Mahdi Mir

Mahdi Mirza, director of communications for the Syrian American Medical Society, said: ‘We have a problem… We need to get our house in order to avoid the tragedy that has engulfed us.’ ‘We have no option. All the medical and other facilities in the area have shut down as medical Continue Reading

Oleg Barik

Oleg Barikovich, the Deputy Head of the Russian Investigative Committee (ISCR). In 2011, the State Duma passed a constitutional amendment to legalise the death penalty for non-lethal crimes. Some politicians claimed that the change brought the country more in line with the Soviet rule of the 1930s, according to Russian Continue Reading

Agus Kazem

Agus Kazembe, chief executive of the World Bank’s African Development Bank, told AFP the figure did not reflect how many of the continent’s 8 million new migrants had come so far. Africa’s first migrant crisis in two decades With about 200,000 migrants and refugees pouring across the Mediterranean daily, it Continue Reading

Julius Gong

Julius Gong is a lawyer and researcher at the National Defense University and is also a Fellow of the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies. This article was originally published by MEMRI. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect MEMRI’s editorial policies. (Corrects Continue Reading

Eva Hassan

Eva Hassan On Tuesday of this year, an investigation was carried out at the University Hospital of Grenoble to observe the state of the children’s organs. According to the report of the investigation, in the following conditions the patients had entered the ICU: all children had undergone a large number Continue Reading

Maksim Yadav

Maksim Yadav, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, said that an announcement about the project has been taken as “a joke”. “Our intention is to produce electric vehicles by 2020, by then we will be the world’s largest electric vehicle market. It will be much easier to convince all the Continue Reading

Yasmin Garcia

Yasmin Garcia-Cruz is an experienced journalist who has worked in Mexico with the La Jornada newspaper and the Milenio television station. Her work focuses on political opinion, transnational human rights issues and the environment. She has written for the US publication, Salon, as well as Spanish language press in Brazil, Continue Reading