State’s credibility at stake over new refusal to probe land sale scandal

The Diet on March 27 enacted the fiscal 2020 budget, designed to finance more than 100 trillion yen ($925 billion) in government spending for the...

Uživajte na vesoljski ladji

Kapo dol novi vladi in njenemu šefu. V dveh tednih je vse naredila tako, kot piše v priročnikih. Zamenjati moraš ključne ljudi, predvsem tiste...

Reševanje polkovnika Kurtza

Letalo je priletelo iz smeri Maribora in nizko preletelo Muro. Za njim sta ostali dve beli sledi na jasnem nebu, kot dve črtici kokaina na...

Thoughts on Jury Duty

Earlier this month, just before the new coronavirus shut down all large gatherings in my state, I reported to my county courthouse for a week of...

COVID-19 transmission: What we know

New York – There is not yet an ironclad scientific consensus on exactly how the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is spreading, but experts...

Coronavirus: why Xi should do a Trump and hand out cash to cooped-up Chinese

Washington’s US$2 trillion stimulus bill to combat the slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic is truly impressive for both its scale and the...

Zakaj so čefurji v karanteni?

Sve je to izmišljeno,« ponavlja Radovan vsake tri minute tiskovke, kao da ima vklopljen alarm.

Usodni trenutek

Dnevi so resnično podobni vojnim. Vse je zvedeno na čakanje. Med drugim čakanje tistega končnega, vrnitve k temu, čemur rečemo normalno,...

Why nobody mentions universal basic income

London – When you lock the people down (to save their lives), you inevitably close down a lot of the economy as well. And the lockdown will...

Our Finest Hour

MADRID – As many readers may know, I am currently hospitalized in Madrid after having tested positive for COVID-19. My recovery has been slow, but...

Amazon's Alexa now offering to diagnose coronavirus in happy marriage of Big Tech with Big Brother

‘Doctor’ Alexa is making house calls, Amazon has revealed, boasting its voice assistant now allows users to check their “risk level” for...

How many deaths can we afford?

Just two weeks into this crisis some are actually calculating how many deaths society can accept to salvage the economy. For DW's Henrik Böhme,...

Are we addicted to coronavirus statistics?

Figure1 A local medical staff member, left, hugs a member of a medical assistance team from Chongqing on March 23, before the team departed after...

Politicians and specialists in the time of the coronavirus

For decades, political regimes around the world have been keen to achieve the elements of strength for their countries, arming themselves as much...

Bolsonaro, a danger to Brazil: ‘Staying home is for cowards’

Analysis. Even O Globo, which played such a large role in his election, said Jair Bolsonaro didn't care about the welfare of Brazilians. written by...

Japanese WWI POW camp stood out for civility toward prisoners

The city of Naruto in Tokushima Prefecture is famous for its "uzushio" tidal whirpools that form in the Naruto Strait in the Seto Inland Sea.  But...

Brez gledališča

Kar nekaj prijateljev, s katerimi sem se zadnje dni pogovarjal po telefonu ali si elektronsko dopisoval, mi je zaskrbljeno potožilo: vse bo morda...

Hamas politically active to combat COVID-19 in the Gaza Strip

Once the first infections with the coronavirus were announced in the Gaza Strip, Hamas showed intense political engagement by making contacts with...

Mission impossible: avoid a coronavirus outbreak in Yemen

Analysis. On the five-year anniversary of the start of the war in Yemen, medical teams there report no coronavirus cases, and flights to and from...

Odors of Time and Place

I've heard that covid-19 can eliminate taste and smell. That would be awful! Life can be a soup of smells, some lovely as a rose in the garden or...

Voham diktaturo!

To je samo ena od duhovitih akcij, ki te dni potekajo v mestu (Ljubljani), lahko pa bi tudi kje drugje: potrebna je samo fotografija ali kratek...

Israel under cover of the coronavirus crisis

The populations of many countries the world over are right now living under unprecedented quarantine measures and restrictions on movement. The...

Writing a greener story in Asia and the Pacific

Rising economic prosperity and poverty reduction may not tell the whole story of progress in Asia and the Pacific. Telling signs in the natural...

Why India, not the US or EU, will be the world’s main battlefield in the fight against Covid-19

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the unprecedented move on Tuesday to put “the entire country on lockdown” for three weeks until...

Gantz Abandoned the Camp

Until Thursday, most Israelis believed that Kahol Lavan Chairman Benny Gantz ran for prime minister in order to replace Benjamin Netanyahu. On...

Viral Inequality

Economic Policies to Combat COVID-19 in Africa

WASHINGTON, DC – The coronavirus pandemic could not have come at a worse time for Africa. Despite improved macroeconomic management over the last...

Turkey and the West remain far apart

The killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in an airstrike last month in Syra’s Idlib Province not only brought Turkey and Syria to a state of undeclared...

White Helmets use Covid-19 crisis to further US Coalition regime change agenda in Syria

Five cases of coronavirus have now been reported by the health ministry in Syria. The country is subject to a curfew from 6pm to 6am as of March...

(STRAN 210) Pismo samemu sebi

Ko si svoje zadnje besedilo oddal, je bila stvar že tu, ampak dojeli je še nismo zares. Ko je bil tekst objavljen, nas je konkretno butnila v fris....

Letters to the Editor: Don't Put Israeli Democracy in Self-imposed Quarantine

False, outrageous on Italy’s treatment of aged In response to “In Italy’s Coronavirus Crisis, the Elderly are Left to Die. Will Trump let...

Our phones can serve as a virus tool

NEW YORK – Almost everyone these days carries a device that tracks their movements and shares that information with an array of companies. They...

Is the pandemic a moment of promise or peril?

The defining characteristic of our world is its fluidity. Whether the context is international relations, new political and business practices that...

Leave the COVID-19 data analysis to the experts

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS – One of the noteworthy aspects of our current coronavirus moment is the rapid proliferation of self-appointed data...

Virtual workplace

By Kim Jong-nam The coronavirus has been causing unprecedented changes to organizational cultures. Many corporations have chosen to have their...

Friendship is about loyalty, not laws. Should it be policed?

Wild Bill Hickok (third from left) alongside the author’s great-great uncle Sheriff Plunkett (right) at Deadwood in 1906. From Deadwood: 1876-1976...

Some words of wisdom to help pull us through the pandemic

Earlier this week, Shiga Prefecture received a gift of 20,000 face masks from China's Hunan province. In the shipping box was a message quoting a...

Covid 19: The Ultimate Foreign Affair

A media that justif ies its failure to cover the world by claiming that Americans are ‘not interested’ in foreign affairs, now mocks Trump...

Haaretz Cartoon

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Systems must be built quickly to respond to surge in virus cases

In response to a spike in new coronavirus cases in Tokyo, Governor Yuriko Koike has asked residents in the capital on March 25 to work from home...

Not 2008 perhaps, though worse for a time with silver linings

For better and for worse, this is not quite 2008. For the world economy, the current crisis looks set to be deeper but shorter than the financial...

Five Principles for the Pandemic

BUENOS AIRES – The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust the world into a health and economic crisis of a magnitude that few could have anticipated but...

After Faustina Tay’s death, time is up for the kafala system in Lebanon

Between 3 and 4am on 14 March, 23-year-old Ghanaian Faustina Tay’s body was found in a car park under her employer’s fourth-storey home in...

From a NY Virus Epicenter, I Wonder When, If, I'll See My Children in Israel Again

In his timeless words of the 12th century, Yehuda HaLevi wrote, "My heart is in the East, and the rest of me is at the edge of the West." In these...

A Gender Lens for COVID-19

NEW YORK – When pandemics strike, world leaders and health responders must adapt quickly to the looming threat. Often the last factor they consider...

How Africa’s Economies Can Hedge Against COVID-19

JOHANNESBURG – In 2018, 44 countries signed the African Continental Free Trade Area at an extraordinary summit in Kigali. There are now 54...

The COVID-19 Weakest Links

SINGAPORE – No health system in the world has the surge capacity to cope with an influx of tens of thousands of patients in a matter of weeks, as...

Earth Hour reminds us tackling climate change needs gender equality

We need to boost role of women in forestry and agriculture in Asia