Israeli PM says ‘we will restore security’ to border area with Lebanon amid cross-border attacks with Hezbollah.

• June 5, 2024

Antonio Guterres urges a 30 percent cut in global fossil fuel production and use by 2030 amid record high temperatures.

• June 5, 2024

Marc Lamont Hill discusses the rise of far-right parties in Europe and the upcoming EU elections.

• June 3, 2024

Tomasdottir wins 34.6 percent of the votes to become the Nordic country’s second female president.

• June 3, 2024

Law obliges organisations getting more than 20 percent of funding from overseas to register as ‘agents of foreign influence’.

• June 3, 2024

Farage, who previously said he would not stand in the election, says he will lead the anti-immigration Reform UK party.

• June 3, 2024

On May 29, at the UN headquarters in New York, during the 40th session of the states parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), elections were held for nine members of the Human Rights Committee (HRC) for the 2025-2028 term.

Representatives from 16 states, including Burundi, Georgia, Egypt, India, Spain, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Lithuania, Morocco, Paraguay, the Republic of Korea, North Macedonia, Togo, Uzbekistan, Croatia, Ethiopia, and South Africa, competed for the nine seats in the HRC. READ MORE

• June 3, 2024

By Vasif HUSEYNOV, PhD, Head of Department, AIR Center, Adjunct Lecturer, ADA and Khazar Universities, Baku

There is a growing consensus among some analysts that Western policies towards Russia and China have been a big disaster. Instead of preventing the creation of the Sino-Russo alliance, the West has virtually pushed Russia into the arms of China. The opposite was expected from the United States by many scholars and veteran diplomats, including Henry Kissinger. The United States will have to reach an understanding with China on a new global order to ensure stability, or the world will face a dangerous period like the one which preceded World War One, he said in 2021, two years before he passed away. Against the backdrop of the latest visit of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to China, which is reported to be the 40th meeting between the leaders of the two countries over the past 10 years, there is enough ground to argue that Washington failed to “reach an understanding with Beijing on a new global order. READ MORE

• May 31, 2024