Taliban – China’s Money Making Machine
China’s recent cozying up with the Taliban have had come with some anticipation of China’s strategic move in the region. China has been eyeing a position of strategic depth for quite some time in...
Author: Web Team
In Afghanistan’s Panjshir, anti-Taliban forces fight on
The Taliban on Wednesday called on fighters in the holdout bastion of the Panjshir Valley to lay down their arms, as the resistance movement said it had repulsed heavy attacks. The rugged mountain valley...
A third of global tree species threatened with extinction
Around a third of all the world’s tree species are threatened with extinction, according to a global index published Wednesday, warning that climate change could tip some forests into ecosystem collapse. Land clearance for...
In ‘pain and anger’, Pentagon looks to lessons of 20-year war
US defense chiefs said they felt pain and anger Wednesday and would humbly study the lessons of the Afghan war after leaving the country under control of the Taliban, whom they fought for 20...
Ukraine’s Zelensky seeks Biden’s support on NATO
President Joe Biden assured Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday that the United States opposes “Russian aggression” but he showed no sign of moving on requests to open NATO to the eastern European country....
Distrust remains as some women return to work under Taliban
Under their previous reign, they shocked the world by brutally oppressing women and girls. Now, back in power 20 years after a US invasion ousted them, the Taliban have promised a softer brand of...
Floods threaten hundreds of thousands in northeast India
Flood waters rose Monday across northeastern India, where hundreds of thousands of people are stranded on the roofs of their homes or have fled to higher ground as more torrential rain fell. Incessant downpours...
Ethiopia’s economy battered by Tigray war
Ethiopia’s 10-month war has come at a huge human cost, with thousands killed, millions displaced and many in desperate need of assistance. But that’s not the only damage being done to Africa’s second most...
Gender and migration
“When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky”. – NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwean Author) Migration has always been considered great propulsion towards the evolution and...
Indigenous protest as Brazil high court hears land case
Thousands of indigenous protesters marched in the Brazilian capital Wednesday, bearing bows and arrows and traditional headdresses, as the Supreme Court prepared to take up a case that could eliminate reservations on their ancestral...
