Shereena Qazi

Dec 9, 2024 | trtworld.com | Shereena Qazi

Pick any headline from a European news outlet in recent weeks, and it would appear that the Georgian people have risen in a revolutionary fervour in their march to embrace the European Union bloc. Nothing can be further from the truth. The protests that have rocked Georgia since late November are spearheaded by a coalition of opposition parties, which miserably lost the elections to the Georgian Dream party.

Sep 20, 2024 | trtworld.com | Shereena Qazi

Jubilant young men rolled on the Presidential bed while some wandered around and took selfies. Many roamed the once-guarded hallway, and others sat in groups in the presidential palace's garden. These were the scenes from July 23, 2022, hours after Sri Lankans overran the presidential palace, forcing the then-leader Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee. Months of protests had led to exit from power and eventual escape from the country.

Sep 16, 2024 | trtworld.com | Shereena Qazi

More than 200,000 elephants are estimated to live in a conservation area spread over five southern African countries - Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Angola and Namibia - making the region home to one of the largest elephant populations worldwide. "Our population has been increasing, elephant population also increasing, but the the country that we call Zimbabwe is not expanding, so we need to do a balance," Farawo said.

Sep 11, 2024 | trtworld.com | Shereena Qazi

It has been twenty-three years since the September 11 attacks on the United States. What ensued afterward was a devastating war that the US imposed on Afghanistan to drive the Taliban from power. Tens of thousands of people, most of them Afghan civilians, were killed in the war that saw Washington spend more than $2 trillion to flush out Taliban fighters from their hideouts in the mountains. But in 2021, the US troops withdrew from Afghanistan, and the Taliban took control of Kabul.

Sep 3, 2024 | trtworld.com | Shereena Qazi

In recent days, the focus of security experts has shifted to the nuclear power plant in the Russian city of Kursk that is fending off against a Ukrainian incursion. The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has expressed concern about the danger of damage to the nuclear reactors amid the ongoing fight. Russia blames Ukraine for intentionally trying to strike the power plant with drones.