Tensions have been operating excessive in Ethiopia for a while, however current revelations counsel Washington and its allies have determined a altering of the political guard is so as in Addis Ababa. ...

An unconvincing try to clarify the disappearance of tennis participant Peng Shuai highlights how poor China is at communications. This failing explains why the West is continually in a position to set a dangerous narrative about Beijing. ...

The European Union finds itself in one other tight spot after Italy voted down an anti-homophobia invoice. Will it's ready to sanction Rome in the identical approach it did Poland and Hungary for his or her stance on LGBT points? ...

South African star Quinton de Kock defied a request from his nation’s cricket authorities and pulled out of his staff’s T20 World Cup match with the West Indies on Tuesday after refusing to take a knee. ...

The US has voiced "robust" opposition towards the Israeli authorities's push to increase settlements within the occupied Palestinian territories, as Tel Aviv positioned tender for 1,300 new properties and is anticipated to greenlight an additional three,000. ...

An enormous Pacific storm is poised to unleash situations often known as an “atmospheric river”, with torrential rains and robust winds placing about 10 million individuals prone to flash floods in components of northern California this weekend. The incoming tempest has raised fears of mudslides, particularly in areas charred throughout ...

Twenty years in the past, President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart, Invoice Clinton, mentioned Russia probably becoming a member of NATO. Now, this week, Moscow has introduced it's severing its final remaining diplomatic ties with the bloc. ...

Evaluation posted in two influential American publications argues that China is on the wane, attributable to its financial system slowing down and it going through stress from the West. That’s fallacious nonsense rooted in ideological bias and worry. ...

A rising row between Belarus and the EU over a pointy spike in asylum seekers trying to cross into the bloc from the Japanese European nation will solely worsen so long as sanctions are in place, the nation’s president has mentioned. ...

The Taliban are usually not liberals. This a lot ought to be apparent to anybody with a room-temperature IQ however, for some motive, the ‘worldwide neighborhood’ thinks it may possibly scold hardcore Islamists into behaving like Western politicians. ...