Vaping linked to rare lung disease: study

Doctors treating a patient with a rare lung disease usually caused by exposure to industrial metals say it may instead be the first case linked to...

Europe for Europe’s Sake

Oceans finally take center stage at COP25

World leaders are gathered in Madrid through Dec. 13 to negotiate global actions in combating climate change at the 25th Conference of Parties to...

Mohamed Ali, the man from Egypt’s operations room

Mohamed Ali, 45 years old, is an amateur actor whose company was involved in the Egyptian army’s contracting investments for 15 years until a...

Italy’s ‘pacifist’ government steamrolls purchase of 27 more F-35 jets

Commentary. We could never have imagined that a government consisting of the M5S, LeU and PD would give the go-ahead to the F-35 purchases, toeing...

Government Debt Is Not a Free Lunch

CAMBRIDGE – With interest rates on government debt at multi-decade lows, a number of leading economists have argued that almost every advanced...

Matúš Vallo Zvyšovateľ

Už po necelom roku strávenom vo funkcii sa dočkal prvých plodov svojej činnosti, a tak poslanci ako jeden muž rozhodli, že mu zvýšia plat...

Došlo už aj na Kisku

Už keď polícia vo februári tohto roka obvinila z daňového podvodu konateľa jeho firmy, Kiska spozornel. Tvrdil, že z odôvodnenia obvinenia...

What EU “Geopolitical” Power Will Cost

LONDON – With former German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen assuming the presidency of the European Commission, the European Union now has a...

Hillary hints at Trump grudge match, proving the Democrats are approaching political extinction

With uncanny timing, Hillary Rodham Clinton has hit the international talk show circuit, triggering heated speculation that she may be planning a...

A forbidden Lebanese revolution 

A financial, economic and currency collapse in Lebanon could be a heavy recipe for a crisis, easily escalating to a public rebellion that could...

Whilst Brexit dominates the election campaign, Syria moves into the shadows

General elections are intriguing times in British politics. Parties make headlines with spending commitments, their leaders are constantly on the...

Punitive compensation order

Discipline of banks is starting point for eliminating misleading selling The Financial Supervisory Service has ordered two local banks to pay the...

1519 a iné letopočty

Predstavme si scénu – po prúde rieky Guadalquivir, čo spája Sevillu s morom, sa plaví päť lodí. Čudná to flotila, zložená zo starých,...

Angela Merkel finds the right words during Auschwitz visit

Angela Merkel used her speech at Auschwitz to condemn anti-Semitism. She visited the former Nazi death camp at a time when making a commitment to...

NATO Ups the Military Ante against China and Russia

In the recent foreign ministers level NATO summit held in Brussels, the NATO leaders not only re-affirmed their commitment to the same...

Authority and Regulation in an Interconnected World

This is an excerpt from Reprogramming the World: Cyberspace and the Geography of Global Order. Get your free copy here. In 1975, the United States...

Making Room for Growth in Your Winter Garden

There is a beautiful but brief moment in early August when everything is in bloom and the garden feels full and fulfilled. Plenty is the word that...

You Never Get Lost In This Ancient Exercise

It’s a sunny November day and I have found my meditative spot in the Iowa countryside—a labyrinth tucked into a grove of conifers at the...

Wait until Trump hears about Europe’s carbon tax

NEW YORK – Next week, the European Union’s leaders will commit to cutting net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. This historic pledge...

The ECB Needs a New Mandate

BERLIN – The European Central Bank’s decision in September to pursue more monetary-policy easing was controversial, with one board...

How China can set the record straight about its GDP figures

Admitting to bigger quarterly ups and downs could highlight need for policy action

Opinion – What the US Exit from the Paris Accords Means for Women

The Trump Administration has officially made good on a promise to exit the Paris Climate Accords by 2020. The Administration also recently announced...

China stealing Middle East from under America’s nose

Granted, Washington’s influence in the Middle East has been steadily disappearing for some time. It became clear this was the case after the US...

PTM is on a peaceful quest to free all Pakistanis from oppression

In his seminal work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Brazilian philosopher Paulo Freire states: "Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit,...

Netanyahu’s Greatest Assault

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Lisbon on Wednesday with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to discuss policy against Iran. A day...

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Political implications of continued contacts between Abbas and Mashal

Surprisingly, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a phone call to former Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, to get reassured about his health...

Breeder’s epic patience led to oriental white stork’s return

About 20 oriental white storks were pecking at food and walking leisurely when I visited Hyogo Park of the Oriental White Stork in Toyooka, Hyogo...

Role of new nominee

Choo can put prosecution reform back on track President Moon Jae-in nominated Choo Mi-ae, a five-term ruling party lawmaker, for the position of...

Punitive compensation order

Discipline of banks is starting point for eliminating misleading selling The Financial Supervisory Service has ordered two local banks to pay the...

Nakamura’s legacy of aid should be carried on in Afghanistan

Tetsu Nakamura dedicated himself to improving the lives of people in Afghanistan through consistent and persistent efforts firmly tethered to the...

Mapping the Digital Economy in 2020

Measuring Growth Democratically

WASHINGTON, DC – Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two of this year’s recipients of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, are the...

Ethiopia’s Peace Prize Challenge

ADDIS ABABA– As Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed collects this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, his country is at a crossroads. In one...

China on NATO's radar

By Andrew Hammond NATO's 70th anniversary leadership summit has finished in London. Headlines were stolen by an agreement to bolster the defenses...

UN confab views global Christian persecution

By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS ― The stunning silence of the mainstream media which often overlooks ongoing anti-religious violence has become...

Money and politics

By Arthur I. Cyr Billionaire business entrepreneur Michael Bloomberg has entered the still-long endurance run for the Democratic Party's...

Should China replace US as South Korea's key ally?

China's leader Xi Jinping holds a teleconference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Reuters-Yonhap By Oh Young-jin Many Koreans would still find...

Standing up to China: Czech mayor sets high bar

By James M. Dorsey A Czech mayor's refusal to endorse Beijing's "one China" policy potentially sets a high bar as Western powers grapple with how...

Personalities outweigh issues at NATO summit

The celebration of NATO's birthday began with Donald Trump branding his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron "nasty" and ended with the U.S....

New US Ambassadors to Central Asia - the Testament of Growing US Interest

Carrying on the discussion about the role Central Asia plays in Washington’s grand designs and the tactics it employs to ensure its expansion in...

The Latin Alphabet in Central Asia — America’s Geopolitical Tool

Central Asia has long been one of the key fronts in America’s ideological battle and information war against Russia. A year ago, the American...

Vsaka reka ima dva bregova

Pred leti sem si šel v Phnom Penhu ogledat zapor, v katerem so Rdeči Kmeri mučili in ubijali svoje politične nasprotnike, intelektualce, v do...