Mika speaks to Eve Jackson about hosting a concert with Kylie Minogue, Salma Hayek and Rufus Wainwright to raise money for those affected by the explosion in Beirut’s port that killed hundreds, injured thousands and...
Israel: What’s left of the utopian ideal of the kibbutz?
In 1909, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, fueled by Zionist and socialist ideas, founded the first kibbutz on the shores of Lake Tiberias in Palestine. Few would have imagined that 40 years later more than 70,000...
UN investigator on Belarus warns of ‘another Iron curtain’
A U.N. investigator warned of the possibility of “another Iron curtain” descending in Europe during an urgent debate on the human rights situation in Belarus in Geneva on Friday.
Warplane diplomacy: “Selling F35s to the Emiratis was always part of the deal”
“It’s arms for peace instead of land for peace,” says France 24 Jerusalem correspondent Irris Makler in The World This Week. While U.S. weighs sale of #F35 fighter jets to #UAE as part of deal with...
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies from pancreatic cancer, age 87
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a stalwart liberal on the US Supreme Court since 1993, died on Friday at age 87, the court said, giving President Donald Trump a chance to expand its conservative majority with a third...
Taiwan: China’s next target? | DW Analysis
Despite China’s increasingly aggressive behaviour both at home and abroad, Beijing’s open threat to take control of Taiwan by force is receiving comparatively little attention – leaving this flourishing liberal...
Winter care plan aims to protect vulnerable from coronavirus second wave in England – BBC News
The UK government has published details of its social care winter plan for England. All adult social care care providers will get free personal protective equipment, there’ll be more monitoring of the movement of...