Born in Baghdad, former track and field champion Aviva Ballas was one of Israel's top runners in the early 1970s. From her home in Switzerland, she recalls the stroke of luck that saved her from ...

Political scientist Mark Leonard has found that people around the world are far more optimistic about Trump's presidency than ...

There’s no agreed-upon scheme to name boundaries and features shared by countries. And map lines are inherently political.

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming ...

No Other Land, the Palestinian-Israeli doc that shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, was among this morning’s 2025 Oscar nominees for Best Documentary ...