European leaders sought influence in the Middle East as tensions rose over Gaza and pressure mounted for a two-state solution. France, the UK and Portugal recognized Palestine, but US mediation ...

Radical politics do not simply come out of nowhere. Numerous critical issues in recent years have generated a great deal of fear and anger around the world, with the richest and most egalitarian ...

The Shah led a famously dissolute life, visiting nightclubs across Europe and chasing beautiful actresses. One of them was Grace Kelly who became the Princess Grace of Monaco in 1956. The Shah spent ...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) can supposedly solve any grammatical query for us. If it can do that, does it make learning grammar obsolete? What should English instructors teach their students, then?

Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat mayoral candidate for New York, has caught the fancy of many around the world. Yet when we take a closer look at him, the 33-year-old does not appear so wonderful. If ...

Similar to Jews and Palestinians, Kurds have faced oppression, displacement, and a long struggle for statehood. Although most Kurds are Muslim, their views on the Israel-Palestine conflict vary. Some ...

As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...

There has been an association between the occult, paganism and the extreme right ever since the evolution of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party from the Thule Society. In the last few years, ...

Zou Jiayi’s appointment as president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) underscores the Bank’s deep political alignment with the Chinese Communist Party, challenging its claim to ...

Imagine a distant past, thousands of years ago, when ancient tribes roamed the vast lands of Eurasia. Among these tribes were the enigmatic Proto-Indo-Europeans, whose language, now known as ...

The AI industry faces bottlenecks in chip production and financing as models grow exponentially larger. Semiconductor companies and AI startups confront financial and technical challenges that could ...