Reimpose Sanctions, Says Peace Foundation

Arif Naqvi, Founder and Group Chief Executive of The Abraaj Group, has received the 2013 Oslo Business for Peace Award at a ceremony in the Oslo City Hall, Norway. Mr Naqvi is the first Chief Executive from the United Arab Emirates and from within ...

The joint effort recently announced by Moscow and Washington to bring the government and insurgents to an international conference in line with the Geneva Communiqué is a welcoming development, but some major issues have already come to the fore.

NEW YORK For the richest American family of their era, the goal was fittingly ambitious: "To promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." With that mission, underwritten by the vast wealth of John D. Rockefeller Sr., the Rockefeller ...

After two World Wars, the Schuman Declaration sought to put an end to political tension and created the foundations for the European Union. Fast-forward 63 years later and the growing hostility between EU members is threatening to unravel the ...

A Guatemalan court found former dictator and US Cold War ally, Efrain Rios Montt, guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 80 years in prison. His intelligence chief, Jose Mauricio Rodriguez Sanchez, was found not guilty ...

KILL him, spare him not; Persecute him; Arrest and throw him into the gulag. These and other such statements are the endless expressions and outpourings against the person of Kingsley Kuku, regarding a statement he recently made in the United ...

Conceiving of the Kurdish issue in political terms - rather than security ones - represents the third and final phase of de-securitisation politics in Turkey, which is an indication of the growing normalisation of the country. Since the beginning of ...

"If you will it, it is no dream," wrote Theodor Herzl, a Vienna journalist and the founder of Zionism, in 1902. Less than 50 years later, his vision became a reality: Israel was declared an independent state. The 14th of May 1948 was a day that ...

Gaborone - The brisk morning air is rich with the sweet and heady aroma of wild thyme bushes which green vast areas of golden bushveld. In water channels which spread like arteries through the lush vegetation, there's action aplenty above and below ...