Sharmila Devi is a journalist with more than 25 years of experience writing for international newspapers, journals, and agencies. She worked for the Financial Times for more than a decade, served as the newspaper's Jerusalem correspondent during the Second Intifada, and reported extensively from the Middle East and Africa. She has also worked as a political risk consultant and writer for humanitarian agencies.
The news from Japan that the number of births this year is forecast to fall to the lowest level since records began in 1899 is...
Amid the seasonal festivity at this time of year, a number of think tanks and aid agencies delivered a dose of reality and released their...
The new year looks likely to be an unhealthy one for many Americans. Life expectancy in the US is already lower than in European countries,...
Is Yemen heading towards partition? Following an offensive last week, UAE-backed separatists now control the oil-rich province of Hadhramaut and the rest of south Yemen, which...
Forecasts of millions of extra deaths and infections of HIV over the next few years, caused by massive cuts in the aid budgets of the...
