Before we begin, let’s be clear about my mission as Devil’s Advocate. The official description of the office initially created by Pope Sixtus V states that my official duty is “to suggest natural ...

With approximately 11.6 million 60-kg bags forecast and exports nearing 288.2 billion Birr ($200.8 billion), Ethiopia must either transform its irreplaceable Arabica gene pool into a high-value ...

The agriculture and allied sectors have seen their gross value added (GVA) more than triple between 2011-12 and 2023-24, as per a recent report by the Ministry of Statistics. Now, agriculture accounts ...

Indonesia is in shock. Our hearts burn with anger, grief and unrelenting outrage over a profound injustice. On August 28, 2025, Affan Kurniawan, a young Gojek driver, was brutally killed in Jakarta ...

As reported by the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces, Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir recently made his second visit to the United States on August 10.

The US Senate has passed the distinctly misnamed “big beautiful b i ll.” It is, in fact, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in living memory. The House of Representatives ...

A recent podcast episode featuring a well-known economist sparked a debate when the guest suggested that “some corruption” might, paradoxically, enhance economic growth in heavily bureaucratic systems ...

AI’s influence spans the globe. These constellations of technology, as some governments label them, are a dynamic and influential aspect of today’s society. And yet AI systems and the analysis of such ...

The Syrian crisis began in 2011, when Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s government cracked down violently on protests linked to the Arab Spring uprisings. That repression ignited over a decade of ...

As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...

Many readers would see Turkey’s condemnation as a simple case of an Islamist regime railing against Western suppression of Islam. Indeed, the government’s statement was full of accusations of ...

Israel has carried out a relentless and zealous military onslaught in Gaza that shows orchestrated mass inhumanity on a gargantuan scale. This campaign has killed tens of thousands of civilians, razed ...