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When Henrietta Rushwaya was arrested at Robert Mugabe International Airport in October for alleged gold smuggling, the news was shocking but not the purported...

Last year I had the opportunity to listen to the prominent Indian intellectual and author, Anand Teltumbde, speak at an academic conference in Delhi. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/12/18/academic-freedom-is-under-attack-in-modis-india

A Turkish philanthropist businessman and human rights defender denied accusations of espionage and attempting to overthrow the government in connection with a failed coup...

https://www.thescienceofwheremagazine.it/2020/12/12/strategic-perspectives-for-a-new-middle-east/

A mysterious North Korean facility may be producing components for building nuclear bombs, a new report suggests, offering clues to understanding the site near...

Qatar celebrates its National Day on Friday amid coronavirus-related restrictions and a continuing diplomatic spat with neighbouring countries that seems to be easing. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/18/qatar-celebrates-national-day-2020-amid-covid-pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic, which claimed more than a million lives and battered the global economy in just a few months, also provided us with...

The coronavirus has not yet decimated refugee camps or killed displaced people in significant numbers, as I and many others feared in March. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/12/18/what-we-got-wrong-about-covid-19-and-refugees

Today is the tenth anniversary of the Tunisian uprising which toppled the authoritarian regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and marked the start...