Why We Should Go Easy on the Saudi Crown Prince

For 50 years we’ve prayed for a key Arab leader who agrees to sign a significant pact with Israel. Such a leader has finally arrived.

Utrujeni na tribune

Ponekod so si že krvavo želeli dvotedenskega reprezentančnega premora, ko se bodo slovenski rokometaši podali v kvalifikacije za evropsko...

Opel upokojuje nekatere modele

Nemški Opel, ki je od lani znotraj koncerna PSA, ne bo nadomestil treh avtomobilov, in sicer karla, adama in cascado (kabriolet). To naj bi se...

Nabrušeni tako robniki kot tekmovalci

Konec tega tedna se na ledeniku Rettenbach nad Söldnom v Avstriji že tradicionalno začenja nova sezona v svetovnem pokalu alpskega smučanja. Na...

Êdna, etno skupina, ki obeta

V sodobni popularni glasbi se generalno sicer nadaljuje trend globalne unifikacije, a zadnjih nekaj desetletij ob tem vse bolj prodira zavedanje...

(INTERVJU) Gledam le interes Maribora, ne interesov strank

Po več letih praznine, ko Maribor ni imel mestnega arhitekta in tudi ne urbanistične komisije, ki bi jo župan resnično upošteval kot svoje...

Na dialóg treba dvoch

Keby sa v Európe nestal dialóg preferovaným riešením sporov, sotva by sa táto najnepokojnejšia oblasť sveta z prvej polovice 20. storočia...

A third gulf war? Unlikely but …

Are the United States and Iran headed for a direct military confrontation? The Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), a Tokyo-based independent...

Lessons from diplomatic and constitutional history

This is the first in a series of articles that were compiled from contributions by members of the Political and Diplomatic Review project of the...

America’s disturbing plunge into protectionism

WASHINGTON – The descent of American capitalism into a racket is being greased by professed capitalists in government, in collaboration with...

Lantau project not just a question of money

“Experts” for the government’s mega reclamation project for Lantau Island are out to paint its opponents as ill-informed and irrational,...

No October crash is imminent, despite stock market volatility

It has been a turbulent year for financial markets. But October has proved a particularly volatile month. In the space of eight trading sessions,...

What city’s women must learn about being strong and beautiful

Women, and some men, around the world are shaking up society’s traditional view of female beauty. In South Korea, an increasing number of women...

Khashoggi’s state of mind before his disappearance

I was lucky enough to have met Jamal Khashoggi on 29 September at MEMO’s conference during his last visit to the UK. I introduced myself to him as...

With voting over, Bhutan can woo China with India’s blessing

Bhutan’s latest election was fought on the domestic issues of corruption, rural poverty and income inequality, youth unemployment, external debt...

Dear critics: You may be right

By Casey Lartigue, Jr. After I began my professional career back in 1998, it didn't take long before I started receiving angry letters from...

Behind the Scenes / Young offenders study for return to society

Juvenile training schools (see below), group homes for boys aged 12 to 20 who have committed an act of delinquency, are promoting new initiatives...

Health warning: Your salt comes with a side of plastic

NEXT time someone asks you if you want salt with that, you might want to think twice. A new study, published in the journal Environmental Science...

How Abe can make TPP great again

Baseball brings Big Data to the mound to help with analytics

The bunt, the steal and the hit-and-run are actually all ill-advised, self-defeating tactics, as their success rates for an entire season are low....

US and China -- the great decoupling

Why aren’t there more Chinese in British politics?

The Chinese are greatly under-represented in British politics. According to the last census, there are 433,150 ethnic Chinese in Britain, 0.7 per...

The AI revolution: does it have to be China vs the US?

Worldwide demand for artificial intelligence technology is poised to increase dramatically. PwC estimates AI will add US$15.7 trillion to global...

Abdel Rahman Suwar Al-Dahab: A man whose achievements were gold

There were many unique aspects of the late leader Sheikh Abdul Rahman Suwar Al-Dahab’s character. He possessed unique approaches and orientations,...

Ken Livingstone: Stop double standards, sanction Saudis for Yemen war, kidnappings & killings

After more than two weeks of lies and deception, Saudi Arabia has finally admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed, but it is clearly another...

How fetching water is holding back millions of women in India

Water collection in India is a woman’s job, irrespective of her physique – and there’s no respite, even when she’s menstruating, ill, or has...

Japan: Twitter user uncovers 80s TV commercials starring George Lucas

Japanese Twitter has unearthed a series of 1980s Japanese TV commercials featuring the American filmmaker George Lucas of Star Wars fame, singing...

Defining Diplomacy Down

NEW YORK – Some 25 years ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Harvard professor who in the course of his career served as United States ambassador to...

Scott Morrison’s apology to child sex abuse victims matters. Here’s why

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison issued a national apology to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse at Parliament House...

India’s #MeToo Movement Underlines Why Survivors Must Be Believed

In September 2018, a Bollywood actress, Tanushree Dutta, publicly recalled her encounter with Nana Patekar, her co-star on the set of the movie...

Pri plačilih za jutranje varstvo za učence 2. in 3. razreda šole vsaka po svoje

Osnovna šola je dolžna organizirati jutranje varstvo učencev prvega razreda, le zanje ga tudi financira ministrstvo za izobraževanje, znanost in...

Uslužbenci Sove naj bi danes zamrznili stavko

Neuradno smo izvedeli, da naj bi uslužbenci Slovenske obveščevalno-varnostne agencije (Sova) danes zamrznili belo stavko, ki traja že od...

Waste management: Asia can’t afford to make the same mistakes as Europe

AS Asia's cities continue to boom and the standard of living increases across the region, the head of Antwerp's inter-municipal waste management...

Neutralizing the Legal Advisers

The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Monday will begin debating a bill that would give every minister control over the search...

How India's Modi Chose Moscow's S-400 Missiles, Defied Trump and Spurned Israel

Despite Trump's threat of sanctions, India's Prime Minister Modi has signed a massive arms deal with Russia, signaling that, despite close defense...

Online attacks come with the territory

Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is starting to sound like Donald Trump. The United States president has a habit of tweeting rude and un-presidential...

Impatient Hongkongers? Blame the MTR

Patience is a virtue, so they say. But I have trouble getting a handle on that concept in Hong Kong, which surely is among the most impatient...

Slavoj Žižek: Will our future be Chinese 'capitalist socialism'?

Official Chinese social theorists paint a picture of today's world which basically remains the same as that of the Cold War. Thus, the worldwide...

The real meaning of smoothing over Jamal Kashoggi’s death

SINGAPORE – Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s gruesome murder raises fundamental questions that go far beyond Middle Eastern geopolitics. They go...

strah in molk

V vasi so bili italijanski vojaki, ki pa se jih ni bilo posebej bati, je pripovedoval. Drugače pa je bilo z domačimi. Pri teh je bil strah na...

How Saudi Arabia uses terror to suppress the Muslim Brotherhood

Interview. Massimo Campanini, an Islamic studies scholar, connects Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in Istanbul with the Saudi policy of intimidating the...

Far-right faction tests the unity of Italy’s coalition government

Commentary. The most worrying aspect is that all the polls show that the Lega is still gaining ground, in the face of this crisis of credibility...

Why Hong Kong’s pan-democrats are better off without Lau Siu-lai

I never thought the words would come out of my mouth, and I hesitate to write them even now but here goes: the returning officer for Kowloon West...

Policista domnevno izsiljevala preprodajalce mamil

Nekdanja policista, brata Darko in Mario Nikolić, sta se znašla kot obdolženca na celjskem sodišču zaradi svojega domnevno spornega početja...

Volitve: Listi SDS in SNS z isto kandidatko za mestni svet

Ptujska volilna komisija je v petek pri pregledovanju evidentiranih imen kandidatov za mestne svetnike ugotovila, da se na listah stranke SDS in...

Estates’ empty spaces should be put to use

As the city’s biggest landlord, the Housing Authority plays a key role in meeting our housing needs. But instead of making the best use of its...