Moscow has pressed NATO to forget about recruiting Ukraine and urged Ukraine to remain a neighbour Russia can trust not to take up arms against it by joining the Western alliance as many former members of the collapsed Soviet Union have done.Russia has good reasons to reject Ukra

At a time the entire world community should unite to provide aid to all victims of the massive February 6th earthquakes which devastated south-eastern Turkey and north-western Syria, politics is dividing East from West — once again.

Last week, both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports sharply critical of Israel's treatment of Palestinians living in the 1967 occupied territories.

Last Sunday, the BBC interviewed dissident Israeli journalist Gideon Levy on the Israeli attack on the West Bank city of Jenin, which killed nine Palestinians, and the Palestinian shooting deaths of seven Israeli settlers outside a synagogue.

Harvard University's Kennedy School last week reversed its decision to reject a fellowship for former Human Rights Watch (HRW) director Kenneth Roth who plans to write a book about his 30-year experience on the firing lines in global battles against discrimination and abuse.

The execution as a spy of former Iranian deputy defence minister Alireza Akbari who had British as well as Iranian citizenship has been condemned by Britain and France and international human rights organisations.

The Euro-centric Western prosecutors of the Ukraine war care little or nothing for the peoples of this region, Africa and Asia who have suffered collateral damage due to nearly a year of warfare.

While condemning the Taliban's latest misogynist policies, Western governments, aid agencies and media have ignored rulings and statements by eminent Islamic scholars and key organisations which should but do not influence Afghanistan's rulers.The Taliban's bans began as soon as

The New Year is certain to be dominated by destructive policies adopted in 2022 by global, regional, national and local authorities. On the planetary level, policy-makers have for decades failed to seriously confront global warming/climate change which is wreaking havoc arou