Diplomatic Coup: China Brokers Iran-Saudi Rapprochement
China has rearranged the power balance in the Middle East, leaving the U.S. and its main regional ally, Israel, isolated.
China has rearranged the power balance in the Middle East, leaving the U.S. and its main regional ally, Israel, isolated.
Pope Francis’ 10th anniversary was heralded by news from the German Catholic Church that it will now be blessing same-sex couples.
Farmers will get a better deal. A relieved Flemish Prime Minister Jan Jambon (N-VA) said “it was a long and difficult road, but the result is what counts.”
The deal is part of the trilateral AUKUS defense partnership, which the U.S. views as a counterbalance to China’s increasing boldness in the Indo-Pacific.
Completed in the fifth century BC in devotion to the pagan goddess Athena, the Parthenon represents both Athens’ architectural and civilisational apex.
The 35-year-old male perpetrator, a former member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses community, is believed to have been struggling with mental issues.
Demonstrators are calling for the government to urgently address railroad safety, which they claim had been ignored for years.
Flemish farmers deem themselves unfairly targeted, echoing their Dutch colleagues’ grievances who last year made their own voices heard.
Chinese analysts paint the 7.2% increase as a “reasonable and restrained boost amid military spending sprees by many other countries around the world.”
Last January, Belgian NGO worker Olivier Vandecasteele was sentenced to 40 years in prison on what Brussels has declared as ‘sham’ espionage charges.
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