President Joe Biden stepped into the White House on Wednesday in the midst of the worst public health disaster in a century. The turbulence has been political and social, too, with a presidential election in which the losing candidate was impeached for a second time after being accused of inciting t...
President-elect Joe Biden’s foreign policy “to do” list only looking more difficult as he approaches inauguration day – even as the US faces new, substantive challenges, including COVID-19. After four years of ‘America First,’ we take a look at Biden’s suite of challenges on the global stage as he p...
Since election day, Donald Trump and other Republicans have filed a smattering of lawsuits in battleground states as his campaign push on to fight the election results tooth-and-nail.
"Our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful w...
On Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump fired his secretary of defense, Mark Esper, via tweet. The move came just two days after Joe Biden won the 2020 Presidential election, a development Trump so far refuses to accept. In the wake of Esper’s departure, the Trump administration imposed a new ro...
The ruler of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, marking the end of an era, in which he was one of the last Gulf rulers whose life spanned the region’s discovery of oil and emergence as some of the world's richest countries. In a region marked by turmoil and ins...
Lebanon's internal security chief Abbas Ibrahim said that a massive blast in Beirut's port area occurred in a section housing highly-explosive materials, and not explosives as had been reported earlier by the official state news agency NNA.
Speaking to reporters in televised remarks, he declined t...
United States President Donald Trump has appointed Dr Moncef Slaoui, a Moroccon-born Belgiun-American expert in immunology and vaccinology, as the new chief of what President Trump calls Operation Warp Speed. He is tasked with guiding a group of medical professionals to formulate a vaccine to ba...
by Ali Elmandalawy
Born in September 1987, Kim Yo-jong is the youngest daughter of late leader Kim Jong-il and is thought to be the most important figure in the tyrannical regime after Kim Jong-un. She is the only one of his siblings considered a close, trusted and powerful ally and i...
Lebanese singer and actress Fairuz is widely considered to be one of the most celebrated Arab singers of the 20th century. Fairuz was born Nuhad al-Haddad, in 1935, the eldest child of Wadih Haddad and Liza Bustani. Her father was a print-shop technician who moved his family to Beirut from th...
Ahmed Al-Tayeb was born in 1946 in Al-Kurna village in the governorate of Luxor. He received his basic education at Al-Azhar school, where he memorized and studied the Qur’an and Islamic major works and texts. He studied Doctrine and Philosophy at Al-Azhar University, where he graduated in 196...
