James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader, dies aged 93
American actor James Earl Jones, best known for being the voice of the Star Wars villain Darth Vader, has died…
Lavrov warns US not to mock Russia’s ‘red lines’
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, responding to a question about the potential delivery of long-range…
Tajikistan: Has anything changed?
Brussels/Dushanbe (10/8- 75)
Once more Tajikistan comes on the radar screen. Who will be the next president of…
Hope, Fear and Jealousy
How does one man consistently get it right in Earth’s most unpredictable political stage play?
Meet Allan…
Pull of Russia’s Incursion, Lead Ukraine to Victory
Frankfurt, Paris (18/8 – 62.50)
Ukraine has scored a series of victories in more than a week since…
Kursk: ….and the wheels are coming off
Washington/Paris/Berlin (12/8 – 28.57).
Today is the twenty-anniversary of the sinking of the Kursk. A…
Meet the founder who built and sold a $600M enterprise software startup from Sri…
Sanjiva Weerawarana is a Sri Lankan success story. He founded enterprise software firm WSO2 in 2005, got it…
“She’s either buried or married.” What we know about early and forced marriages in…
Being married to a stranger at fourteen or fifteen, being raped, beaten and humiliated by her husband and his…
In Tajikistan, Clerics And Government Officials Are Deciding What Women Should…
Women's clothes are high on the government's agenda once again in Tajikistan, where authorities and Islamic…
A mysterious plot prompts a rare call from Russia to the Pentagon
Washington – Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin received an unusual request from an…