Meanwhile, the “fig leaf” brilliantly obscured these regimes’ failures: stunted development, brutal repression, and interregional rivalries where survival justified any sacrifice.

The Israeli security establishment held discussions on the humanitarian situation in Gaza on Monday, where a senior IDF official stated that “there is no famine in Gaza. We’re not even close ...

Admiral Samuel Paparo told journalists that China was "very close" to the point where the “fig leaf of an exercise” could mask preparations for an attack. In the past year, Beijing has stepped ...

It makes starvation a bargaining chip. It is a cynical sideshow. A deliberate distraction. A fig leaf for further violence and displacement.” Jake Wood resigned from his position as executive ...

Tom Fletcher, the UN relief chief, has called the plan “a deliberate distraction” and “a fig leaf for further violence and displacement”. Other rights groups have condemned the mandatory ...

A gorgeous evergreen that forms beautiful, double-cup-shaped purple-to-black blooms, this hellebore (Helleborus) variety grows in a bushy, upright clump. "Black flowers are often hard to ...

If Pakistan indulges in fresh mischief, India will rain explosives, and the Pakistani leadership cannot hide behind the fig leaf that differentiates state actors from non-state actors. Nor can ...

Head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Tom Fletcher went further in the Security Council last week, calling it "a fig leaf for further violence and ...

Despite being a comparatively low-maintenance houseplant for people with a green thumb, figuring out how to properly take care of a fiddle leaf fig takes work. It needs its sunlight to be bright but ...

F is for fig leaf - BBC Sounds Unspeakable Series 2 Series 2 3. F is for fig leaf Released On: 27 May 2025 Available for over a year Sneaky sidesteps, simultaneous socialising and sticky ...