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What is Scotland voting on in the general election?
BBC via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe general election has seen political parties clash over a number of issues, from taxes to health and immigration to education. 1979 – a referendum is...
How many people cross the Channel in small boats and how many claim asylum in the UK?
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPrime Minister Rishi Sunak says if he wins the general election, the first flights will leave for...
Turkey: Threats And Consequences
Strategy Page· 2 days agoJanuary 25, 2023: President Erdogan recently indicated he wants Turkey to hold its 2023 national elections on May 14. For Erdogan May 14 has historical significance that he ...
‘Teflon Mark’ Rutte set to bring consensus-building skills from Dutch politics as next NATO chief
FOX21 Colorado Springs· 3 days agoTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Over the course of more than a dozen years at the top of Dutch...
Iraq: Bad Habits
Strategy Page· 5 days agoSeptember 8, 2020: The new prime minister (Mustafa al Kadhimi) is decidedly hostile to Iran. Such a meeting was important because Kadhimi is the first post-Saddam (2003) prime minister that ...
Libya: No Compromise, No Surrender
Strategy Page· 3 days agoArmy) and the GNA (UN backed but largely powerless Government of National Accord) does appear to be ending because even if the GNA holds onto Tripoli, the LNA has the rest of the country, including ...
Israel: More Fatal Distractions
Strategy Page· 1 day agoJune 7, 2022: Israel continues to block the sale or donation of any Israeli weapons to Ukraine by NATO countries that have bought or built under license Israeli weapons. Ukraine has been particularly ...
Israel: Everyone Says One Thing And Does Another
Strategy Page· 7 days agoDecember 27, 2017: While ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) has been nearly wiped out in Syria and Iraq, never really got started in Israeli controlled areas (including the West Bank ...
Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
World Socialist Web Site· 3 days agoThe World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature. In recent weeks, Italian workers have held major strikes and protests against a wave of ...
Masked men who abused refugees likely worked ‘in concert’ with Greece
Al Jazeera· 6 days agoLast summer, a shocking video of asylum seekers cable-tied and blindfolded in the back of a van on a Greek holiday island went viral online. At the time, the veracity of the video was questioned ...