Gradimo našo malo sosesko

"Ljubica moja zlata, kod si hodila?" me je ondan vprašala branjevka na naši mali tržnici v eni od mariborskih sosesk. "Saj veste, obveznosti,...

New international moon race could define humanity's future

Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off for the moon, a new space race is on. It is one that may affect the...

Likely arson at famed anime studio is truly heartbreaking

Producing a TV anime program week after week was considered a venture of unheard-of recklessness when renowned cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989)...

PNG leader wants deadline for emptying Australia asylum-seeker camp

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape called on Australia on Friday to set a deadline for relocating several hundred asylum-seekers who have...

Parties need concrete policies to promote diverse lifestyles

Parties have made noble-sounding campaign promises to support diverse values and lifestyles in their efforts to garner votes in the July 21 Upper...

Central-Bank Catch-22

Moon, Abe, do some art!

President Moon Jae-in and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan. AP-Yonhap By Oh Young-jin There are some myths...

Trump's racist Tweets: foretaste of toxic 2020

By Dick Polman White racism was at the root of Donald Trump's 2016 candidacy, and so it will be again in 2020. Either we decisively reject it at...

With ‘likes’ gone from Instagram, how will all those social media ‘influencers’ cope?

If you’re an Instagram fanatic, don’t freak out yet. The new hidden-likes feature is currently only being tested in a few countries, so you might...

Penta chcela podojiť štát, no narazila

On by však celú vec hnal až na súd, kde by svoje rozhodnutie zdôvodnil takto: „Mám v špajze skvelú čabajku, ale nemohol som si ju zobrať,...

Localization drive

Substituting imports with domestic products is easier said than done Korea's top economic policymaker has expressed determination to localize...

Point of no return

Seoul, Tokyo should refrain from head-on clash South Korea and Japan appear to be approaching the point of no return on their brewing confrontation...

From moon walk to space wars

NEW DELHI - Fifty years after astronauts first walked on the moon, space wars have gone from Hollywood fantasy to looming threat. Not content with...

Trump’s incoherent policy on India

CANBERRA - The distance from hubris to delusion is short and the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is bent on covering it in a sprint...

A Reform Opportunity for the IMF

NEW YORK – This month marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Bretton Woods agreement, which established the International Monetary Fund...

America stumbling towards civil war one terrible tweet at a time

Let’s begin by stating the obvious, and that is the Republicans and Democrats are presently locked in a fierce power struggle that seems destined...

Is a European army really so barmy?

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage was, to his credit, very critical of the NATO-led assault on Libya in 2011, which destroyed a prosperous country...

Yoo isn't really about Steve

By Jason Lim When we had a boy several years back, it was a surprise to me that my son was considered a Korean citizen although he was born in the...

After Yemen, the UAE’s next target could be Libya

Last week, the United Arab Emirates confirmed its troop drawdown from Yemen, which has raised questions about what Abu Dhabi’s next target will be....

Kto zo zamestnávateľov by robil za minimálnu mzdu?

Odbory navrhli výšku minimálnej mzdy vo výške 635 € v hrubom, čo zodpovedá odporúčaniu sociálneho výboru Európskeho parlamentu a,...

v gozdu ne vidimo več dreves

Res se dandanes lahko o marsičem pozanimamo po spletu, »stric Google vse ve«, kajne? Informacij je res ogromno, zato jih je toliko teže...

Spanilé jazdy bez hraníc

Z ich útrob ráno vyliezali spotení, nočnými štrekami vyčerpaní cestovatelia, ktorí sa dychtivo pozerali na predtým odopieraný svet. Okolie...

American women wets take on new war: national political office

By Andrea Plate Retired Lieutenant Colonel Amy McGrath served 20 years in the Marines, flew 89 combat missions and dropped bombs on al-Qaida and...

Point of no return

Seoul, Tokyo should refrain from head-on clash South Korea and Japan appear to be approaching the point of no return on their brewing confrontation...

Finland's cultural tradition

By Choe Chong-dae When President Moon Jae-in and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto met at a recent summit in Helsinki, the two agreed to establish a...

El riesgo que México adopte el vicio argentino

El riesgo de que México adquiera el vicio argentino de quedarse permanentemente atorado en un limbo de desempeño económico mediocre –peor al...

El pueblo de Nicaragua no celebra este año el 19 de julio

Se cumplen 40 años del triunfo de la revolución sandinista. Nicaragua no tiene nada que celebrar. Es una conmemoración trágica, porque una...

The rise of corporate nations

"There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of...

Are Central Banks Losing Their Big Bet?

ZURICH – In recent years, central banks have made a large policy wager. They bet that the protracted use of unconventional and experimental...

What Ethiopia needs is an independent prosecution

More than a year after his rise to power, the honeymoon period for Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has finally come to an end. Following the...

The Case for a Fiscal Fed

SANTA BARBARA – Like storm clouds on the horizon, signs of a global economic slowdown are gathering ominously. In the United States, the sugar...

A class struggle for the 21st century

Commentary. The proletariat is not a remote 19th century anthropological category, conjuring up factory workers with eyes full of soot. Today we...

We’ve Had It With Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will break the record this week for time in office, exceeding that of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. But as...

Israel's Right Wing Is Worse Than Europe’s

How could Turkey respond if US imposed sanctions over Russia’s S-400 delivery?

With the arrival at the Murted Airbase outside Ankara of Russian planes, over the past six days, carrying the S-400 missile defence system, the...

Se vrača stara ljubezen?

Nihče, ki ne pozna dobro mentalitete Srbov, ne more razumeti, v kolikšni meri so tako običajni državljani kot srbska intelektualna elita...

Tel Aviv: Jumping into the unknown

Since political matters, especially relations between countries, are not coincidental, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israeli...

Clergy for civil disobedience: ‘It is a Gospel-derived imperative’

Interview. An ex-bishop from Caserta, near Naples, calls for resistance to anti-migrant and anti-poor policies. ‘The Church, bishops, priests and...

Our Kind of Diplomat

STOCKHOLM – Our Man, the American journalist George Packer’s new 600-page biography of Richard Holbrooke, is a masterful book, not just for what...

Donald Trump’s America can chant ‘send her back’, but Asia cannot afford such xenophobia

US President Donald Trump’s recent jabs at four freshmen Democrats – telling them to “go back” and “help fix” the countries they came from...

US ban on Burma army chief not enough, says UN

A US travel ban on Myanmar's army chief and three other top officers for their role in orchestrating a crackdown against Rohingya Muslims does not...

Are Moonshots Still Possible?

Why solving the Korean Peninsula crisis needs to be an international effort

THE THREE key actors in the Korean Peninsula crisis are demonstrating why a solution should be anchored in an international coalition and...

Japan's Convenience Store Woman has lessons for retail tech