In 1772, sailing to the far south, Captain James Cook deflated the prevailing myth about Antarctica being a temperate land, fertile and populated. Although he never landed on the continent, he saw the vast icebergs, the frozen sea and the “worst weather anywhere in the world

An interesting question is what would happen to American foreign policy if President Barack Obama were allowed to have another four-year term in office?It would be a less interventionist presidency than what it is about to become. This is not to say that I think the way Obam

Many African leaders have been angry for a number of years because the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the affiliated Rwanda and Sierra Leone war crimes courts appear to have focused exclusively on African war criminals — in Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo, Ivory Coas

I have a fantasy. Donald Trump wins.

Africa up or down?

The many world leaders who gathered in Jerusalem last week for the funeral of Shimon Peres, the former president of Israel, are safely ensconced back home. They will not bother much to think about Israel again until the next Palestinian uprising.

The last war in the Western hemisphere came to an end with the recent signing of the formal peace treaty between Colombia and the FARC rebels, a conflict that has raged on and off for 50 years.Fortunately, the cities have been spared overt destruction — it was the army and indivi

Russia recently announced that it has decided to go where angels fear to tread: into the whirlpool of negotiations between Palestine and Israel.Long a preserve of the Americans and the French, the attempt to bring peace between the two and to make a final settlement on boundaries

The French ambassador to the US from 1902 to 1924, Jean-Jules Jusserand, observed that distant powers could not easily threaten the US because “on the north, she has a weak neighbour; on the south, another weak neighbour; on the east fish and on the west, fish”.The coming of the