Zoe Hu

De­spite fal­ter­ing pop­u­lar­i­ty abroad, Hezbol­lah en­joys ex­ten­sive po­lit­i­cal pow­er at home in Lebanon.

The ul­ti­mate aim of COP 22 will be to build on the scaf­fold­ing put in place by Paris’s cli­mate talks in 2015.

Rhetor­i­cal bait and switch en­abled As­sad to ne­glect po­lit­i­cal re­form while cul­ti­vat­ing sup­port among wealthy elite.

Ra­jiv Biswas, Asia-Pa­cif­ic chief econ­o­mist at IHS, dis­cuss­es how the yuan’s de­pre­ci­a­tion will af­fect glob­al mar­kets.

Re­port by Amnesty In­ter­na­tion­al “de­fin­i­tive­ly con­firms” war crimes by gov­ern­ment forces against civil­ian pop­u­la­tions.

Pro­test­ers, in­clud­ing men wear­ing rain­bow bras, de­cry jail­ing of woman for bump­ing her chest against a po­lice­man’s arm.

A draft “anti-ter­ror­ism” law in Egypt has raised con­cerns over pri­va­cy and hu­man rights in the coun­try.

A pro­file of the Iran­ian politi­cians at the fore­front of the nu­clear deal, and the stances they adopt­ed over time.

Gaza’s health ser­vices were re­peat­ed­ly tar­get­ed dur­ing 50-day war in 2014, ac­cord­ing to Pales­tin­ian rights groups.

Egypt’s youth and ac­tivists are be­ing sub­ject­ed to a num­ber of re­pres­sive mea­sures, ac­cord­ing to Amnesty In­ter­na­tion­al.