Migrants on the German military ship Rhein. Photograph: Alfonso Di Vincenzo/Kontrolab/LightRocket via Getty Images ‘Go Back to Where you Came From’ analyses the problem well but has few solutions As the Syrian refugee crisis spread across Europe in autumn 2015 … Read More
SONOMA, Calif. — The death toll rose to 23 Wednesday and more than 3,500 homes and businesses have been destroyed across Northern California’s wine country as almost two dozen wildfires continued their assault on the region for a fourth day Wednesday. The … Read More
US President Donald Trump. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images ISRAEL is out on a limb, as the international community waits for Donald Trump’s decision, expected any day, on the fate of the Iranian nuclear deal. Jerusalem has been trying hard to … Read More
Natacha Pisarenko / Associated Press A family sleeps in a shelter after having been evacuated from their apartment in a large complex in Mexico City’s Tlalpan neighborhood.Displaced residents gathered outside the vacant apartment complex, awaiting a chance to enter their … Read More
President Trump is expected to announce his decision on the fate of the Iran nuclear deal in a speech on Friday, according to Republican lawmakers briefed by the administration. White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster was on Capitol Hill … Read More
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a launching drill in a photo taken by state media. (STR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) Now on offer at University of Hawaii, Nuclear War 101: How to Start Worrying and Fear the Bomb. Students at the … Read More
Theresa May has refused to say she would back Brexit if the referendum on quitting the European Union was held now. In a move likely to anger Tory Brexiteers, the Prime Minister, who backed Remain, repeatedly sidestepped questions over which … Read More
Results from the two small central European nations will be illustrative of the direction in which central European politics is headed today. Elections, Europe and Eurasia The coming two weekends will bring elections in Austria and the Czech Republic. The stakes … Read More
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today warned his US counterpart Rex Tillerson that Washington risks sparking an unacceptable escalation in tensions with North Korea. In a phone call with US Secretary of State Tillerson, Lavrov “stressed the unacceptability of an … Read More