By Rodion Ebbighausen

06 August 2019; DW: India's ruling party has delivered on its promise to revoke the special autonomous status for Jammu and Kashmir. It is a risky move, but there is a clear rationale behind it, says DW's Rodion Ebbighausen.

by Nasim Ahmed

5 Aug 2019; MEMO: The depth of the love between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi has few parallels.

by Xinhua writers Ma Jianguo and Lin Yuan

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- In the courtyard of the UN headquarters stands a large and imposing sculpture titled "Good Defeats Evil," a gift presented by the Soviet Union in 1990 on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the United Nations.

The sculpture depicts an allegorical St. George slaying a double-headed dragon, which was made from fragments of actual Soviet and U.S. missiles destroyed under the terms of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987.

by Carla Bleiker

05 August 2019; DW: Nearly 30 people have been shot dead in El Paso and Dayton. Don't expect the violence to end — the US won't tighten its gun laws, and the president continues to sow hatred, says DW Washington correspondent Carla Bleiker.

by Bernd Riegert

03 August 2019; DW: The INF treaty was far from perfect. But instead of abandoning the deal altogether, Russia and the US should have modernized the agreement. Yet it seems neither side was willing to do so, says DW's Bernd Riegert.

by Marwa Yahya

CAIRO, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner is currently touring the Middle East to drum up support for Washington's plan for the Israeli-Palestinian peace, better known as the "Deal of the Century."

The U.S. envoy's regional tour has already taken him to Jordan and Israel to discuss the controversial peace plan that has been rejected by the Palestinians. Kushner met on Thursday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo.

by Mahmoud Sadeeq

The philosophy that US President Donald Trump lives by is simple: “A businessman does not fight, he makes money.” This is how he deals with international affairs.

by Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh

30 July 2019; MEMO: The events occurring in the Arabian/Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and other international waterways raise many questions about the seizure of some oil tankers, the bombing of others and the shooting down of aircraft. We have heard fiery threats exchanged between the US and Iran, putting the whole world onto a media-boosted war footing.

by Peter Sturm

28 July 2019; DW: The people of semiautonomous Hong Kong are right to be concerned about China's government. The FAZ journalist Peter Sturm explores the mainland's potential military threat to the territory in this guest commentary.

There is an overwhelming fear in Hong Kong that the territory may soon lose its status as a special administrative region that the heavy-handed government of China has so far mostly kept its hands off.

BY Christoph Strack

27 July 2019; DW: On Monday, a black man was shot by a white German in Hesse. But, instead of mass outrage over the racist attack, many people seem more concerned over changes to kindergarten menus, DW's Christoph Strack writes.

27 July 2019; MEMO: Dissident Israeli scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s important academic study, “Palestine in Israeli School Books” is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand some important realities about the Israeli state and Israeli society.

26 July 2019; MEMO: Among all the attributes ascribed to US President Donald Trump by the now former British Ambassador to Washington Kim Darroch, racism did not appear in the leaks that hit London earlier this month. Maybe this was because the ambassador’s secret messages to his bosses in Westminster had been made soon after Trump entered the White House in an attempt to try and explain the new president’s personality and his ability to make decisions.