BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) – Lebanon went to the polls on Sunday for the first time since repeated crises pushed it to the verge of failure, with the governing class expected to easily survive popular outrage. The parliamentary election will be the first litmus test for opposition movements generated by aRead More →

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AFP) – According to local media on Friday, a worker injured in an explosion at a chemical business in Slovenia has died from his injuries, increasing the total number of individuals killed in the tragedy to six. A cistern erupted at a resin factory owned by the chemicalsRead More →

Ukraine reported driving back Russian soldiers in a counterattack on Wednesday (May 11), perhaps signalling a shift in the war’s momentum and shutting down gas shipments via Russian-held territory, heightening the spectre of an energy crisis in Europe. The general command of Ukraine’s armed forces said that Pytomnyk, a villageRead More →

As the trial of a former Iranian official suspected of war crimes in Sweden came to a close on Wednesday, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency stated that a Swedish-Iranian national sentenced to death in Iran on charges of spying for Israel will be executed by May 21. Ahmadreza Djalali, aRead More →

The difficulties at the US-Mexico border are severe, with catastrophic ramifications. The border has become a free for all as a result of the Department of Homeland Security’s reluctance to enforce US immigration rules. Unfortunately, this means that Border Patrol agents are still overburdened. If the Biden administration has itsRead More →

Indonesia defied US resistance and invited Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, to the G20 conference in November, its leader stated on Friday. Jakarta, which has the G20 presidency this year, has under intense pressure from the West, particularly by the United States, to excludeRead More →