Their attacks on Red Sea ships have brought them global attention. The PLC, backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is the biggest counterweight to the Houthis in Yemen. “The objective was to utilise this council to engage with the Houthis either militarily or through negotiations,” Raiman al-Hamdani, a Yemen researcher at the ARK Group, told Al Jazeera. …
Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. “We do not want to tyrannize anything,” he said, adding that it is keen to speak to other Yemeni factions and work with them to achieve what is in their interests and “in the interest …
When Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailman co-wrote The 7 Stages of Grieving in 1994-1995 it held a radical thread of hope. And as Helpmann Award-winning actress Elaine Crombie steps into the role for Sydney Theatre Company's fourth staging of the show, helmed by resident director Shari Sebbens, she's asking: "What's the use of reconciliation if we're all dead?" In April, …
