When the head of Libya’s UN-backed Government of National Accord suspended the interior minister from his duties at the end of August, militias in Tripoli celebrated by firing weapons in Continue Reading
Since its founding, Israel has seen itself as a modern-day Sparta, a tiny fortress nation-state in a hostile desert, whose survival depended on its internal cohesion and sheer military strength. All Continue Reading
Young men block a road with burning tyres during protests in Libya’s eastern coastal city of Benghazi on 12 September 2020. A spokesman for Gen Haftar said the administration backed Continue Reading
After weeks of tensions in the eastern Mediterranean, Greece and Turkey have signaled a willingness to start talks aimed at resolving a long-standing sea dispute tied to potentially lucrative offshore Continue Reading
Israel – with a population of nine million – has been seeing some 4,000 new cases a day Israel is to impose a new national lockdown – becoming the first Continue Reading
Oil-rich Gulf nations are relying on a well-worn playbook of spending less and borrowing more to get through the coronavirus crisis but with the outlook for oil clouded by uncertainty Continue Reading
For many countries, battling the coronavirus has been a sprint to bring infections under control, then a struggle to keep it that way. In India, it has turned out to Continue Reading
Few environmental campaigns in China have been so enthusiastically pursued or so controversial as its Great Green Wall. Every spring, government officials, teachers, students, and company employees go on group tree-planting Continue Reading
Oil demand growth in China is currently the only certainty, with consumption in the country seen rising through the remainder of 2020 and recovering completely in 2021, but the rest Continue Reading
U.S. voters generally support natural gas production, but nearly half of U.S. registered voters believe the natural gas industry must do more to reduce emissions to have natural gas play Continue Reading
