Oct 09, 2023 12:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The parallels were striking and surely not coincidental. Exactly 50 years and a day after being taken completely off guard by a coordinated military attack by its neighbors Egypt and Syria Israel was again caught by...
After a shocking Hamas assault on Israel, both sides brace for the devastating fall-out
Oct 09, 2023 03:44 am UTC| Insights & Views
Almost 50 years ago to the day, Israel failed to anticipate the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur war a shock attack on its borders by a coalition of Arab states. Now, it appears the countrys intelligence apparatuses...
The Israel-Hamas war: No matter who loses, Iran wins
Oct 09, 2023 03:43 am UTC| Insights & Views
There will be only one winner in the war that has broken out between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. And it is neither Israel nor Hamas. In an operation coined the Al-Aqsa Storm, Hamas, whose formal...
Oct 05, 2023 03:34 am UTC| Politics Insights & Views
Nearly 30 years after the infamous Battle of Mogadishu, the U.S. military is still conducting operations in Somalia. Popularized in the U.S. by the 2001 film Black Hawk Down, the Battle of Mogadishu occurred on Oct. 3,...
Ukraine war: Russian shelling is taking a deadly toll on urban bats
Oct 02, 2023 06:25 am UTC| Politics
Russias invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has given rise to a humanitarian crisis. More than 6.2 million people have fled Ukraine as a result of heavy shelling and fighting, and an additional 5.1 million people have...
Ukraine war: Slovakia may be about to elect a government which plans to halt aid to Kyiv
Sep 29, 2023 09:15 am UTC| Politics
Slovakians head to the polls on September 30 to elect a new parliament. The result will not only have a huge impact on the domestic affairs of this small central European state but also, beyond its borders, on the balance...
Ukraine recap: Ukraine and allies maintain optimism despite slow progress on the battlefield
Sep 29, 2023 08:51 am UTC| Politics
At a press conference after talks with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, this afternoon, Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg sounded like a man determined to take a glass half full attitude when he said that...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects