Nahlah Ayed
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canton, OH, United States
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Walled world: Lessons from Europe's border barriers
U.S. President Donald Trump wants a wall on the border with Mexico. Europe has built around 1,000 kilometres of border walls and fences since the 1990s. The jury's still out on whether they're effective. → Read More
Theresa May's Brexit deal is benched — but the political brawl is far from over
After Theresa May's Brexit deal suffered a decisive defeat in Parliament, the prime minister faces a critical non-confidence vote. But no matter the outcome for her, the country is still wracked by division with no clear path out of an intractable political mess. → Read More
Theresa May's survival streak continues in the face of Tory insurgency
In blocking a Tory coup, May has managed to sidestep her party's brutal family feud, the same one that started the U.K. down the bumpy Brexit road in the first place. But getting through that challenge was only one obstacle on a road still crowded with obstacles. → Read More
'It would be great to have clean air': A Polish wish as crucial climate talks open
Poland is hosting international climate change talks and while the country remains dependent on coal, improvements in air quality in one city provide some hope for environmentalists in the country and beyond. → Read More
In final months, Khashoggi repeatedly hit nerves as persistent critic of Saudi Arabia
Prior to his death, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi had hit an assertive stride as a persistent critic of Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. → Read More
'Once in a generation': this time, Irish government calls for ending abortion ban
Campaigns for both sides of Ireland's referendum on abortion made their final arguments Thursday ahead of the vote. Ireland is the last Western democracy whose laws still ban abortions, something the government is trying to change. But in a predominantly Catholic country, it's a controversial issue. → Read More
Who paid for them? Concern over spike in Facebook ads ahead of Ireland abortion vote
A divisive vote on abortion has emerged as a test case for democracies grappling with the dark side of political advertising on social media, writes Nahlah Ayed. → Read More
Once in line for the British throne, Prince Alexander is now a royal without a kingdom
Prince Alexander has the lineage and the palace, but the kingdom he was meant to rule no longer exists, writes Nahlah Ayed. → Read More
Brexit threatens peace and prosperity, fear many on both sides of Irish border
Failure to keep post-Brexit border traffic flowing freely between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland would fly in the face of the Good Friday peace agreement and hurt prosperity achieved since then, say many in border communities. → Read More
London real estate and Russian oligarchs: A tour of the city highlights where 'dodgy money' may be stashed
Russian oligarchs own some of London's most exclusive real estate as a way to launder their money. In the wake of the poisoning of a former spy on U.K. soil, Britons are looking at ways to put pressure on the oligarchs to rein in Putin. → Read More
Nerve agent in our midst is haunting, dangerous — and divisive
The U.K. is seeking international verification to help stamp out skepticism after declaring it's highly likely that Russia poisoned a former Russian spy and his daughter on British soil. → Read More
Dying of neglect: eastern Ghouta under siege is a hell on earth
Eastern Ghouta is running out of almost everything, but there is no shortage of ways to die. It is back in the world's gaze in a torrent of airstrikes, mortars, rockets and barrel bombs. → Read More
What could start the next war? 'Accident, miscalculation, blunder'
An insistent alarm is being raised over the rising probability the world will trip into its next major conflict rather than deliberately march into it. → Read More
Trump's 'ill-considered' Jerusalem decision will have wide-reaching repercussions
Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital is being criticized as a reckless move that could threaten the peace process and destabilize the region. → Read More
Saudi-Iran tensions put Lebanon, Hezbollah back in regional spotlight
Hezbollah’s evolution, from a primarily anti-Israel guerrilla army to advising or fighting with forces allied with Iran, has also now put it dead centre in the region’s escalating rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia. → Read More
Unknown soldier: 1 forensic anthropologist, 27,000 Canadians missing in action
Sarah Lockyer, 31, is the tiny program's co-ordinator and lone forensic anthropologist. She travels twice a year to France to study the remains of Canadians uncovered by construction workers or farmers in old battlefields increasingly invaded by modern-day development. On the trip back, it's not unusual for her to be carrying a piece of human bone in her luggage. → Read More
Prince Charles's private estate appears to triple offshore investment in just over a year
Leaked documents show that in just one buy-and-sell transaction, the Prince of Wales's private estate appears in just over a year to have tripled an estimated $100,000 US investment in an offshore company co-run by one of his closest friends. → Read More
Some 600,000 refugees later, Ottawa digs in on dealing with Myanmar on Rohingya crisis
Ottawa's approach to Myanmar might include expressions of concern, frank phone calls with civilian and military leaders, but not drastic ruptures, ruling out actions such as revoking Aung San Suu Kyi’s honorary Canadian citizenship — at least for now. → Read More
Trudeau appoints Bob Rae as special envoy to Myanmar
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is appointing Bob Rae as Canada's special envoy to Myanmar, two months into a growing crisis that has left 600,000 Rohingya Muslims displaced. → Read More
Unprecedented trove of data maps China's growing global reach and self-interest of its aid
New data on more than 4,300 projects in 150 countries indicate China's foreign aid contributions have almost matched those of the world's largest foreign aid donor, the United States. → Read More