BOTH of us are public health professionals and have had the honour of serving in the capacity of health ministers in our countries.... Political upheavals, wars, civil strife and natural catastrophes have kept Afghanistan in emergency mode for decades.... Resultantly, Afghanistan ranks abysmally on most key health indicators regionally, and in some cases globally. Covid-19 has redefined the concept of national and global security....

British gasoline stations running dry, surging power costs in the European Union ahead of winter, forced restrictions on energy use in China and rising oil, natural gas and coal prices. You could be forgiven for thinking the world had suddenly been hit by an energy shortage, but you would be mostly wrong. While the squeezes slamming consumers and businesses is acute, the disruptions have less in common than you may think. Uniting them is an energy demand rebound from lows hit in depths of the co

Cooperation between Moscow, Tehran, and Ankara on Syria has resulted in political and security achievements, but while Russia and Iran are the fixed sides of this triangle, Turkey is unstable and unreliable for strategic affairs, believes Mohammad Reza Sheibani, former Iranian Ambassador to Syria.

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Paris later Thursday to discuss international crises and European issues, days before elections that will determine who succeeds her after 16 years in office.... Macron’s office said topics will include the diplomatic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, the situation in Mali and European Union affairs.... France has over 5, 000 troops deployed in the broader Sahel region to fight Islamic extremists....

This is undoubtedly the first time in many years that the world economy has been threatened by three crises, each quite distinct in its origins, but whose consequences are intertwined, writes Valdai Club expert Jacques Sapir. A new international economic crisis is clearly on the agenda for many com

Police officers stand in front of United Nations headquarters in New York, on Sept.... Other pressing issues are rising U.S.-China tensions, Afghanistan's unsettled future under its new Taliban rulers and ongoing conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region.... Last year, no leaders came to the U.N. because the coronavirus was sweeping the globe, so all their addresses were pre-recorded....

Join our Whatsapp channel The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan( HRCP) and other civil society groups on Thursday urged the government to immediately address the prevalent “ human rights crises ” affecting the country, including the clampdowns on protesters and the misuse of blasphemy and cybercrime laws. The demand came amid a recent crackdown on protesters of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee( BYC) demonstrating against enforced disappearances and arrests of its leadership in Karachi and Quetta,

KUALA LUMPUR( Bernama): Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has called on Malaysians to treat differences as an advantage rather than a weakness, and similarities as a source of strength in dealing with the current twin crises in economy and health. The Prime Minister said as a Malaysian Family, everyone needed to work together to revive the country and adapt to new norms." Let us forge and strengthen unity with the bond of love and tolerance as a big Malaysian Family." Whoever we are, whether a fath

HONOLULU--In Singapore, in between a foreign policy speech and a roundtable talk about supply chain issues, Vice President Kamala Harris stopped to smell the flowers. Specifically, she checked out an orchid that the country named after her — a light fuschia hybrid named Papilionanda Kamala Harris — a diplomatic honor also bestowed on former President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden during past visits to the country.“ Oh, this is extraordinary, ” she marveled as she took a brief to

The Duke of Sussex has claimed" corporate greed and political failures" have prolonged the HIV and Covid crises. The Prince marked World Aids Day by warning that not learning from mistakes made with the AIDS epidemic would be a" betrayal of the next generation".He said vaccinating the world is a" test of our moral character" and that there has been a" spectacular failure" over global access to Covid vaccines.In a letter read out on the Duke's behalf at a World Health Organization and UNAIDS even