In the absence of a coordinated vaccine roll-out, much of the distribution of these vaccines has occurred on the black market.

2020 was the deadliest year along the Line of Control in Kashmir since the 2003 ceasefire.

Decisions are taken without diplomacy, without nuance. The international community imposes itself on Haiti.

When it comes to German politics, it remains to be seen who is the wolf in sheep's clothing.

Connections aren’t easy to draw between dark chocolate and cow urine, but they are both recommended as Covid-19 cures by top leaders of India’s ruling party as the country flails amidst a catastrophic second wave.

It's not a totally new thing to Gazans. I'm not saying that Gazans got used to this. This time, it was--or it is still--harsh and intense.

Ultimately, Facebook is a company. Its goal is not to fix democracy.

The lack of clear evidence of the efficacy of “fake news” regulations in Singapore hasn’t stopped other governments from drafting copycat laws.

As the country chooses among potential allies, these suitors have been particularly absent in offering support or vaccines.

As France debates a global security law that would enhance police power from local to national levels, Zineb Redouane’s fate has come to symbolize the problem of police impunity in an increasingly militarized country. In Marseille, one of the poorest cities in France, with a large immigrant population, Redouane’s case has become a rallying cry.

Many Taiwanese love both Tsai, under whom Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, and Trump, who has packed American courts with arch-conservatives.

Germans overwhelmingly disapproved of Trump during his tenure, and his four years in the White House have tested the true depth German goodwill for the United States.

In April 2019, Prabowo lost the election with almost 20 million fewer votes than his opponent. Nonetheless, he gave a so-called victory speech in front of his supporters, most of them conservative Muslims. He wasn’t satisfied with claiming victory; he also circulated a rumor about the fraud in the polling station and suspected that there was an effort to frame that he lost the election.

Given our history of emigration, it has been difficult for many people in Ireland to understand how Irish Americans can support Trump’s extreme policies that have separated families, vilified immigrants and threatened undocumented Irish people in the US.

The fact that it took a U.S. Secretary of State 45 years to visit Suriname, which gained independence in 1975, was disappointing to many Surinamese. Pompeo’s rant about Chinese influence has only further alienated them, as many people are grateful for the Chinese investments.

The Zelensky administration has failed to make meaningful strides at tackling corruption; in fact, earlier this year the SoP-controlled parliament dismissed a widely respected Prosecutor General known for tackling graft inside his agency. And while he succeeded in completing several rounds of prisoner exchange with Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine, Zelensky has made no other significant diplomatic breakthrough. Crimea remains firmly in Russia’s grasp.

Yesterday as polling stations opened in Tanzania, the Internet was shut down—blocking communication via email, text and social media--and the reality of that has made it hard to file this article. To a certain extent, I blame myself. I gambled on the optimism with which we conduct our public affairs. I was wrong.

Lack of hot water, lack of real communication with citizens, abuse of power, and corruption can change mayors. Last year, aging infrastructure meant that the municipal provider was losing 2000 tons of hot water per hour, or about 170.000 euros ($199,161.67) per day. As a Romanian joke says: sometimes hot water comes; but it’s cold.

Two months since the beginning of immense political protests, a political crisis of a scale not seen since it gained independence in 1991, the Belarusian government and protesters have reached a stalemate.