Legality of the Syria strikes — IThe latest Syria sabre-rattling started with a threat from President Trump. He tweeted that missiles at Syria ‘will be coming, nice and new and ‘smart!’’ Since Russia is not a defenceless nation, the...
Castro brothers: the end of an eraAnd so the curtain descends on a dynasty that has dominated Cuban politics for nearly sixty years. On Wednesday, the Cuban National Assembly selected current Vice President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Ber...
Putin’s growing problems in SyriaRussia intervened in the Syrian civil war in the year 2015 when the regime of President Bashar Al Assad seemed to be at the verge of collapse. Russian air power coupled with the firepower of the forei...
Literary diplomacyA writer — or to be more precise — a poet with a somewhat provincial outlook, once got a chance to be included in a writers’ delegation that was sent to a neighbouring country. A journey that he still...