Maribor za (Ne)mariborčane: Mesto festivalov

Poleg posameznih koncertov in repertoarja različnih gledaliških hiš so stalnica poletno-jesenskega kulturnega dogajanja v mestu ob Dravi...

Ptuj: V glasbeni šoli si želijo celostne rešitve prostorske stiske

Resnejše razprave o tem, da bi lahko s selitvijo v sedaj zapuščeno in propadajočo stavbo v Raičevi ulici, v kateri je imela skoraj štiri...

Otvoritev nove poslovalnice optike Zajec

Ponudba bo v obeh poslovalnicah podobna, zaradi želje po raznolikosti pa bo imela nova nekaj dodatkov v ponudbi blagovnih znamk. Za potrošnike bo...

Sanacija ali odkrivanje tople vode po celjsko

Več kot deset let je od tega, ko je dr. Domen Leštan z Biotehniške fakultete v Celju na javni predstavitvi razlagal, da je rešitev za 17...

Donald Trump cancels meeting with Kim Jong Un

UNITED STATES President Donald Trump has notified North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un that he has cancelled their highly anticipated summit in light of...

Amazon bows to the unions: new shifts and higher wages

Report. Amazon and the trade unions representing its employees in Italy reached a “historic” agreement, signed at the Castel San Giovanni, which...

White House’s John Kelly fails English and history with his views on immigrants

“They don't speak English … They don't integrate well.” This is how John Kelly, Donald Trump's chief of staff, described his reasons for the...

Parlamentarne volitve: Kdaj boste znižali davek na dodano vrednost (DDV)?

SMC: Ne bo ga znižal. Predlaga sodobni davek na nepremičnine, uvedbo davčne olajšave do pet odstotkov letne dohodnine za denar, porabljen za...

Maduro’s new government faces steep challenges

Commentary. Crowds gathered in Venezuela shouting ‘With Maduro I’m safe.’ But the chavista president’s electoral victory is not recognized by...

Jeklarski sindikati in uprava SIJ o plačah 

Po zahtevah sindikatov za spremembe plačnega sistema in dvig plač delavcem v družbah skupine Sij - Slovenska industrija jekla so se uprava Sij...

Prve na novi travi legende nogometa

Maribor se kot prvo slovensko mesto pridružuje izzivu World Challenge Day Maribor 2018. V organizaciji Športne zveze Maribor, Olimpijskega...

Maribor: Rebalans proračuna potrjen, dobre novice za Tezno 

Mariborski mestni svetniki so danes tudi v drugem branju z 18 glasovi za in šestimi proti potrdili rebalans letošnjega proračuna. Pri tem nobena...

Skupni svet delavcev SDH za dvig ekonomske demokracije

Zaposleni v devetih družbah, ki sodijo pod okrilje Slovenskega državnega holdinga (SDH), so predvsem z namenom dviga ekonomske demokracije, kot...

Priči na sojenju razbremenili nadškofa Krambergerja

Poznal sem interes mariborske nadškofije, naj se poišče kupec za nakup delnic Mladinske knjige. Zato sem poklical Stanislava Valanta in mu...

Balerine redko nosijo balerinke

Balerinke so udobni ženski čevlji brez pete ali z zelo nizko peto in z odprtim nartom, ki jih pod takšnim imenom pozna ves svet in so nastale po...

Nová ropa sme my

Ak nás pri nekontrolovanej ťažbe ropy či plynu zaujímajú napríklad dosah na životné prostredie – či už priame, alebo následné,...

Zločin bez trestu

Po štvrtku, keď medzinárodný tím vyšetrovateľov zverejnil svoj verdikt, páchateľa poznáme: raketový systém Buk patril ruským ozbrojeným...

Israel Wants to Deport Human Rights Watch Official. So Did Egypt and Syria

Israel claims to be the region’s only democracy, yet it is deporting a rights defender over his peaceful expression, joining the ranks of Cuba,...

Is Germany courting China and abandoning the US?

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gets a warm welcome in China, while Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has to deal with an increasingly abrasive United...

A Facebook le sale fácil decir "lo siento"

La audiencia de Mark Zuckerberg en el Parlamento Europeo fue un evento digno de lanzar a gritos la pantalla del computador por la ventana. Y es que...

We’re all under pressure from social media

A middle-aged university professor who missed her flight at a mainland airport was filmed threatening to assault airline staff and was quickly...

El disfraz del autoritarismo en Nicaragua

Se han sucedido reiteradas marchas de protestas en Managua, extendidas a todo el país en protesta por el gobierno autoritario de once años...

"Slovenija je tesna zaveznica"

Slovenske politične stranke in najvidnejši nosilci zunanje politike so se različno opredelili do ukrepa, ki ga je Slovenija sprejela v zvezi z...

Končno vikend!

Mustang Safari [GT22 • 19.00 • Vstop prost] Najboljše pri GT22 ni to, da je vstop v intimni kino (pogosto) brezplačen, ampak da iz kina naredi...

Oddati je treba novo vlogo za denarno socialno pomoč

S 1. junijem se denarna socialna pomoč zvišuje na 385 evrov, vendar morajo upravičenci - trenutno jih je okoli 50 tisoč - ponovno oddati vlogo,...

SDF needs to sink its culture of secrecy and fully release Iraq logs

The Defense Ministry on May 23 submitted to the Diet a report on its in-house investigation into the discovery of daily logs of the Ground Self-...

Letters to the Editor: Killing Humans Like Big Game Hunters

If You Say Israel's Illegitimate, Inspired by White Supremacy, You're Not an 'Impartial' Critic

Omar Shakir, the long-time anti-Israel activist threatened with deportation, clearly feels at home at Human Rights Watch. But claiming he's a...

Blame the truly powerful, not the bureaucrats, for land sale scandal

"Government officials are liars," yelled the female deputy director of Moritomo Gakuen. "And you've got no balls," she spat at an official of the...

Italy’s new PM said he attended NYU. The university has no record of him.

Report. Giuseppe Conte, confirmed Wednesday to be the next Italian prime minister, exaggerated his resume, according to multiple investigations...

This time, Asia will survive investors’ rush to the exit  

Investor sentiment towards developing economies is pretty bleak these days. But if there is one thing most investment strategists have been quick...

V Pekrah nocoj mladi predstavljajo svoja gledališka znanja 

V Kulturnem društvu Pekre-Limbuš, ki s svojo ljubiteljsko gledališko dejavnostjo razveseljuje že več kot deset let, imajo kar tri sekcije –...

Da bi bil novi Lent žarek upanja

Bodimo optimisti. Pred kratkim smo lahko prebrali, da je mestni svet potrdil investicijo in s tem izvedbo dveh za razvoj mesta vitalnih investicij....

China moving slowly into Hokkaido

Chinese money is pouring into Hokkaido at a much greater scale than imagined. In his recent visit to the island prefecture, Chinese Premier Li...

Gambling on summit

By Donald Kirk It is time now to calculate the odds on whether President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet up even if not quite...

A New Keeper of Putin’s Secrets

MOSCOW – Since the fall of the Soviet Union, political power within the Kremlin has followed the logic of musical chairs. Factotums surface and...

‘I will be the lawyer of the Italian people’

Speech. Italian President Sergio Mattarella, after a long private meeting, conferred the mandate of prime minister to Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday...

Takšne kazni vas bodo doletele, če boste pijani na kolesu

"Kolesarji  spadajo  med  ranljive  udeležence  cestnega prometa in so poleg pešcev najbolj ogrožena kategorija prometnih udeležencev....

Albaugh obremenjuje z dovoljenjem občine Rače - Fram

Podjetje Albaugh, naslednik nekdanjega Pinusa, ki želi v Račah povečati proizvodnjo glifosata in za ta namen pridobiva okoljsko soglasje, miri...

(VOLILNA NAPOVED) Janša z močnim vodstvom v zadnji teden

Volilna napoved, ki jo za Večer in Dnevnik pripravlja Ninamedia, res velikih premikov od naše zadnje napovedi sredi maja ni prinesla. Še največ...

Erdan’s Test

A prime minister suspected of corruption offenses, some of which are the subject of active criminal investigations, must not be involved in...

Bes, brazgotine in črne luknje obupa

J. O. je imel srečo. Razredničarka v petem razredu je končno prepoznala njegovo težavo in mu pomagala do ustrezne strokovne pomoči. Tudi doma je...

‘Democracy isn’t always pretty’: Rights and freedoms in post-Suharto Indonesia

“I SHED a tear. I did not know why,” says Ariel Heryanto, the Herb Feith Professor for the Study of Indonesia at Monash University as he reflects...

Modest funeral

By Park Moo-jong The late LG Group Chairman Koo Bon-moo, who passed away Sunday after a year-long illness, was laid to rest Tuesday after his body...

Under Jokowi, conservative groups start to condemn terrorism

MOVING away from their past ambiguous stance on violent Islamic extremism, Indonesian conservative Muslim organisations are taking a more assertive...

US considers further financial cuts to international bodies to silence Palestinians

Under US President Donald Trump, international organisations have become targets for repression and vehicles by which Israeli oppression is...

Enter the dragon: China’s crucial role in winning Syria peace

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem have shown through their cordial  discussions that Beijing and Damascus...

US and Chinese stock markets wilt under Trump’s chaotic trade onslaught

Rarely can two sides that have reached agreement be so far apart. US President Donald Trump started the trade fight emboldened by his victory in ...

‘Russiagate’ goes ‘Spygate’ as Trump accuses ‘Criminal Deep State’ of infiltrating his campaign

On Sunday, in a series of rapid-fire Tweets, Trump called upon the Justice Department to investigate claims that the FBI infiltrated his campaign...

Poplavljene Prevalje in Ravne

Po kratkem nalivu, ki ni trajal več kot 20 minut, je voda pridrla iz okoliških vrhov na Ravne in Prevalje. Promet je obstal, cesta je bila...

North Korea calls US Vice-President Pence ‘ignorant and stupid’

US Vice-President Mike Pence is “ignorant and stupid” and risks “nuclear showdown,” a senior North Korean official said ahead of talks between...

An Economic Platform for US Democrats

CAMBRIDGE – When American voters head to the polls for congressional midterm elections in November, their choices seem likely to be guided more by...

Kdaj bo povprečna neto plača 1200 evrov

V katerem letu vašega morebitnega štiriletnega mandata bo povprečni Slovenec zaslužil 1200 evrov neto plače in kako bi za to poskrbeli? Tudi za...

Postavili bomo še dodatno ograjo na meji

Število beguncev in migrantov na novi balkanski poti, ki vodi iz Albanije preko Črne gore ali Srbije v Bosno in Hercegovino, se s toplejšim...

Bo društvo Beli tiger danes nakazalo denar?

V ljubljanski družbi Rinz ROS so nam potrdili, da včeraj do 15. ure niso prejeli denarja, ki bi jim ga moralo nakazati društvo Beli tiger. Kot smo...

Iz Štajerca: Pilot, ki je prvi pristal na mariborskem letališču

Čez nekaj dni, natančneje 29. maja, bo 42 let, odkar so mariborsko letališče uradno odprli za promet. Po krstu enega od letal in slovesnosti so...

Thai monks arrested in bid to ‘clean up Buddhism’ from graft

SEVERAL prominent Buddhist monks and worshippers were arrested in Thailand on Thursday after police raided four temples in this year's biggest...

The Right Has Appropriated 'The People'

In contemporary Israel, it’s not hard to discern the influence of small groups driven by belief in the myth of the chosen people, whose members...

Sony needs a new Walkman

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The Value of Measuring Financial Inclusion

NEW YORK – In modern economics, the interaction between supply and demand with regard to goods and services is well understood, thanks to the...

Malaysia's fragile democratic revival

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Burma: Hollywood stars, famous authors call for release of Reuters reporters

SOME of the literary world’s biggest names, along with Hollywood stars and renowned newscasters, have written an open letter to Burma’s...

The German Rules Trap

PARIS – Europe has a new German problem. Unlike in the past, it stems neither from hegemonic ambitions nor from the sort of weakness that might...

OECD: Shrink Japan’s gender pay gap

The Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development published in April its policy proposal titled “Japan: Promoting inclusive growth for an...

Exploited and abandoned, the Palestinians are truly the betrayed

Writing in the New York Times less than a week after 61 Palestinians had been shot dead by Israeli soldiers, and nearly 3,000 were wounded, the...

Otroška kirurgija ni edini oddelek, kjer primanjkuje zdravnikov

Vodstvo UKC Ljubljana zagotavlja varno obravnavo otrok s prirojenimi srčnimi napakami. Vlada pa vzpostavlja Nacionalni inštitut za otroške...

Redki materiali v baterijah: Rešitev bo ponovna raba

Vse več držav želi osebno mobilnost usmeriti v prodajo le baterijsko električnih vozil, kar naj bi se v Evropi zgodilo približno do leta 2040....

Low number of women MP candidates in Turkey

The recently announced MP candidate lists of Turkey’s political parties bring to mind the popular book, “The Woman Has No Name,” by the late...

Bayer in Monsanto: Združitev bo imela vpliv na kmetijsko pridelavo

Nemški kemični in farmacevtski koncern Bayer za prevzem ameriškega proizvajalca gensko spremenjenih semen in pesticidov Monsanta kmalu...

Jutri opozorilna stavka v Štore Steelu. Zgolj zaradi plač?

Jutri med 13. in 15. uro bo v štorski železarni Štore Steel potekala dvourna opozorilna stavka. A ne v celem podjetju, temveč le v obratu...

Democracy according to Eritrea's Afwerki, then and now

Today marks the 27th anniversary of Eritrea's independence, hard-won after a 30-year war with Ethiopia. On this day, as we rightfully celebrate, we...

On refugees, hate, and Bosnian elections

Since the beginning of this year, hundreds of refugees and migrants have been entering Bosnia-Herzegovina every month, on their way to Western...

Boko Haram survivors starved and raped by Nigeria's military

Shortly after Halima* arrived at a displacement camp in northeast Nigeria, a soldier approached her offering chicken and yams. Halima recognised...

Can multiparty democracy work in multiethnic Malaysia?

PENANG, MALAYSIA – On May 9, Malaysia’s political canvas was redrawn with a single election. By returning the 92-year-old Mahathir Mohamad to the...

German refugee agency scandal – Keep calm and investigate

Nothing rattles Germans quite as much these days as immigration and asylum issues. So as Jens Thurau comments, the failures by the Federal Office...

Scorched earth isn't a strategy

As Deutsche Bank shareholders meet, a nightmare is coming to life for the bank's 97,000 employees — some 7,000 jobs are to be slashed. Manuela...

Latin America needs to develop home-grown supply chains for stronger economic foundation

The Union of South American Nations (Unasur) — an organization that once aspired to become South America’s answer to the European Union —...

US escalation against Iran: options, prospects and the role of Islamists

America’s escalation against Iran, with the demands and threats made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, was the focus of the discussions during...

Marko v soboto odhaja na operacije v ZDA

Zadnji dnevi pred odhodom na operacije nog k zdravniku Drorju Paleyju na Florido v ZDA Marku Aberšku in njegovi mami Jožici minevajo kot blisk -...

What Not to Learn From Israel’s Unusual Baby Boom

While western birthrates decline, the Israeli fertility rate is high and rising, which makes some people think we can win a demographic race with...

Indian travellers’ carbon footprint is fourth-largest in the world, study shows

HAVE you ever wondered if that much cherished Swiss cowbell souvenir and that well-earned vacation may have played a role in global carbon...

The legitimacy and necessity of Arab revolutions

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to engage in daily, epic struggles, in various forms. Yet while they struggle against such odds, their...

The JNF’s March of Waste and Corruption Continues

JNF's giant delegation to the March of the Living event in Auschwitz somehow evaded the public radar. The waste, the corruption and the hedonism...

Why the Palestinian Struggle Is More Necessary Than Ever

Israel and the U.S. hope to bury the Palestinian national project and make Jerusalem a playground for settlers and evangelicals; the Palestinians...

Will Defunding Hungary and Poland Backfire?

BERLIN – Discussions surrounding the European Union’s 2021-2027 budget are intensifying, owing to many European policymakers’ insistence that...

Pushing for a War Against Iran

If anything, the regime under siege doubles down and uses the sanctions as a rallying cry for national unity and anti-Western sentiment- see Cuba,...

Erdoğan wants to soothe markets ahead of polls

“The intervention by the Central Bank has relieved capital markets to a certain extent,” said Tuncay Özilhan, the head of the Supreme Advisory...

The markets should be reassured

After the surge in the exchange rate reached alarming levels, the Turkish Central Bank finally held an extraordinary meeting on May 23 and decided...

The Arabs Chose to Be Refugees

Israel – Always in the Right

Recent days show how far Israel has deteriorated in her efforts to impose the absolute truth, which is not to be questioned. The day isn’t far when...

Donald Trump's North Korea gamble has backfired

Donald Trump has called off a planned meeting with Kim Jong Un to avoid embarrassment. It's clear that Washington's all-or-nothing approach to...

Turkish Lira vs. Turkish technology industry

Lately everyone has been talking about interest rates and the fall of the Turkish Lira against other currencies. These have a few serious...

US tries to bully the world into attacking Iran

Newly appointed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, known as an anti-Iran hawk, began the week by giving a frightening speech at the conservative...

Election paranoia

Turkey is certainly going through some very interesting times. What will tomorrow bring? It is so unclear that some are suffering from serious...

The suffering of Gazans continues

It has been 70 years since the creation of Israel and 101 years since the Balfour Declaration, calling for a national home for Jews in the former...

Study in Canada: Strategic career development and global success

As a prominent study hub for nearly half a million international students, Canada is in high demand among a global network of aspiring learners....

End of unipolar world? New world order evolves in response to US demands on Iran

However, it is doomed to failure. As Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pointed out following the US Secretary of State’s declaration mirroring the...

Adriatic Slovenica prodana za 245 milijonov evrov

Finančna družba KD Group je danes z družbo Generali CEE Holding sklenila pogodbo o prodaji 100-odstotnega lastniškega deleža v družbi...

Na otvoritev bi povabili tudi Putina

Kompleks nekdanjega nacističnega taborišča Stala XVIII D v Melju je danes gostil drugo mednarodno srečanje strokovnjakov muzealcev iz šestih...

Politična kampanja v polnem teku

Potem ko je trajalo kar precej časa, da je tudi pokrajina ob Muri začutila predvolilni utrip, je danes kampanja v polnem teku tudi v Pomurju. Prvi...

Oder na Dravi: Vsebino bodo še "naštudirali"

Danes se je mariborski župan Andrej Fištravec na svojem facebook profilu že pohvalil s sprehodom po plavajočem odru na Dravi. Pravzaprav sta se...

Madžari ovira na poti do priložnosti za medaljo

Januarja prihodnje leto bodo Danci in Nemci organizirali rokometno svetovno prvenstvo, slovenska reprezentanca pa si bo v prihodnjih dveh tednih...

Trump’s nuclear focus misses Kim Jong Un’s real leverage

Kim Jong Un has decided to show Donald Trump that the White House hasn’t cornered the market on drama, much less the Nobel Prize for bringing the...

Zažehnaný štátny trapas

Vláda schválila návrh Petra Pellegriniho vyhlásiť 30. október, výročie Martinskej deklarácie, za štátny sviatok. Kroky, ktoré tomu...

Carrie Lam cleans up after Leung Chun-ying does most of the dirty work 

It is perhaps a bad sign that so many opposition figures ended up fighting the government last week over two old – and unhealthy – trees that...

Los fraudes electorales en Colombia

Los candidatos presidenciales Iván Duque del Centro Democrático y Germán Vargas Lleras de Cambio Radical, sus fórmulas a la vicepresidencia y...

Najboljši hyundai, brez dvoma

Oznaka N pri znamki naj ne bi skrbela le za najbolj dinamične izvedenke, ampak s športnostjo, visoko tehnologijo in zmogljivostjo tudi za...

Še vedno bo šlo preveč hlodovine čez mejo

Včeraj so na Gomilskem v družbi vidnih predstavnikov oblasti napovedali daleč največjo naložbo v tem kraju. Škotsko družinsko podjetje BSW...

What fans lose when there’s more money in football

There is only one thing more worrisome than the appearance of sporting matters on the business pages of newspapers; this is when they also start...

Urbana knjižna omara v Celju navdušuje

Dijaki Srednje šole za gradbeništvo in varovanje okolja so v Cankarjevem letu na Savinjsko nabrežje v Celju, kjer je veliko sprehajalcev,...

Zavržena Štefanečeva ovadba zoper Sedlarjevo

Okrožno državno tožilstvo je zavrglo kazensko ovadbo zaradi suma poneverbe, ki jo je komisija za preprečevanje korupcije (KPK) vložila zoper...

(VIDEO) S strastjo in vetrom do rekorda

S 302,11 kilometri letenja brez pristanka se je uspešno končal podvig štirih Slovencev, v katerem so Jošt Napret, Primož Suša, Dušan Orož in...

Kakšnih sto let smo na Dunaju zadaj

Bila je na zaključnem koncertu letošnje sezone mariborskega cikla s šestletno tradicijo Carpe artem. Bil je prvi nastop violinistke Petre...

Obredno klanje: Ustavno sodišče zavrnilo muslimansko skupnost

Na ustavno sodišče se je pritožila Slovenska muslimanska skupnost, ker da jim je otežen dostop do mesa obredno zaklanih živali, ki je v...

Thai pro-democracy protesters arrested as fatigue on junta rule grows

THAI police detained at least eight leaders of an anti-junta protest on Tuesday who had tried to mark the fourth anniversary of a coup by marching...

China may end child limits by end of 2018

HAVING imposed strict population control policies for decades, China may soon scrap all limitations on the number of children its citizens can...

‘We have propaganda in our brain’: A conversation on press freedom in Burma

MENTION “Myanmar government” to Yin Yadanar Thein, the co-founder of Free Expression Myanmar, and she asks back: “Which government? The NLD...

Kaj nam je sporočil ameriški veleposlanik

Veleposlanikovo sporočilo je bilo, da bi se morali Slovenci odločiti, ali so »njihov interes… demokratične vrednote Zahoda, svobodni trg ali so...

Iran sanctions -- dreaded deja vu for Asia

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Can Multiparty Democracy Work in Multiethnic Malaysia?

PENANG – On May 9, Malaysia’s political canvas was redrawn with a single election. By returning the 92-year-old Mahathir Mohamad to the job of...

What do Iraq’s election results mean for Turkey?

Compared to the past, Turkey did not take sides in the Iraqi general elections held this month, according to Bilgay Duman from Ankara-based Center...

Now that Malaysia has a new government, the real work begins reforming the country

THE euphoria over the change of government in Malaysia is unlikely to die down soon. In fact, the honeymoon period for Prime Minister Mahathir...

Legalise it? There is no harm-free cannabis policy

THE media often present cannabis policy as a simple choice: either cannabis is harmful to users, especially adolescents, and so should be...

A Bilateral Foil for America’s Multilateral Dilemma

NEW HAVEN – The good news is that the United States and China appear to have backed away from the precipice of a trade war. While vague in detail,...

The Debt Challenge to African Growth

WASHINGTON, DC – Sub-Saharan Africa is confronting a pronounced rise in public debt. At the end of 2017, average public debt in the region was 57%...

What changed after the Lebanese elections?

Not many Lebanese people needed to wait for the results of the parliamentary elections to realise that Hezbollah triumph. They also did not need to...

Iz naše male države blizu magične meje

Dvajset let ima in 16 turnirskih zmag med profesionalkami. Lani je v Bendigu v Avstraliji osvojila prvo na 60.000-dolarskem ITF-turnirju (nagradni...

Portorož tri dni gosti največje IT strokovnjake

"Če danes niste med prvimi, tvegate to, da vas morda jutri ne bo več," je v uvodnem nagovoru ob otvoritvi letošnje NT Konference, ki je že 23....

"Srce me je vleklo"

Najboljši slovenski smukač, 27-letni Mariborčan Boštjan Kline, je v teh dneh - na dopustu. Po turbulentni lanski sezoni in nemirnem nadaljevanju,...

Na žalost mislil le na Tour

Bil je svetovni prvak med mlajšimi člani, eden največjih potencialov, kar jih je slovensko kolesarstvo imelo, zmagal je denimo na generalki za...

The last Ottoman generation

‘The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East’ by Michael Provence (Cambridge University Press, 314 pages, $30) The...

Hisenseju že četrtina Gorenja

Vpogled v delniške knjige kaže, da je Skupina Hisense, ki je objavila prevzemno namero za večinski delež Gorenja po ceni 12 evrov za delnico, na...

Mier, ktorý vraj nebol

Prvý Trumpov minister zahraničných vecí Rex Tillerson zdecimoval americkú diplomaciu úspornými opatreniami a neschopnosťou nájsť ľudí...

Memo to Israel: Lebanon is not Hezbollah, Gaza is not Hamas

Israeli public relations efforts to turn attention away from inconvenient realities and distract public opinion rest in large part on promoting...

When nation-states fail, moderate voices are silenced

The image of the angry man holding a little girl in one arm while violently abusing Yiannis Boutaris, the 75-year-old mayor of Thessaloniki with...

How BJP's ascendancy stumbled in India's south

Never has British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's quip about a week being a long time in politics appeared more apt. A week ago, leaders of India's...

The Rohingya's hope for justice lies with the ICC

When I visited Bangladesh a few weeks ago, I heard heart-wrenching stories from some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people who have fled...

Why the NYT is really wrong on Kashmir

On May 18 , the New York Times published an editorial entitled "A long shot in Kashmir". The editorial completely misrepresents the nature of the...

BAMF scandal – Keep calm and investigate

Nothing rattles Germans quite as much these days as immigration and asylum issues. So as Jens Thurau comments, the failures by the Federal Office...

Hidrogeología: una importante herramienta para combatir la escasez de agua

El mundo está viviendo un momento crítico debido a la falta de agua y Chile no se queda atrás. Recientes estudios oficiales precisan que 61...

Podvoz v Ljubljanski: Zavrnili milijon evrov cenejšo ponudbo

Predvidoma v prihodnjem mesecu bi lahko ministrstvo za infrastrukturo podpisalo pogodbo z izvajalcem gradnje cestnega podvoza pod železniškimi tiri...

Tackling reforms of doctor’s work style

How can work style reform be implemented for doctors, for whom long working hours have become common practice? A commission of experts under the...

DMZ sees tourism boom after Inter-Korea Summit

BARELY a month after the inter-Korean summit, the positive effects can already be seen. The post DMZ sees tourism boom after Inter-Korea Summit...

#20TahunReformasi: Celebrating 20 years of Indonesian democracy

ON Sunday, Malaysia’s newly freed former opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim visited Jakarta upon the invitation of former Indonesian president BJ...

Why Reinvent the Monetary Wheel?

LONDON – Slumps have always been boom times for monetary experiments, and the economic collapse of 2008-2009 was no different. Underlying this...

North Korean Action for US Words?

DENVER – Just days ago, the planned summit in Singapore between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un seemed to be hanging...

John Holdren

More than a year after Donald Trump became U.S. president, science policy in the United States has been effectively gutted. Trump has pledged huge...

The new face of Iraq: a communist woman

Analysis. A Communist Party candidate named Suhad al-Khateeb won Najaf, the holy city of the Shiites. She represents a fresh political landscape in...

Obcestni nasmehi so kilavi obeti

V treh ptujskih volilnih okrajih kandidati za državnozborske volitve nastopajo na 24 listah. Med bolj ali manj znanimi, lokalnimi kandidati za...

Maribor za (Ne)mariborčane, 1. del: Mesto festivalov

Poleg posameznih koncertov in repertoarja različnih gledaliških hiš so stalnica poletno-jesenskega kulturnega dogajanja v mestu ob Dravi...

Diet needs to move fast in light of latest twist in Kake scandal

The latest development in the unfolding Kake Educational Institution scandal has dealt another major blow to the credibility of Prime Minister...

A reality check on Korea nuclear talks

When President Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in first agreed to meet in Washington Tuesday, they seemed to genuinely...

What to believe? Official records, or more of Abe’s Kake denials?

Having just read the latest Kake scandal documents submitted to the Diet by the Ehime prefectural government, I thought this could be the stuff of...

Candidate lists cannot please everyone

Every political party has its unique internal power balance. Some consider their performance within the party, some look at what they can bring to...

Why are Russia and Iran avoiding a war with Israel?

Israel can do anything to Syria that it considers necessary to protect its own security and interests without fear of reactions beyond the...

Haaretz Cartoon

Controversy was sparked this week when Israelis were told that in order to handle the drought, they ought to cut back on their time in the shower. ...

More Palestinians Will Die Unless Gaza Becomes Livable

Only lifting the blockade, restoring funding to UNRWA and enabling Gaza to have viable electricity, water and sewage systems can weaken Hamas and...

Amnesty International: Rohingya militants massacred dozens of Hindus

THE Rohingya militant group Arsa killed dozens of Hindu civilians and abducted others during an attack in Rakhine state last August, according to a...

Celjani, bojte se Zahovića!

Še vedno lahko upajo, še vedno lahko računajo. Nogometaši Maribora bodo v zadnji krog sezone v prvi ligi prinesli še ulovljivi dve točki...

Conte, 5 Star’s pick for premier, promoted a bogus medical treatment

Analysis. The law professor Giuseppe Conte, a lawyer for the 5 Star Movement campaign team, gained the party’s favor when they both promoted a...

Asia must overcome its timidity on the world stage and fill the void left by US

There has been a long-standing tendency to predict the demise of US global power. There was the humiliating US withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975, and...

MTT Tekstil: 19 parcel in 14 stavb na več kot 4 hektarjih naprodaj za 2,7 milijona evrov

Stečajni upravitelj Milorad Vidović vse do 20. julija letos prodaja velik kompleks nepremičnin v Melju, ki so v lasti stečajnega dolžnika MTT...

Pokojnine na dražbi: kdo da več

"Ni kruha, ni miru", "Za dostojne pokojnine", "Manj reševanja bank, več dostojnih pokojnin", to je le nekaj parol jeznih upokojencev, ki so marca...

Why foreign investors should heed the call of MSCI’s inclusion of A shares

The internationalisation of China’s equity market is about to receive a major symbolic boost as the Morgan Stanley Capital Index (MSCI) will soon...

Michael McFaul's memoir: Yesterday's man rages against the dying of the light

SAINT PETERSBURG - As Theresa May might say, it’s “highly likely” that Michael McFaul, given he’s a professional scholar, is familiar with the...

Fenomen Luke Dončića: Ko zgreši še Gogi ...

Še je živ spomin na Lille 2015. Komajda smo se novinarji in navijači iz Zagreba preselili tja, že smo se lahko obrnili proti domu. Poraz...

How the rising dollar affects your budget

I don’t want to begin by saying the U.S. dollar has “broken a record” because it has broken its own record many times. But let me at least say:...

Posvet v državnem svetu: Skrb za nacijo ali za moderne nacionalizme?

Jutri se bo v državnem svetu odvil posvet, ki predvideva, da slovenski narod izumira, in se sprašuje, kako to preprečiti. Na posvet vabita...

Trump’s Talk of Sanctions Is a Dead-end. What He’s Really Pushing Is War Against Iran

From Cuba and Panama to North Korea and Libya, it's clear that sanctions don't bring down authoritarian regimes. But what does often follow a...

Saying sorry isn't enough, Mark Zuckerberg

The European Parliament has embarrassed itself by letting Mark Zuckerberg off the hook so easily. The Facebook CEO apologized again, but only clear...

Government points finger at foreign factors for Turkish Lira’s plunge

At around 3.00 a.m. on May 23 the Turkish Lira suddenly fell to 4.83 against the U.S. dollar, at a time when not only Turkey but also European and...

US and China cannot escape technology war

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Remote control repression: Israel tested its latest weapons against the Great March of Return

Over the course of the Great March of Return protests which started on 30 March, 115 Palestinians were killed and a further 13,000 were injured....

V ozadju prodaje bioplinarne se odvijajo nenavadni posli

Čeprav je na jesenski dražbi Bioplinarne Gjerkeš podjetje Bio gea iz Šempetra za objekte s kmetijskimi zemljišči ponudilo 3,4 milijona evrov,...

Milanič bo pesimistom navil ušesa

Pred derbijem z Olimpijo so bili za nogometaše Maribora izračuni, kako do naslova prvaka, precej bolj enostavni. Olimpija jih je z zmago v...

Malčki, ki ponagajajo tudi velikim

Mariborski strateg Darko Milanič je po porazu na večnem derbiju v Ljudskem vrtu med drugim dejal, da je letošnje državno prvenstvo pokazalo, da je...

The world according to Trump and Xi

NEW DELHI – The world’s leading democracy, the United States, is looking increasingly like the world’s biggest and oldest surviving autocracy,...

Where the water is

ONTARIO – In many parts of the world, there are simply no more conventional freshwater resources available to meet growing demand. Beyond...

(INTERVJU)  Matej Tonin: Na tem svetu je bila konkurenca vedno dobro

Plačajo v Sloveniji najbogatejši premalo davkov? "V Sloveniji je zelo malo bogatih. Ker se mi zdi, da se znajo zlasti bogati super davčno...

Grema na Kafe z Boštjanom Krambergerjem: Zaprti Lent bo potreboval dogajanje

Prvič smo bili na kavi na Lentu, ravno v času, ko so mariborski mestni svetniki sprejeli odločitev, da bo do leta 2020 nabrežje ob Dravi zaprto...

Sojenje zdravniku Ivanu Radanu: Izvedenec eksperiment izvedel na prašičih

Na današnjem sojenju zdravniku Ivanu Radanu, obtoženemu umora štirih bolnikov iz morilske sle, neupravičenega snemanja, zlorabe uradnega položaja...

Turkey and the Circular Economy

To what degree are we against new economic models that we have started to encounter more frequently, like the New Plastics Economy and the Circular...

Who will pull the strings of Turkish diplomacy after the election?

With just a month to go until the snap elections, all political parties are set to finalize their election manifestos, outlining the fundamental...

The EU prescribes ASEAN type ‘connectivity’ for the Balkans

My last article on the Balkans titled “Why is [Emmanuel] Macron skeptical about playing Ode to Joy for the Balkans?” ended with the following...

MP candidate lists a setback for women in Turkish politics

  Candidate lists for the snap parliamentary elections on June 24, which will be held together with the presidential election, show a possible...

One Israeli-Arab Protester's Knee Is Now a Litmus Test for Patriotism

Jafar Farah's knee is now the milestone that marks the boundary between the Jewish right and Jewish left

Swimming as usual when the tide goes out

Those behind the rise in the exchange rates, which has been experienced not only over the past couple of months but in the past five years, are “...

How Dutch Satirical TV Became the Latest 'anti-Israel' Enemy

In a world in which you’re either ‘for’ or ‘against’ us, it's clear where you stand when you present a parody of Netta Barzilai

Trump Pushes Sanctions to Trigger Regime Change in Iran. It Just Won't Work

Against authoritarian regimes in countries from Cuba and Panama to North Korea and Libya, democracies have tried time and again to trigger change...

The Freedom to Educate

The widespread surprise that follows nearly every report about Israeli students’ performance on international tests is mostly indicative of the...