World Cup continues to grow with a new report on Sunday alleging that FIFA awarded the tournament to the Gulf kingdom despite an internal briefing showing that it was at “high risk” of a terrorist attack.
