David Pratt

IT'S probably the only thing that the Israeli government and Hamas have had in common these past months. I’m speaking, of course, about that fact that both were quick to condemn the International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan's request for warrants against leaders of both Israel and Hamas when he made them earlier in May ...

THE race is on, and it’s a dangerous one too. Along the roughly 650-mile frontline of the Russia-Ukraine war the fighting has picked up noticeably. So too has activity on the bigger strategic and geopolitical level...

‘COULD things get any weirder?” So went the opening question posed by The Washington Post columnist, Megan McArdle, as she set about interviewing two of her political correspondent colleagues last week for an opinion piece aptly entitled; “How freaked out should we be about Trump’s Cabinet?”

A FEW weeks ago in the Sunday National, I quoted a remark made in the run-up to the US election by the Berlin bureau chief of The New York Times ...

The cafés of Kyiv, the crammed tent cities of Gaza and backstreets of Beirut’s southern suburbs, will not have escaped the news that America has spoken.

And so the hand wringing and blame game begins. On one level it’s entirely predictable, such was the concerted belief in so many quarters that America was sick and tired of Donald Trump’s antics and toxicity. 

TWO days out from the most significant US presidential election of modern times, the polls still show Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in deadlock ...

I READ somewhere the other day that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to postpone his son Avner’s imminent wedding. It’s down to security concerns apparently, given that his country is at war on multiple fronts ...

IF former Tory politician Rory Stewart’s take is anything to go by, then the outcome of the US presidential election is in

THE Kremlin must have been a very busy place these past weeks ...