Air China charter hints Beijing is wind beneath Kim’s wings

A picture is worth a thousand words. The proverb sprang to mind when the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, smiling and dressed in a Mao-style suit,...

Hong Kong left huffing and puffing behind Singapore and the other ‘little dragons’

Besides the main feature of the melodramatic Trump-Kim summit, the geopolitical sideshows that have been playing out for weeks, if not months, are...

The Singapore Summit’s Uncertain Legacy

NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump returned from his short summit meeting in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jung-un in an exultant mood....

(FOTO) Maraton Savinja presegel meje Zgornje Savinjske regije

Kljub temnim oblakom, ki so se danes zjutraj zgrinjali nad Mozirjem, to ni bil razlog, da ne bi okoli 500 tekačev iz vse Slovenije prišlo na že...

Letters to the Editor: Ugly Americans and Bennett's Failures

The ultimate ugly American I’m American by birth. Throughout my many years and many travels, I’ve done my share of cringing at “ugly...

The real target of Trump’s trade war is ‘Made in China 2025’

Those who credit Donald Trump’s trade policy team with a modicum of strategic intelligence insist that the unfolding trade war is actually nothing...

The Soviet Origins of Russian Hybrid Warfare

This is an excerpt from The Sources of Russia’s Great Power Politics: Ukraine and the Challenge to the European Order. Download your free...

Rejecting humanitarian vessels is becoming an Italian policy

Report. The US Navy vessel Trenton spent four days anchored outside a Sicilian port with 40 shipwreck survivors on board, the latest victims of...

Punishing the Witnesses

On March 24, 2016, at the end of a terrorist stabbing in Hebron, Sgt. Elor Azaria shot in the head a Palestinian assailant who already lay wounded...

The Kim-Trump summit: the good, the bad and the ugly

CANBERRA – The words “historic” and “unprecedented” to describe the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim...

Suu Kyi is actively attempting to manipulate the UN

In the first meeting on June 13 between Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and Christine Schraner Burgener, the Burmese urged the freshly-...

Italian consequences for ending quantitative easing

Commentary. The only certainty is that the great promises of the Italian electoral campaign, now written into the “Government of Change contract,”...

Admit it: Trump’s Singapore date with Kim made us all safer

Let’s give credit where it’s due. Last Monday’s sit-down in Singapore between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un...

Mariborska tržnica: O prenosu stavbne pravice na sodišču

Dobrodelno od Trdkove do Portoroža

Leto dni je naokoli in slovenski kolesar, Mariborčan Simon Eržen, nekdanji večkratni državni prvak v BMX-u, zadnjih deset let avanturistični...

Rolerji, rolkarji, kolesarji in kotalkarji zasedli Maribor

Rolerji, rolkarji, kolesarji in kotalkarji so ob 16. uri na Trgu svobode začeli svojo pot na kolesi in koleščki. Parada se je podala na...

German coalition divided over refugee policy, raising ‘confidence vote’ threats

Analysis. The CSU is ready to break the alliance. Internal Affairs Minister Horst Seehofer has rejected Merkel’s latest compromise offer and...

What next after a vacancy tax on developers hoarding empty flats?

As expected, the city’s developers wasted no time in forming a united front to challenge the effectiveness of the coming vacancy tax on empty new...

We Won’t Stop Filming, We Won’t Stop Writing

The Knesset could act not just against the press, but against human rights groups and Palestinians, the last witnesses for the prosecution against...

Za zdrav duh v športnem telesu

Maribor je bil konec tedna športno obarvan. V petek, soboto in nedeljo je potekal drugi Maribor sport fest, včeraj pa so mesto zasedli še...

V Dobrovcah imajo zelo perspektivno ekipo

Nogometni klub Dobrovce bo prihajajočo sezono vendarle igral v nižji ligi, namreč v prvi mariborski medobčinski. Njihove upe na obstanek v tretji...

​Švica odnesla točko Braziliji: Ni še čas za sambo

Južnoameriška velikana se še nista prilagodila na Rusijo. Po Argentini je brez zmage na uvodni tekmi svetovnega prvenstva v nogometu ostala še...

(FOTO in VIDEO) Jeff Goldblum ima končno svojo zvezdo na Pločniku slavnih

Končno je tudi znani filmski igralec Jeff Goldblum dobil svojo zvezdo na hollywoodskem Pločniku slavnih (Walk of Fame). Svoj zahvalni govor je...

The Israelis Who Protested Against a Home Sale to Arabs Aren't Alone. They Have Friends in the Left

As long as the false separation persists between the good, clean and just (and white) left on one hand, and the ugly and racist (and brown) right...

What is behind the Aquarius refugee ship crisis?

On June 11, Italy's new Interior Minister Matteo Salvini blocked the Aquarius rescue ship carrying 629 refugees and migrants from docking at its...

Lies and the lying bureaucrats who tell them

SHIGA, PREFECTURE – Some time ago, a joke was circulating within the bureaucratic circle in Tokyo that went, “One cannot expect to become a...

Can Erdoğan win in the first round?Can Erdoğan win in the first round?

Key elections in Turkey are now six days away. The biggest question is whether President Tayyip Erdoğan will be re-elected in the first round on...

The story of Gaza is a story of neglect

Humanitarian, socioeconomic, political and security conditions in Gaza are inexorably worsening. The great majority of Gaza's two million...

What Washington doesn’t expect from Turkey’s snap elections

 It is difficult to say that the process leading up to Turkey’s snap elections on June 24 have received tremendous attention in the U.S. capital....

Červené karty

Načo potom slúži taký trest? Nuž, najčastejšie na sankcionovanie konkrétneho špióna pod diplomatickým krytím alebo diplomata, ktorý...

Can China innovate?

Fighting over a name

After months of negotiations, Alexis Tsipras and his counterpart Zoran Zaev, were able to sign a deal to end up a bitter dispute on the name of...

Did you learn something today?

By Hyon O'Brien Walter Isaacson's remarkable 2017 biography of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) concludes with a list of the key characteristics of...

Anger in politics

Unfortunately, there was a deadly clash in the southeastern district of Suruç. The armed clash broke out when a delegation led by İbrahim Halil...

Sudan’s Al-Bashir’s may remain President for life

This week’s cabinet decision to put forward a new election law appears to support the view that some members of Sudan’s National Congress (NCP)...

Ahead of Turkey’s ‘biggest opinion poll’

  In one week we will see the results of the “biggest opinion poll,” which is how I define election results. We will then know whether a second...

Do as I say, not as I do for a more ‘exciting life’

I am just reading a fine collection of English-language short stories called You think it, I’ll say it. If you rephrase it as “You think it,...

A more independent MTR board is one solution to our rail woes

One reason the latest scandals over railway construction in Hong Kong came as such a shock is that they are eerily reminiscent of another era which...

The Six Things That the Palestinian Troops’ Crushing of Ramallah Protests Prove

Fatah is clinging with all its might to the rather meager power it extracts from running the PA under the vicious Israeli military regime

Audi A4: prepričal je predvsem quattro pogon

Terenski kombiji pravijo tem modelom, ki so bili precej popularni na začetku dobe izjemne popularnosti športnih terencev, brez katerih si zdaj...

V Dupleku vse nared za praznovanje

Vrhunec praznovanja v tako imenovanem Dupleškem tednu bo med 23. in 25. junijem, ko pripravljajo podelitev občinskih priznanj in večerno zabavo...

How Donald Trump is making China, not America, great again

“Art of the deal” my foot. I’m still picking my jaw up off the floor over what happened in Singapore this week. I can understand how the...

‘Thank God for Russia!’ Remembering when London & Moscow were allies

What lessons can be learned from the ‘Anglo-Russian agreement’ which played a key part in the defeat of Nazi Germany? The date: Monday, July 14,...