Jüri Ratas's announcement of leaving the Centre Party, and his subsequent joining of the Isamaa party, came as no surprise given his limited options. Rather, it is a relief that Ratas has ended the ambiguous situation, abandoning his role...
Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar accidentally outed herself as an undeclared foreign agent while speaking with her co-ethnics about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ethiopia and Somaliland. The English translation can be watched here at the Somaliland Deputy Foreign...
Three US troops were killed and over 30 injured in a drone attack on one of its bases in West Asia, though some are debating the details. The US claims that the attack took place at Tower 22 in...
The Azerbaijani delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) announced that it’ll cease engagement with that body following the hostile resolution that it just passed. PACE criticized Azerbaijan’s domestic socio-political affairs and repeated groundless allegations...
What is Arab?
Understanding Arab culture and the values based on it are the crucial points for the proper understanding of the modern region of MENA (composed of the Middle East and North Africa) and its fundamental features. Nevertheless, it...
Many across the world are cheering the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ruling ordering Israel to prevent genocide, effectively address the adverse living conditions in Gaza without delay, and punish those who publicly call for genocide, among a few...
Several Western states suspended their funding of the United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA), which is responsible for the provision of humanitarian assistance to Gaza’s beleaguered 2 million residents, in response to unpublished Israeli accusations that some employees...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy declared that the opposition won’t obey the ruling Awami League (AL). In his words, “(Prime Minister) Sheikh Hasina only commands the votes of 7% of the country, and (BNP...
Pakistani Foreign Secretary Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi accused India late last week of orchestrating the killing of two Delhi-designated terrorists-separatists on its soil last year, which the latter dismissed as “false and malicious propaganda”. Whatever one may think about...
Asia and especially Japan are considered to be bastions of conservative-nationalism but the crowning of a Ukrainian model as “Miss Japan” last week shows that liberal-globalism has spread there too. What’s meant by these terms in this context is...
