Zaynab Al Khawaja, Newlines
My father was arrested and tortured during the Arab Spring. My son has never known him beyond bars
A Schipani & D Pilling, FT
At a makeshift shelter in a school in Mekelle, capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region, Gezae Wolderaphael, an aquiline-featured young sesame farmer, shows what he says are rifle butt and knife wounds on his face and shoulder. The injuries, he says, were inflicted by members of an assortment of forces who surrounded him in the western Tigrayan town of Mai Kadra last November after Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia's prime minister, ordered federal troops to take control of the region.
Richard Hanania, RealClearWorld
In March, a ship got stuck in the Suez Canal. After six days, it was finally freed, thanks to the efforts of tugboat crews combined with shifting tides.
Claus Hecking, Der Spiegel
Germany's vaccination campaign is running sluggishly, but that's about to change quickly. The situation could ease considerably -- and that well before the end of the summer, with vaccine deliveries set to increase dramatically in the coming weeks.
William Minter & Elizabeth Schmidt, Resp. St.
On March 10, the United States formally designated the insurgent group in northern Mozambique as a foreign terrorist organization. Although the group is locally referred to as al-Shabaab (meaning "the youth," with no relationship to the organization by that name in Somalia), the U.S. State Department calls it ISIS-Mozambique.
Nigel Gould-Davies, Moscow Times
The weaknesses and contradictions within the EU have emboldened Russia in its policy regarding Ukraine.
Richard Bush, NPR
A growing chorus of officials and experts in the United States has been raising alarm about the risk of a Chinese attack against Taiwan. Adm. Philip S. Davidson, the United States Indo-Pacific commander, recently handicapped the threat of a Chinese assault on Taiwan as "manifest during this decade, in fact, in the next six years." China is preparing to invade and unify Taiwan by force, the thinking goes, as soon as it gains the capabilities to do so. Such doomsday predictions deserve interrogation. Читать дальше...
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As Brazil spirals deeper into the epidemiological crisis caused by COVID-19, a new political dilemma has also arisen in the South American nation.
Steven Cook, Foreign Policy
It's been a difficult and dizzying few months for Turkey—which is just the way the president likes it.
Mallory Pickett, New Yorker
When the coronavirus arrived, the country decided not to implement lockdowns or recommend masks. How has it fared?
Manuel Brug, Worldcrunch
Fine, we'll admit it: Mozart was a pig!
It's a fact, for example, that Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756-1791), better known as Wolfgang Amadeus, enjoyed scatological humor, which came through especially strongly in the 10 surviving letters to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, known as Bäsle, meaning "little cousin."
Alex Lo, SCMP
Bonnie Kristian, 1945
Perhaps it's unsurprising: One does not particularly care to celebrate the launch of our country's second-longest war, which has spilled so much blood and treasure and accomplished so little good.
