Taming the Tech Monster

BRUSSELS – When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the European Parliament in May, he boasted that his company pays tens of thousands...

1953 Iran coup – a crime authored in London and Washington

For on this day, the country’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, was overthrown at the hands of Washington and London. It...

Obisk urgence po plačilu za petino manjši

Gneče in s tem povezane slabe volje tako pri določenih pacientih kot pri zdravstvenemu osebju je od začetka avgusta v Urgentnem centru Celje...

Janša je danes molčal

Predstavniki SDS, ki je na volitvah dosegla dvakrat več glasov kot Lista Marjana Šarca, se danes v razpravi o kandidatu za mandatarja niso...

Židan: Ni pomembno, če bomo že danes zamenjali predsednika DZ

Slovenija bo danes po pričakovanjih dobila predsednika prihodnje slovenske vlade. Mandatar za sestavo nove vlade bo skladno z napovedano podporo...

‘Disaster Capitalism’: Corporations cashing-in on typhoon tragedy in Philippines

FIVE years after the devastating Typhoon Haiyan ripped through central Philippines, vulnerable victims are facing another threat from the very...

Ahwazi prisoner has permanent spinal damage after Iran regime torture

Ahmad Kaabi, a political prisoner in Ahwaz, was tortured so severely after his detention for attending a protest in 2011 that he has suffered...

Japan's medical school scandal must prompt health care funding debate

How the Najib scandals derailed the future of Malaysia’s rail network

Public transit programs in the Kuala Lumpur region made significant gains under Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak, but revelations about...

The truth about Corbyn and the Rabaa massacre

Desperate people do desperate things. They often discredit themselves and undermine their causes. Jeremy Corbyn’s critics fell into this trap...

What really lies behind the US-China trade war

The trade war between China and the US is actually not about trade. It is driven by two important long-term developments simultaneously in play in...

Umor in poskus umora: Sosed slišal grožnjo "še mamo bom"

Kaj se je na letošnji dan žena premaknilo v glavi 38-letne Mariborčanke Medihe Hromadžić, da je z nožem najmanj 48-krat zabodla sestro...

(FOTO) Do 13. slovenske vlade - zgodovina, dejstva, številke ... 

- Vlado, ki je bila prva demokratična, izvoljena po večstrankarskih volitvah, so sestavljale stranke, združene v koaliciji Demos. - Peterle je bil...

Deklina zgodba ne potrebuje reklame, samo boljši termin

Čeprav so televizijske serije v zadnjih petih letih doživele revolucijo, čeprav so postale tako dobre, da tudi resnim filmofilom zmanjkuje časa...

Konec nejevolje: promet na cesti Maribor-Hoče bo sproščen še danes

Štiripasovnica med Mariborom in Hočami je trenutno mesto preklinjanja, žuganja in nejevolje. Cestne barikade, nedelujoči semaforji in zaprti...

Marjan Batagelj: Upamo, da politika ne bo uničila gospodarstva in podjetništva 

Marjan Batagelj, predsednik gospodarskega interesnega združenja Klub slovenskih podjetnikov (SBC): "Upamo, da politika ne bo uničila gospodarstva...

China to monitor South China Sea in real-time… from space

BEGINNING next year, China will start launching a series of satellites to monitor all vessels in the disputed South China Sea, especially near...

Malaysia repeals controversial, short-lived ‘fake news’ law

MALAYSIA has repealed the controversial Anti-Fake News Act on Thursday, barely five months after the law was passed and widely criticised for...

There's a Reason the Opposition Didn't Attend the Nation-state Protest

We believe Israel must be both a Jewish and a democratic state, and I cannot support any formulation that gives priority to either of these values...

Putin Overplays His Hand

DENVER – The Kremlin’s foreign policy increasingly seems to rest on the assumption that all countries are as corruptible as Vladimir Putin’s...

Mystery shrouds extradition of Egypt imam from Spain

On 1 June Spanish police injected Dr. Alaa Mohamed Said with anesthetic, beat him and bundled him onto a plane bound for Egypt. For two days his...

The Israelis do not abide by agreements, understandings or charters

The Israelis do not abide by truces or understandings, and this has always been the case with the Arabs since 1948. How many times did the Israelis...

Israeli army committed war crimes on Black Friday

Chief Israeli Military Advocate General Major General Sharon Afek has decided to close the case on the Israeli aggressive attacks carried out...

Cene na mariborski tržnici: Koliko stanejo slive

Poleti, predvsem avgusta, v Sloveniji dozori in dozoreva največ zelenjave in sadja. Zdaj je čas breskev, marelic, fig, malin, robid, brusnic,...

Če bi pred 8 leti v bitcoin vložili sto dolarjev, bi danes imeli 200 milijonov

Takoj ko je Wall Street začel posvečati več pozornosti bitcoinu, so se pojavili novi tekmeci v svetu kriptovalut, ki grozijo s preglasitvijo...

Preveliki apetiti napoti ptujski urgenci

Postopek za izbiro izvajalca gradnje ptujske urgence zaradi zahtevka za revizijo, ki ga je idrijsko podjetje Kolektor Koling vložilo zaradi...

(FOTO) Seja državnega zbora o imenovanju Marjana Šarca za mandatarja

Robert Balen Predsednik zmagovalke volitev SDS Janez Janša in poslanec Zvonko Černač. Robert Balen Predsednik SD Dejan Židan v pogovoru z...

On China's Muslim crackdown

Amid President Xi Jinping's consolidation of power in China, there are growing concerns over an ongoing crackdown on religious freedoms and basic...

What’s needed for regional revitalization

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will hold its presidential election next month. Under Japan’s parliamentary Cabinet system, the head of the LDP...

Miklavške pekarne: S šolskim letom odprta večina prodajaln

Prodajalne Miklavških pekarn podjetja A&V Lešnik - pekarno je 10. junija prizadejal katastrofalen požar in bosta zaradi tega prenehala delovati...

Izračun odškodnine po suši je sporen

Med 3668 kmeti, ki so vložili zahtevke, a odškodnine po lanski suši niso prejeli, je po oceni Petra Pribožiča, vodje kmetijskih svetovalcev...

Lendavske gorice: Nižji davek za vinsko klet? Pesek v oči

Civilna iniciativa za ohranitev vinogradov in vinogradništva v Lendavskih goricah, ki je v začetku lanskega leta zbrala 1201 podpis lastnikov...

Marjan Šarec: "Štela bodo dejanja, ne besede"

Novoizvoljeni predsednik nastajajoče 13. slovenske vlade Marjan Šarec je danes v državnem zboru zagotovil, da ima pogum, vztrajnost in da se ne...

Kdo bo predsedoval celjskemu sodišču?

Celjsko okrožno sodišče le še dva tedna uradno vodi dosedanji predsednik, sodnik svetnik Matevž Žugelj. Konec meseca se bo namreč upokojil....

Zločini, ki so pretresli vero

Vatikan je v četrtek izrazil "sram in žalost" glede poročila ameriškega vrhovnega sodišča v Pensilvaniji, ki ugotavlja, da so duhovniki...

Kamienok do mozaiky

Napríklad o tom, kedy presne sa SIS dozvedela o únose vietnamského podnikateľa, ktorý podľa všetkého opustil schengenský priestor práve...

Ideálny a reálny svet

Politici vládneho a opozičného tábora sa odjakživa navzájom obviňujú z vynášania informácií, podľa toho, na ktorej strane politiky či...

Európska spojka

Alebo aktuálny prípad, keď ruskí diplomati podplácali gréckych činiteľov. Ich cieľom bol krach dohody o novom názve bývalej juhoslovanskej...

Hugh Cortazzi, ex-envoy and JT columnist, dies

Japan on Tuesday lost a dedicated friend with the passing of former British Ambassador to Japan and longtime Japan Times opinion columnist Sir Hugh...

When financiers can be agents of positive change

MANILA – Homegrown reforms with the backing of the people have the best chance of lasting. But multilateral development banks can also promote...

Is Turkey really looking for alternatives to the West?

In an opinion piece published in the New York Times on August 11, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey's partnership with the United...