Ukrainians cheer the new year as Russian drones are blasted from the skies

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reuters By Gleb Garanich and Herbert Villarraga Ukrainians cheered from their balconies while their air defences blasted Russian missiles and drones out of the sky in the first hours of 2023, as →

Ronaldo’s move to Saudi Arabia: A game of one-upmanship

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modern diplomacy By Dr. James M. Dorsey One-upmanship in Middle Eastern sports just wretched up a notch as superstar Cristiano Ronaldo joins state-owned Saudi football club Al Nassr FC for reportedly →

Lula sworn in as president of divided Brazil amid tight security

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al jazeera Leftist leader Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva has pledged to “rebuild” Brazil “with the people” as he was sworn in as the new president of thefiercely polarised country for a historic third →

Several dead and wounded in blast outside Kabul military airport

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al jazeera An explosion outside the military airport in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, has caused multiple casualties, according to a Taliban official. Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Nafi Takor →

What’s driving Jordan’s fuel protests?

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asia times by Suha Ma’ayeh Recent protests in Jordan over rising fuel prices and calls for government intervention have been met with an all too familiar response: Rather than addressing underlying →

America Must Understand the Taliban to Change It

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national interest by Qamar-ul Huda While in Kabul recently, I sipped a ginger chai at the Safi Landmark Hotel as I waited for Zabiullah Mujahid, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s deputy minister →

Psychedelic drugs, monkey brains and rescue drones to feature in cutting-edge research

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​modern diplomacy​​​ From more fresh water and less depression to life-saving drones and thought-interpreting scans, 2023 promises to be a big year in science. Still, don’t expect to fly in a plane →

Studies on moon mining and DNA

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​modern diplomacy​​​ By Giancarlo Elia Valori Will moon mineral extraction soon be underway? The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to build a moonbase. What makes it so anxious →

Former Pope Benedict XVI, the first pontiff to resign in 600 years, dies at 95

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nbc news By Corky Siemaszko Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the Bavarian-born theologian whose conservative Roman Catholicism earned him the nickname “God’s Rottweiler,” and who shocked his flock by →

You’re not imagining that hard leftists are ugly and unpleasant

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american thinker By Andrea Widburg There’s a new Substack site in town and, if a recent post about leftists’ biological underpinnings is anything to go by, this site will go far. The writer at →

What we know now: The CIA and FBI have been corrupt for seventy years

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american thinker By Patricia McCarthy On December 26, Lew Rockwell wrote a column about Tucker Carlson's December 15 program in which he discussed the most recent batch of documents that relate to →

Xi, Putin meet via video link; bilateral ties show ‘solid foundation to withstand tests’

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​global times​​​ Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with Russian President Vladimir Putin via video link. The two leaders discussed bilateral relations as well as regional and other issues. →

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