Zgodba o Lačnem Franzu: Sloni med porcelanom

Na tem albumu je nekaj skladb, ki so pokazale, v katere glasbene smeri bi se lahko razvili. Zelo popularen je bil videospot pesmi Jutri bom pujsa...

From Today – Open Season on Mendelblit

A number of legal experts, some of whom served in senior law enforcement positions – and whose views are light years away from those of Likud...

Tochigi town of Mibu resonates with sayings of Confucius

When I visited an elementary school in the town of Mibu in Tochigi Prefecture recently, I came across fourth-year pupils reciting Japanese...

For financial innovation

ICT capital comes to control internet-only bank Kakao Corp., the operator of Korea's leading messenger app Kakao Talk, has emerged as the largest...

New guidelines to rein in power harassment must protect workers

The government has decided on a draft outline of new guidelines to prevent workplace bullying known as “power harassment,” or “pawa hara,” in...

Putin Means Money

MOSCOW – In her 2014 book Putin’s Kleptocracy , the late Karen Dawisha argued that the key to understanding Vladimir Putin’s Russia is money....

Europe Needs Its Own Development Bank

LONDON – Europe needs a robust and agile development bank that can cooperate with, but also challenge, the Chinese institutions involved in the...

Rare bipartisan show of support for 5G technology

By Ann McFeatters WASHINGTON _ Amazingly, the Senate just sent a bipartisan request to the White House. In a hopeful if small sign that there are...

Understanding American deal: US always has its way, so far

U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a meeting inside the Cabinet Room at the White House on Nov. 19. Reuters-Yonhap By Oh Young-jin The way we handle...

International dereliction of duty

By Alex Gratzek As a student of history, I can't help but look on in horror as I see President Donald Trump's conduct of foreign affairs. He has...

Chinese scholarship in Korea

By Mark Peterson This article is in the series of "tribute" articles I've written lately. This time the person I want to honor is Na Gap-ju, my...

NYT's "Leaked" Chinese Files Story Covers For Terrorism

The New York Times has once again exposed itself as an organ of US special interests operating under the guise of journalism – contributing to...

Maltese businessman arrested in Daphne Caruana Galizia murder case

Report. A taxi driver caught in a money laundering case pointed to Yorgen Fenech as the person who orchestrated the murder of a journalist...

Myanmar town offers glimmer of hope for Muslims enduring ‘apartheid’

Htoo Maung sits down to lunch, sharing a bowl of traditional noodle soup with old friends, an ordinary act that has become extraordinary in...

Extreme Reactions to Pompeo’s Announcement Explain Demise of Israeli Left

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech triggered a wave of denunciations — in the United Nations, in the European Union and, of course, in...

Reversing the death of Venice

VENICE – Some of the worst flooding in Venice’s history has submerged some of the historic city’s renowned cultural sites, including St....

Japan and India — a special relationship

WASHINGTON – Japan and India are set to hold their inaugural “two plus two” defense and foreign ministerial dialogue on Nov. 30. The new two...

Africa needs The Gambia's leadership on human rights

On November 11, The Gambia filed a  case  against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violating the United Nations' 1948...

Turkey remains vital

By Arthur I. Cyr President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey visited Washington Nov. 13 to meet his counterpart in the United States, Donald Trump....

Xi Jinping's shooting STAR in Shanghai

Arrival of new board for tech stocks has yet to prove a real game-changer

Arson attacks are the latest escalation in America’s shadowy war against Iran

The recent protests in Iran and neighbouring Iraq are based on legitimate grievances. However, as has also happened in Iraq, there have been...

A Bosnian town reaches its limit, crammed with refugees barred from Europe

Reportage. This is how the migrants live in Bihac nowadays: a separate world, a foreign body lodged into the fabric of a community that is still...

Prince Andrew’s disastrous Epstein denial poses more questions than answers (VIDEO)

The Duke of York, known by some in the past as the party prince, has become a central figure in the scandal surrounding dead paedophile Jeffery...

Pope to address Thai youth on final full day of Bangkok visit

Pope Francis will meet Friday with teachers and students in Thailand's "small but vibrant" Catholic community on his final full day of a whirlwind...

Kauza Naď: Zrada či pomsta?

Nuž, keď Národná kriminálna agentúra (NAKA) tri mesiace pred voľbami obviní niekoho z trestného činu ohrozovania utajenej skutočnosti, tak...

Demand Israel stop its oppression of Omar Barghouti

For the last decade and more, Omar Barghouti has been one of the world’s most important Palestinian public intellectuals. A co-founder of the BDS...

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer — a battle is won, but the war isn't over

By offering to quit unless the party backed her, CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has bravely confronted her critics. But AKK's possible path...

Will Tamils overcome politics of fear to find new leadership?

THE overwhelming turnout by Tamil voters in North and East Sri Lanka to vote for Sajith Premadasa at the presidential election epitomised the...

Ambassador Sondland blew the impeachment inquiry wide open

The pundits and talking heads keep looking at the polls and noting that the dial on Donald Trump and the impeachment has barely moved. With the...

The Most Important Story You Missed in 2019

SEATTLE – According to the most recent tally, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal publish a combined total of...

Netanyahu, Go Home Now

Something momentous happened in Israel Thursday. Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit announced three indictments against Prime Minister Benjamin...

It’s Not Madonna and Messi Who Can Make Israel a More Normal Place

Sylvan Adams is a Jewish billionaire with an interesting strategy to his philanthropy. He believes that by bringing major sporting and music events...

The End of the Two States Solution Is Just a Myth

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s statement that the West Bank settlements are not necessarily “inconsistent with international law,” as...

Grenfell Tower contractor’s hiring for new project in London highlights neoliberal outsourcing nightmare

You couldn’t make it up, could you? Despite the secretary of state saying it should not bid for public works until investigations into the...

The problem with the Bosnian responses to Macron

In an interview with the Economist earlier this month, French President Emmanuel Macron called Bosnia and Herzegovina a "ticking time-bomb" and...

An Energy Transition with a European Touch

MADRID – Tackling climate change is a monumental challenge, but the leader of the foremost global power continues to wash his hands of the matter....

No 'revolution' without Palestine: A letter to Bernie Sanders

On Tuesday, November 12, Israeli forces  assassinated  Islamic Jihad Commander Bahaa Abu al-Ata, along with his wife, in their home in the...

The EU’s EV Greenwash

MUNICH – Germany’s automobile industry is its most important industrial sector. But it is in crisis, and not only because it is suffering the...

Dynamism, Innovation, and Germany’s Future

Kde žijú draky?

Väčšina ľudí je presvedčená, že zemeguľa je plochá a je stredom vesmíru. Kto by tvrdil opak, riskuje upálenie – však, Giordano Bruno?...

Lies Which the West Manufactures and then Consumes

After my work in the Middle East had finished, at least for the time being, I was waiting for my flight to Santiago de Chile. In Paris. I could...

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Sri Lanka's Muslims have reason to fear the new Rajapaksa era

On Saturday, Sri Lankans elected Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a former secretary of defence and brother of two-time former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, as...