Israel Is Not a City of Refuge

On Tuesday morning, the Jerusalem District Court will hold a decisive hearing in a case that has cast a heavy shadow over Deputy Health Minister...

Haaretz Editorial

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High stakes: Myanmar’s Lady gambles image in Rohingya genocide lawsuit

From democracy champion to defending Myanmar against genocide charges, the shock decision by civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to face the UN's top...

Asian Correspondent Staff

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India’s lower house passes contentious nationality bill

India's lower house passed controversial legislation early Tuesday that will grant citizenship to religious minorities from neighbouring countries,...

Asian Correspondent Staff

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Female frontliners upend Hong Kong gender stereotypes

Chris Wong has transformed from a quiet student who used to blush when friends swore into one of the thousands of female frontliners battling...

Asian Correspondent Staff

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Palestine, and the nations’ memory

The month of November, full of painful memories, passed without many Arabs remembering that on 2 November 1917, Palestine was officially usurped...

Dr Amira Abo El-Fetouh

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Recovery disk a good tool to retrieve deleted sakura party list

A Japanese newspaper reporter's morning can start with "asamawari," which is journalism jargon for "making the morning rounds." This involves...

Vox Populi

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Arrogance of Abe administration marred Diet sessions in 2019

During the past two months, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration has avoided Diet debate on some important policy issues, showing little...

Editorial

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(STANOVANJSKA STISKA) "Mami, a se bomo selili?" me je pred kratkim vprašala 5-letna hči

"Mami, a se bomo selili?" me je pred kratkim vprašala 5-letna hči. "Ne bomo, končno smo našli stanovanje, kjer se prvič počutimo kot doma, vrtec...

Katja Štingl

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France’s Hypocrisy on ‘anti-Semitism’

A new peak in European hypocrisy, which was also a new nadir in its moral wretchedness, was recorded last week when France’s National Assembly...

Odeh Bisharat

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Israel's Most Sensitive Military Operations Are Top Secret? Apparently Not

Last week’s episode of the “Uvda” investigative TV magazine, about the botched heroic operation in Khan Yunis in November 2018, was a...

Yossi Melman

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Is Growth Passé?

NEW YORK – It’s clear: we are living beyond our planet’s limits. Unless we change something, the consequences will be dire. Should that...

Joseph E. Stiglitz

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The Policy Debate Europe Needs

SASKATOON – The eurozone is in a bind. Despite successive doses of monetary stimulus by the European Central Bank, inflation remains stubbornly...

Barry Eichengreen

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Netanyahu condenses Israel’s history into one sentence

A few days ago, Benjamin Netanyahu condensed the history of the Zionist state of Israel into one sentence: “These European countries should be...

Ibrahim Hewitt

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Brezčutni

Da slovenski pravni red v 21. stoletju živali obravnava kot stvari, je neetično in nazadnjaško. Končno smo pred tem, da se to stanje vsaj...

Jasmina Cehnar

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Collective Insanity Gives Netanyahu’s Right Wing a Crushing Advantage Over Center-left Rivals

Likud Minister Yariv Levin blamed Benny Gantz’s Kahol Lavan on Monday for plunging Israel into its third elections this year, which he described as...

Chemi Shalev

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Israel's Justice Minister Is Actually Netanyahu’s Long Arm in the Legal System

Once upon a time there was a finance minister named Yuval Steinitz, who sought a new head for the Israel Tax Authority. A search committee was...

Yuval Yoaz

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Trump’s Pitch to Israelis and Evangelicals: Make America Hate (Jews) Again

Just because Donald Trump actively and openly hates all people who happen not to agree with him – in particular, if they are women, Muslims,...

Bradley Burston

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Do not distort history

Documents show Japan's role in wartime sex slavery New evidence shows that the Japanese government was involved in forcing Korean women to serve as...

Editorial

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Diet must plug loopholes in flawed political funds law

The Political Funds Control Law is riddled with so many loopholes that it is often derided as “zaru ho” (law like a perforated basket). Unless...

Editorial

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Macron eyes European leadership

WASHINGTON – For three years, U.S. President Donald Trump has taken great glee in disrupting the NATO alliance. Now, French President Emmanuel...

Hal Brands

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Odchod ministerky Kalavskej: Strata dámy

Smer za posledné roky prišiel o mnohých strelcov, o pešiakoch ani nehovoriac, ale teraz vo finále stráca dámu. Andrea Kalavská sa rozhodla...

Martin Krno

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Horor v centre Bratislavy

Prvý argument pôsobí nepresne a druhý vyznieva ako výhovorka alebo zaváňa tým, ako keď niekto hľadá slová, prečo je niečo nemožné,...

Martin Krno

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Human cost of sanctions

By John Burton One of the ironies of Donald Trump's engagement policy with North Korea over the past two years, is that while he praises the "...

John Burton

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Japan's reordering of name format highlights global power shift

Shinzo Abe will become ABE Shinzo in official English texts as of Jan 1 2020

Peter Tasker

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Democrats play havoc with history, cite King Louis XVI in effort to impeach Trump

The ‘Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment’ is a pretentious 52-page history lesson that screams between the lines that not only are...

Robert Bridge

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Civilizational scourges

By Adam Borowski I'm sure you can come up with many examples of controlling individuals who want to turn everyone around them into psychological...

Adam Borowski

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OK, tail-end boomer

By Tom Purcell I don't blame millennials and Gen Z for mocking baby boomers with the trending "OK boomer" meme. I've had my issues with baby...

Tom Purcell

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How the US is Locking Horns with Russia in Libya

In a rather gate-crashing mode, the US is positioning itself in Libya in a way that will become yet another Syria as far as the end-game of this...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

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NATO is “Brain Dead”

NATO’s 70th Birthday Party, in London – the Birthday of a brain-dead child! What a feat! The two-day London NATO conference just ended – and...

Peter Koenig

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Elections in Hong Kong

The Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 24 November 2019 for all of its 18 District Councils. Various political parties, described as...

Vladimir Terehov

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WADA's Russia ban not sufficient

The World Anti-Doping Agency has banned Russia from major international sporting events for four years. However, this sanction simply doesn't go...

Tobias Oelmaier

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WADA's Russia ban simply not sufficient

The World Anti-Doping Agency has banned Russia from major international sporting events for four years. However, this sanction simply doesn't go...

Tobias Oelmaier

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LG Chem-GM battery alliance

Bold investment key to survival in era of limitless competition LG Chem has begun a full-scale foray into the U.S. electric vehicle (EV) battery...

Editorial

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Faint hope in Yemen

By Gwynne Dyer Some wars end in victory, but just as many sputter out in exhaustion. The war in Yemen, now coming up on five years old, always...

Gwynne Dyer

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Three front-line nations drifting into chaos

What do Ukraine, Turkey and South Korea have in common? Until recently, these three nations have never been strategically related to one another in...