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MSF Tells the UN: USAID Cuts Are Closing Sudan's Last Clinics

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- In a tent clinic in Zalingei, Central Darfur, patient admissions climbed 22 percent between January and April this year. Not because disease was spreading faster than before (tho... Read More


Iran Agreed to a Ceasefire. Nobody Asked Hezbollah.

New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- Something notable is missing from Iran's written ceasefire roadmap. In sixty pages of diplomatic language, delivered to American envoys at the UN General Assembly on September 2... Read More


Qatar Holds the Hamas Card and the US Base Card. At UNGA, It Played Neither.

New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- There is a building in the Qatari capital that houses the political leadership of Hamas. There is an air base on the same patch of desert that hosts roughly ten thousand America... Read More


Iran Handed Washington a Written Ceasefire Plan. The Clock Starts Now.

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- Three hours into a meeting mediated by Qatar, Pakistan, and Egypt in a secured room at the United Nations, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi slid a folder across the table ... Read More


Baghdad Set June 2027 to Disarm Iran's Militias. They Refused.

BAGHDAD, Sept. 25 -- When the last American soldiers board their transports out of Iraq on September 30, the country's most heavily armed non-state factions will still be holding their weapons. Under ... Read More


Imran Khan's Sisters Are in Jail. His Supporters Are Coming Anyway.

ISLAMABAD, Sept. 25 -- Three of Imran Khan's sisters are sitting in a Lahore jail tonight, held under a colonial-era law that requires no charge and no trial, signed off by a district official in thir... Read More


UN Adopts Pandemic Declaration - Vaccine Equity Clause Still Missing

NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- The applause in the United Nations General Assembly hall on Thursday lasted less than a minute. One hundred and ninety-three countries had just adopted, by consensus, a political... Read More


Israel Barred Its Arab Parties From Running. The Election Is Five Weeks Away.

The committee, Sept. 25 -- Israel's Central Elections Committee voted 18 to 5, with one abstention, on Wednesday to bar both of the country's main Arab-led political parties from standing in the Octob... Read More


Eight Sailors Tried to Kill Themselves. Trump Called It Fake News.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- Eight sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln attempted suicide during the warship's 286-day deployment to the Middle East, the acting Secretary of the Navy confirmed in a lette... Read More


The EU Dropped Two Russian Oligarchs. One Diplomat Called It 'Blackmail'.

BRUSSELS, Sept. 25 -- Late on a Tuesday evening, as the world's attention was fixed on the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the European Union quietly deleted two names from its Russia san... Read More