Month: April 2019

Egyptian and Emirati influence on Donald Trump has thrown US policy on Libya into turmoil at a moment when Tripoli is under attack and the “‘No coherent policy’: Trump’s scattergun approach plunges Libya deeper into peril”

One of the Arab world’s most visible advocacy groups defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people is facing closure following legal “Tunisia invokes sharia law in bid to shut down LGBT rights group”

It happens on the third day, after our bookbinding class, having spent the morning deep in concentration learning how to Coptic-stitch and emboss our own “Hats off to Fez: go back in time in this atmospheric city”

For the past five years, I’ve taken my kids camping once a month. On Fridays I load our tent and gear and we drive to “How going camping saved my sanity – and made me a better father”

Claudia Gould, the director of the Jewish Museum in New York City, describes the allure of Leonard Cohen as beyond mere fandom. “He goes right “‘It’s him, but through the eyes of others’: behind the Leonard Cohen exhibition”

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands sought to broker a deal via the Vatican in which senior Nazis at the end of the second world war “Dutch queen planned deal with Nazis to help rescue Belgian king”

George Benson, singer and guitarist Quincy Jones was looking for artists for his new label, Qwest Records. I’d started to cross over from jazz and “George Benson: how we made Give Me the Night”

The fugitive Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has appeared in a propaganda video for the first time in five years, in which he acknowledges “Isis leader Baghdadi appears in video for first time in five years”

Donald Trump has made more than 10,000 false or misleading claims since he became president in January 2017, according to a count by factcheckers at “Trump has made 10,000 untrue claims as president, factcheckers say”

The Department of Justice (DoJ) has informed the powerful House of Representatives judiciary committee that attorney general William Barr may not attend a Thursday hearing “Barr threatens to skip House hearing on Mueller report over format dispute”