Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief, Prince Turki bin Faisal, told The Times of Israel on Sunday that Riyadh is currently not even entertaining the idea of normalizing relations with Israel and ...

It’s ’90s night at the Tokyo disco, as Japan’s central bank on Friday raised its policy interest rate to the highest level since 1995. The Bank of Japan’s ongoing monetary normalization is one of the ...

Thousands of Moroccans took to the streets on Saturday evening in the city of Tangier, northern Morocco, protesting the normalization of relations with Israel and denouncing the genocidal war being ...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is widely expected to raise interest rates to a three-decade high, marking another milestone in its gradual exit from ultra-loose monetary policy. At the conclusion of its ...

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The Armenian community in Türkiye hopes for swift normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, Archbishop Sahak II Mashalian, the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople (Istanbul) told Armenpress in ...

PEN America's report found 6,870 instances of book bans in 2024 and 2025. Books bans in public schools have become a "new normal" in the U.S., escalating since 2021, according to one advocacy group.

A parable is a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. The word "parable" comes from the Greek word "parabolē," which means "comparison" or ...

The old adage, "familiarity breeds contempt," rings eerily true when considering the dangers of normalizing deviance. Coined by sociologist Diane Vaughan, this phenomenon describes the gradual process ...