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When the Jordanian royal family gathered on April 11 to celebrate 100 years since the kingdom’s foundation, it was a picture of dynastic unity. Alongside King Abdullah was his half-brother, the former crown prince Hamzah bin al-Hussein, who had only days ago been placed under house arrest, following what was reported in the world’s press as a “coup attempt”. The king gave interviews assuring the outside world that all was well and that the former heir to the Jordanian throne had offered him his loyalty. In no other area of the world do royal families dominate politics as much as in th...

news ‘Himalayan Quad’: is China about to start its own security bloc with Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan? China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi hosts a video conference with his counterparts from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nepal in July 2020. Photo: Xinhua One of the most notable measures taken by Washington and its allies in response to China's rise and the threat it poses to the liberal international order has been the development of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or "Quad". China sees the grouping, which brings together Japan, India, Australia and the US, as part of the latter's po...

Leon Black pictured at his home in the Hamptons in New York. Black is stepping down from running Apollo Global Management, the private equity firm he co-founded in the 1990s. Apollo was part of the group that took over majority ownership of Vail Associates in 1992. Art Seitz/Abaca Press, via AP Leon Black, known locally as the founder of the company that would become the modern Vail Resorts, has been the subject of much national news in recent months. Here’s the first sentences of a few stories from national news outlets on March 22: CNN: “Leon Black will step down as CEO of Apollo Global...

Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency In our increasingly secular age, being on the side of science is similar to being on the side of God — a way to settle an argument by not actually making an argument. Just enlist an unassailable authority and move on. That’s how Joe Biden campaigned for president, vowing to “follow the science” on the COVID-19 pandemic wherever it led him. Only now it seems like he’s leading the science as much as the science is leading him. And that was inevitable. First, as with God, it’s sometimes difficult to know what scienc...

Russian judges ruled against opposition leader Alexei Navalny in two cases on Saturday, paving the way for him being sent to a penal colony as well as issuing a stiff fine. The court upheld Navalny's prison sentence, rejecting an appeal by the Kremlin critic in a case that triggered international condemnation and