An announcement by Home Secretary Priti Patel that she will put to Parliament that the political wing of Hamas be proscribed a terrorist group has sparked outrage among Palestinians, and received great public support from Israelis. Hamas is a Palestinian political party that currently governs the besieged Gaza Strip. Its …
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According to the expert, the current crisis comes as a result of an interconnected and highly complex supply chain that has been built over the past two decades and is highly reliable on imports. “If you have a bottleneck anywhere in that process, it breaks down,” Denninger said. For more …
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A new spike in the trade of phony Covid-19 papers has been observed on the Dark Web, Kaspersky Lab’s security researcher Dmitry Galov told RT. The new peak was apparently triggered by the people’s “will to travel more freely, because countries are currently implementing different IT services that are info-checking …
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Awesome. There’s a name for how millions of people are feeling right now. And, for once, it’s a moniker that actually describes perfectly what it’s all about: cave syndrome. Are you hanging onto your masks even if you don’t have to? Are you sitting outside in the beer garden even …
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How do you solve the controversy over sports competitions between female and transgender athletes? When the two compete in the same events, the latter can ruin things for the former. Young girls are deprived of the medals, honors, and scholarships they would otherwise have earned. But should transgender athletes be banned …
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The US’ withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years preceded a lightning advance by Taliban militants. Seizing province after province and city after city in recent days – often without firing a shot as the US-funded Afghan National Army surrendered – Taliban forces arrived in the capital city Kabul early on …
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Sitting on the border between Greek and Turkish-held Cyprus, Varosha has remained abandoned since Turkish forces invaded the island in 1974 to stave off a Greek Cypriot coup. Though inside Turkish territory on the island, Varosha has served as a buffer between that territory and the Greek sector of the …
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“If we want to reduce violent crime, if we want to reduce the number of people in our jails, the answer is to stop building more of them,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Thursday at a press conference in New York. The congresswoman’s comments came amid surging violent crime in many of …
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The US Senate confirmation hearings for President Joe Biden’s nominee for the position of deputy secretary of state, Wendy Sherman, offer interesting insights into the quandary facing the Biden administration in fulfilling a campaign pledge to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, better known as the Iran nuclear …
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“America is back. America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy.” With these resounding words as his starting point, President Joe Biden gave his first major foreign policy address, symbolically delivered at the State Department headquarters, with Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in attendance. His …
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