(Arab News- Baria Alamuddin )-  The World Food Programme is warning of a “wave of collateral hunger” around the world as a result of the carnage in Ukraine. Arab states are likely to be among the hardest hit. Ukraine had been the WFP’s second-largest supplier of wheat. The...

(THE CONVERSATION) The economic sanctions levied upon Russia as a consequence of its invasion of Ukraine target the Russian economy and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest personal and business associates. The goal is to alter domestic politics within Russia, ultimately stopping...

Calls to increase oil production to curb the rise in oil prices as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine have fallen on deaf ears among the leaders of the Gulf states, who are seeking to resist Western pressure.   The Gulf region wants to achieve large profits from the high prices...

Three weeks ago, the leaders of China and Russia declared that the friendship between their countries “has no limits” as they met in Beijing on the eve of the Winter Olympics. But that was before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a gambit that is testing just how far China is willing to go....