For the leaders of Turkey, North Korea & Israel, the ledger has been almost entirely positive, but Trump’s ejection would spell the return of a more conventional US foreign policy.
Israel’s repeat Covid national lockdown has enraged the public. The fury stems from a sense that it was Netanyahu’s legal worries that led to the government’s lockdown policies.
The deal will mark the legacies of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed. It will serve American interests too.
Netanyahu is facing protests with no common agenda. Already weakened by corruption indictments, he is sinking deeper into trouble, even with loyalists.
Yair had posted a picture of the Hindu goddess Durga, with the face of Liat Ben Ari, the prosecutor in his father's corruption cases, superimposed over the goddess' face.
Rarely has public dissatisfaction with Israel PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu been so high. Polls show only about 30% of Israelis trust his handling of the Covid health crisis.
Israel's parliament recently approved an emergency law that curtailed its own powers by allowing the cabinet to take any decision deemed necessary to curb the disease.
Netanyahu clinched another stint in office after Israel's highest court rejected a plea claiming he was unfit to govern given the criminal charges against him.
India’s policymakers need to ensure that labourers, and milk and newspaper delivery workers, do not have to sacrifice food just to keep a roof over their heads.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
He will not be missed / mourned. Think of this as a transient wave of extreme political views, breaking from a consensus towards multilateralism and globalisation growing since WW II, which served the world well. The new leaders from the Right did not prove to have dramatic new solutions to old problems, including inequality, caring for people who get left behind when shifts in economic activity take place. Covid has etched sharply the governance failures of many of these leaders.
Why this does not cover the impact such a change of guard in White House will make on India in general and Narender Modi in particular?
He will not be missed / mourned. Think of this as a transient wave of extreme political views, breaking from a consensus towards multilateralism and globalisation growing since WW II, which served the world well. The new leaders from the Right did not prove to have dramatic new solutions to old problems, including inequality, caring for people who get left behind when shifts in economic activity take place. Covid has etched sharply the governance failures of many of these leaders.