Politics

Rob Menendez, a prominent US senator, and his wife Nadine Menendez were charged with corruption around the end of September this year. Menendez chaired the Foreign Relations committee. The indictment claims that Menendez and his wife were given gifts, cash, gold, fancy cars, and other bribes. A lengthy story about how Menendez was recruited by intelligence from a Middle Eastern nation and received gifts and cash through his wife, mostly in the form of gold bars, was published in the New York Times. Federal prosecutors in New York issued an indictment against…

Is a new African confederation possible between Ethiopia and Eritrea? This list does not exclude the international arena; hence, on the political map, one can observe at least a few “pairs” of states whose historically conditioned confrontation is taken for granted and continues to be a source of sporadic escalation or ongoing conflicts for many years. North and South Korea, Azerbaijan and Armenia, Turkey and Greece, Iran and Israel, India and Pakistan, China and Taiwan, and, until recently, Ethiopia and Eritrea are a few examples of these unforgiving opponents. After centuries of tense relations…

The military battle between the Palestinian Hamas and Israel remains a prominent matter of international concern. Despite the chaotic process of building conditional blocs of pro- and anti-Israeli forces, the armed conflict is yet to result in lengthy political discussions with an undetermined end. The West, led by the United States, the United Kingdom, and leading EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, and others), has unambiguously sided with Israel in this conflict, accusing Hamas of terrorism. Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak visited Israel to pledge their political and military support for the Jewish…