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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday managed to block a vote of no-confidence tabled by the opposition.

Only to the consumers of mainstream media fast food would it come as a surprise that Moscow has been warning on NATO expansion for well over a decade.

‘The Year the World Went Mad’ is a review of what happened. The story is one of the constant lurches from complacency to panic, optimism to pessimism. 

The US, burdened by de facto tax boycotts by the rich and corporations, is sinking in debt, the highest in our history.

Robert Bridge Judging by the way past US leaders have described their rivals, you’d think Washington has been fighting against the likes of Darth Vader. On March 8, 1983, then-President Ronald Reagan branded the Soviet Union, America’s…

As Donald Trump prepares to potentially run for his old office in 2024, it's worth looking at what his four years as president -- and his yearlong campaign to undermine the 2020 election results -- meant for the country. The answer:…

Anyone remember Islamic State? For a time, they took over large swathes of Syria and Iraq, and their other activities included chopping people’s heads off and committing acts of terror. They were, for a while, front page news…

On Wednesday, Boris Johnson’s government announced that plan B measures for England, which were put in place in December, will be scrapped. This includes mandates on face coverings, which will no longer be compulsory in indoor…

In the days when he combined the job of Tory MP with editing the Spectator magazine, Boris Johnson was forced to go to Liverpool to apologise following the publication of a gratuitously offensive editorial about the city.…

Over the last decade the way in which children are taught to read in primary schools in England has fundamentally changed. The teaching of reading is now dominated by phonics, or more accurately “synthetic phonics”, where the focus is…

Dignity-wise, I see the Johnson administration has moved to the stage of a man in a dirty tracksuit saying he’ll do a polygraph. Dominic Cummings’ insistence that the prime minister is lying, and that he’ll swear to it, makes…

When all else fails, send in the big guns. Or rather, pretend to. In the 1997 American satire Wag the Dog, a devious president invents a fictional war with Albania to distract voters from an embarrassing sex scandal. And by…

Jeremy Ben-Ami has been an opponent of pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran and a supporter of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement. That 2015 deal, with nuclear and missile restrictions that sunset between 2023 and 2031, gave Tehran…

One of the best Benefits of Fasting During Ramadan is the boosting of the immune system of the body, which is very beneficial during the COVID-19 pandemic as the virus directly affects the body’s immune response. Recently, studies have…

In some areas of the World, religion might be helping to fight against COVID-19, but it has also become the cause of the further spread of infection. The rapid spike in South Korea’s coronavirus cases was traced back to a Church meeting. In…

For fasting safely during COVID-19 crisis in Ramadan, a proper healthy food diet should be followed to have adequate energy levels throughout the day. Food products containing a high amount of macronutrients and micronutrients will keep the…

Social distancing measures are being observed around the world, which is greatly affecting how religious duties and festivals observed amid coronavirus pandemic. The Church meetings are also being postponed to help limit the spread of COVID…

According to the senior vice president for government and public affairs Lawrence Keane, gun shops become essential businesses to be opened during the pandemic along with food; water, shelter, and proper medical care system are essential…