The Freedom to Eat Chametz

Tonight Israel will celebrate the holiday of freedom and just like every year, the freedom of many hospitalized patients will be infringed on...

Syria, A Storm is Coming

War is coming in Syria. The decision has been made, the targets are outlined. Syria has had enough. The fake color revolution has done more than...

Facebook says it stored ‘millions’ of unencrypted Instagram passwords

"Millions" of Instagram users had their passwords stored in unencrypted form on internal servers, Facebook said Thursday, raising its original...

Mayday for American Protectionism

WASHINGTON, DC – When you try something for 99 years and the situation keeps getting worse, it is time to try something else. The United States...

Secrets and crimes: Gay South Korean soldiers trapped in legal bind

PRODUCTIVE and driven, he was a model army officer, but he had a secret: he was in a gay sexual relationship with a fellow soldier -- a crime under...

What Sudan tells us about 21st century coups

Barely a week before Zimbabwe’s military ousted President Robert Mugabe in November 2017, its top commander visited Beijing. Exactly what he...

How religion influences attitudes towards domestic violence

WE learned this month that Prime Minister Scott Morrison has pledged AU$10 million in the federal budget for couples counselling and mediation for...

Mahathir and the rise of political Islam

Mueller was supposed to be the Democrats' savior, but now they’re out for blood

This is America in the era of Russiagate. The partly-redacted, nearly 400-page report, delivered to Congress on Thursday afternoon, offered no new...

Battle for Tripoli: What Awaits Libya?

The sound of machine gun fire in Tripoli after the start of Khalifa Haftar’s military campaign to “liberate the city” is accompanied by a...

(BRANJE) Ali mariborska občina sploh ve?

Kot odziv na njegove izjave v Večeru 30. marca letos smo iz Iniciative Mestni zbor (IMZ) na župana Sašo Arsenoviča naslovili pismo, ki ga v...

Make nursing care facilities efficient, worker-friendly to attract personnel

Even while the need for nursing care services will rapidly increase, the nation’s working population will shrink. With limited human resources...

An Okinawa conference, 50 years later

KYOTO - Over the past couple of months, Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki, who was elected in September 2018 as an opponent of the planned relocation of...

The rising cost of Hun Sen’s strongman rule in Cambodia

PARIS - On April 4, a group of international buyers’ associations from the garment, footwear, sporting and travel goods industries sent a letter...

(Ne)smiseln konflikt države in Banke Slovenije

Objava osnutka zakona o postopku sodnega varstva nekdanjih imetnikov kvalificiranih obveznic bank (obvezničarjev) in javni odgovor Banke Slovenije...

Trump’s Iran sanctions decision to hinge on Saudi oil production

LONDON (Reuters) — The White House will have to weigh costs and benefits carefully before tightening sanctions on Iran and Venezuela further —...

Regime Change in Iran can only Come with Support of Ethnic Minority

[Raman Ghavami] Iran’s history shows that Iran's ethnic minorities have always been the Achilles’ heel for any regime. Without their...

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Tree named after great historian still blooms in his honor on campus

When I was in high school, a teacher told us that Japanese students of English in olden days tried to memorize English words and expressions by...

Yes, the Nation-state of the Jewish People

Peace, Forsaken

Brexit Delay: the Soviets Would Have Understood It

So the Brexit saga has taken another twist, and become even more confusing and uncertain. All we can predict is that whatever the UK government...

Capitalism’s Great Reckoning

Nuclear fuel removal is small step in cleanup at Fukushima

Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, has started removing radioactive fuel rods from the...

Netanyahu Means War

LONDON – After a bitter re-election campaign, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has secured his legacy as a leader more committed to...

Hospitalized children & dead ducks? The ‘official’ Skripal narrative goes completely quackers

Just when you thought the Skripal case couldn’t get any more Pythonesque, it just did. According to a report published this week in the New York...

Japan using new emperor, first lady's birthday to court Trump

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is scheduling a rushed visit to Washington to meet with President Donald Trump and celebrate first lady Melania...

Indonesia -- a nation redivided

The Monetization of Garbage

BEREA, KENTUCKY – As a child growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, in the late 1990s, I remember women roaming through my community and chanting in Yoruba,...

Open Arms gets go-ahead from Madrid, but barred from rescue missions

Report. The NGO is defiant: ‘For our part, we will continue to do what we have always done, namely respect the international conventions and...

Populists are targeting Western democracy

Yet again, a member of Germany's far-right populist AfD party has traveled to the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula. This is a deliberate...

Donald Trump: world’s greatest expert on… almost everything

PRESIDENT Donald Trump raised eyebrows when he told French firefighters to move "quickly" and possibly use aerial water tankers to save Notre Dame....

Trump Now Expects Payback From Netanyahu. It Could Blow Up the Middle East

Why are we so moved by the plight of the Notre Dame?

SCROLLING through news of the Notre Dame fire on social media feeds was like watching a real-time archive of grief in the making, as people...

The Case for a Global Constitution

NEW YORK – In my book The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics , I was eager to demonstrate how the methods that have emerged...

We Don’t Need a Bigger Particle Collider

FRANKFURT – Between Lake Geneva and the Swiss Jura, more than 100 meters (328 feet) below the surface, lies a circular tunnel, 27 kilometers (17...

No Democracy Without Peace in Israel

MADRID – Having secured a fifth term (and his fourth in a row) as Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu is on his way to surpassing David...

Time for emerging Asian powers to help set global rules

(BRANJE) Zakaj je nekaterim težko javno razpravljati o evtanaziji?

Zakaj je nekaterim težko javno razpravljati o evtanaziji v javnem zdravstvu? Za mnoge zato, ker menijo, da morajo biti odločitve ob koncu...

The Scariest Thing About Election Day

It may be easy for whites in the U.S. to install cameras in black neighborhoods – but how is it that cameras were installed by Likud supporters...