By Queen Rania Al Abdullah Rania Al Abdullah is the queen of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Bethlehem usually comes alive at Christmas. Not this year. In the Holy Land, celebrations have been canceled: no parades, no bazaars, no public tree lightings. In my country, Jordan, where Jesus was baptized, our Christian communityContinue Reading

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has confirmed he will run for re-election next year, a move that can secure his leadership until at least 2030. Rewarding a medal to veterans of war in Ukraine on Friday, Putin confirmed he would run “for the post of president” again in the 2024 election. “IContinue Reading

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi’s wife, Jamileh Alamolhoda, has vehemently condemned Israel’s crimes against Palestinian women and children in the besieged Gaza Strip, describing them as a cause of shame for the entire world. Alamolhoda made the comment in a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife, Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron, onContinue Reading

The whole of Gaza Strip is the joint ancestral home of the sons of Abraham. The inhabitants there are the descendants of Isaac and Ishmael, that is, Jews and Arabs, respectively. The problem is that Israel is still not accepting the descendants of Ishmael as their first cousins because ofContinue Reading

Russia has accused the United States and other Western powers of meddling in Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union to force pro-Western policies in Kiev. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the remarks on Wednesday at a UN Security Council session, held at the request of Albania. InContinue Reading