Child labour rising in West Africa cocoa farms despite efforts – report
The use of child labour has risen in cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast over the past decade despite industry promises to reduce it,...
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Uber wins license battle in London
Uber has won its battle to continue operating in London, one of its biggest markets globally, after a judge found that the company had sufficiently...
Israel Tightens Holiday Lockdown, Restricting Prayers and Protests
JERUSALEM — Warning that his country could be approaching “the edge of the abyss,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu imposed an even tighter lockdown than the...
Trump Seeks to Turn Israeli-Arab Accords Into Campaign Gains
WASHINGTON — When President Trump presided over a grandiose White House signing ceremony for new accords between Israel and two Arab states last week, his re-election...
Israelis Prepare to Celebrate the Year’s Holiest Days Under Lockdown
JERUSALEM — As Israelis prepare to celebrate the holiest days on the Jewish calendar under a fresh lockdown, organizing prayer services is proving to be...
Trump’s Middle East Deal Is Good. But Not That Good.
The normalization of relations between Israel and two Arab states, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, is, on the face of it, a good and...
Covid Strands Hasidic Pilgrims on Ukraine-Belarus Border
VINNYTSIA, Ukraine — They sang. They danced. They slumped in exhaustion on their luggage. For a second night in a row, hundreds of Hasidic Jewish...
The Love Triangle That Spawned Trump’s Mideast Peace Deal
Having covered Arab-Israel diplomacy for more than 40 years, I have to say that the normalization agreements signed Tuesday between Israel and the United Arab...
Trump Hosts Israel, U.A.E. and Bahrain at White House Signing Ceremony
WASHINGTON — Proclaiming that “there’s going to be peace in the Middle East,” President Trump hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and the foreign...
A Rare Middle East Triumph
For years, the Trump administration’s peacemaking efforts in the Middle East have been the object of relentless derision in elite foreign-policy circles, some of it...