In addition, the Israeli killing of Palestinians seeking food aid may further complicate the ceasefire negotiations. Hamas said the incident could undermine talks aimed at securing a ceasefire and releasing Israeli hostages. U.S. President Joe Biden has acknowledged that the negotiations would be compl...
The proposed agreement, which included the exchange of prisoners and the delivery of humanitarian aid, has yet to see progress. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Monday that Israel will continue the attacks in Gaza until "a total victory" over Hamas. In a Monday airstrike ...
It isn’t enough for the government just to talk about the ‘botched Brexit deal’ delivered by the Tories. Brexit has to be acknowledged as a historic strategic error, and for that to be the consensus view of all but a fringe minority, before any real change will become possible. The ...
François Bayrou, France’s fourth prime minister in a year, …acknowledged “all kinds of difficulties”: a debt mountain, political strife and, alarmingly, “the splintering of society itself.”…Mr. Bayrou is not wrong to talk of dangers. In France, malaise is all around: In one recent...
Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced modest new measures to slow the spread of the disease on Sunday, including closing bars after 1 a.m. and banning gatherings of more than 50 people. But he said that only renewed public adherence to social distancing rules could change the path of the outbr...
In this context, the UK government is widely acknowledged to have performed both extremely badly on some aspects of pandemic management and extremely well on other aspects, thereby creating two strong but opposing performance signals. This allows us to prime respondents to focus on a positive or ...
I am talking about the language used. You said Tamil Tiger Terrorists. That mindset will never advance any kind of reconciliation in this country”. Sri Lanka’s economic and political crises seized headlines around the world. Gota acknowledged that he made mistakes that led to the country...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Sunday called the possible penalty "the height of absurdity; a moral low." Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz said it would set a "dangerous precedent." Both Gantz and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant raised the matter in phone calls wi...
” On 14 September, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong of the Vietnamese government sent a diplomatic note to Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council of China, solemnly stating that “the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam recognizes and supports the declaration of the government of ...
because the politicians and officials both like the system Bhutto (Late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto) put in place. It suits them both very well, because it gave them lots of lucrative state-sponsored jobs in industry and banking to take for themselves or distribute to their relatives and...