Ramaphosa’s Washington DC visit, the US deal with the Houthis and its lifting sanctions against Syria suggests he is
The spokesman said new special envoy to Washington Mcebisi Jonas’s censure of the US president was not an impediment to mending fences
Brent Bozell is a long-time crusader against alleged liberal media bias and more recent Trump supporter
The US State Department has said it will seek changes after ambassador is kicked out
The presidency said the SA-US relationship was in flux and Ramaphosa would not rush to name a new ambassador
The president is taking a transactional approach to resolving a diplomatic tempest
The unbearable atrocities committed by the Assad regime have been exposed, and the opposition forces in the form of the Hayat Tahrir Al Shaam are seeking to rebuild a shattered country and people
With Israel evasive about its nuclear capabilities, and watchdogs silent, friction is mounting
Israel’s seemingly limitless brutality is rooted in ‘the logic of dehumanisation’
The secretary general of the United Nations is committed to peace, yet Israel in its war on Gaza and beyond chose to ban him
South Africa stands out as a country that strongly defends democracy
Early on Monday, relief workers located the missing helicopter, with state TV saying the president had died
Much is at stake for the wealthy, US-friendly Gulf states, whose expensive economic diversification plans rely on a peaceful environment for business and tourism
Iran’s mission to the United Nations warned Washington to keep out of its conflict with Israel, and said that ‘the matter can be deemed concluded’
Almost all of the drones and missiles were intercepted before they reached Israel, with help from the United States, Jordan and other allies
Tehran is the archetype of a place that is governed by the divine but defined by mortals
Pakistan said the ‘precision military strikes’ were against terrorist hideouts
The US Secretary of Defence ordered the activation of air defence systems and notified additional forces that they may be deployed soon
A wider Middle East war would hit an already fragile and fragmented economy.
We could yet witness the bloc emerge as a new power hub but only after a plethora of issues have been solved
The president tells the National Assembly he does not believe in sidelining nations, but rather to engage with other countries on human rights
It is a dishonest evasion to excuse the horrors of the Iranian regime on the grounds that some of its Western accusers have a tainted human rights record
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema says Cuba, Venezuela, Palestine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo must also be added to the Brics economic bloc
Iran, which was favoured by the Russians, is said to have also received the nod from the Brazilians, but various sanctions are likely to be its stumbling block
The Middle-Eastern power is waking up to the continent’s potential as a strategic partner for oil exploration, among other win-win ventures
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent shock waves around the world. As the International Crisis Group shows, several other crises loom
A senior official has linked the US approach toward Iran’s protests with Tehran’s foreign and security policies regarding Russia
Authoritarian systems reject challenges to themselves – yet just that is happening in Ukraine and Russia, China and Iran
Nomically, the left advocates pluralism and promotes difference, but only within a network of fixed, essentialized identities, and so permissiveness becomes prohibition.
The Three Lions played like a team unencumbered by public scrutiny. Iran did not have that luxury
England need to find their form and have the perfect group to do it in
Authoritarian would-be emperors such as Putin and Jinping and the US’s military-industrial complex erode the open society and its values of individual freedoms