How CIA pop music helped elect the president of the Philippines
Filipinos will go to the polls in May to elect a new president, marking the end of Rodrigo Duterte’s years in power. Presidential hopefuls will be using what Filipinos call political campaign jingles ...
21 Jan 202215min
What Israel’s Omicron wave means for global vaccine push
In Israel in January 2021, then prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised the people that if they turned out at vaccine centres then Israel would be the first country to see an end to the pandemic, l...
14 Jan 202223min
Can Iran and the US reach a new nuclear deal?
Talks in Vienna between Iran and the US have resumed in the hope of reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. It was then US President Donald Trump who, in 2018, decided to ignore foreign policy experts, and hi...
7 Jan 202214min
A look back at 2021 (Part 2): The Taliban takeover and the Gaza-Israel War
This week, as we wrap up 2021, we’re looking at two conflicts that have defined not only the past year, but the past few decades. We’re talking about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the collapse o...
30 Dec 202125min
A look back at 2021 (Part 1): Covid-19 and the space race
Lockdowns may have given way to Covid vaccine drives in 2021 but as the year ends, the spread of Omicron has pushed millions back into some form of social restriction. From the fall of Afghanistan to ...
23 Dec 202143min
How worried should we be about the Omicron variant?
A new variant of coronavirus is spreading across the globe. Named Omicron, after the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet, it has sparked travel bans around the world. In South Africa, where the variant...
16 Dec 202116min
Macron in the Middle East
President Emmanuel Macron of France has been back in the Middle East. This time he was in Saudi Arabia, his first visit to the kingdom since 2017, before heading to the UAE. The French leader has made...
9 Dec 202128min
50 years of the UAE through the eyes of those who lived it
The UAE is 50 years old. Half a century of growth and change has taken place to bring a small desert country to the forefront of global recognition. Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest building in th...
1 Dec 202122min
