Bangladesh border guards shoot, kill Indian soldier: official

AN Indian paramilitary guard was killed and another critically wounded after they were fired upon by  Bangladeshi troops at a border river on...

Minors May Fight Deportation, Too

Rohan was born in Israel to a Filipina mother. He lived here all his life, was a student in the Israeli school system and saw himself as an Israeli...

Emergency economic meeting

President Moon's shift of focus should help restore corporate vigor President Moon Jae-in presided over an emergency meeting with his economic...

Moving Olympic marathon is a win-win for athletes, fans

The International Olympic Committee’s plan to move Tokyo Olympic marathon and race walking events to Sapporo may have angered or dismayed people...

Has the post-American Middle East arrived?

LONDON – As protests spread across the Arab world in late 2010 and early 2011, the Obama administration struggled to decide a strategy. Torn...

Trump’s Perfidious America

TEL AVIV – US President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to withdraw American troops from Syria, clearing the way for a Turkish offensive against...

Time to Bite the Bullet in Syria

CANBERRA – Recent events in Syria have naturally raised two questions: Who lost the country? And where might the international community go from...

Time and poverty go hand in hand: A lack of resources includes a person’s time

TRADITIONALLY, poverty has been measured in terms of income. This is because a lack of income constrains opportunity, choice and the fulfilment of...

Global Africa?

The IMF Should Take Over Libra

ATHENS – The Libra Association is fragmenting. Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe, Mercado Pago, and eBay have abandoned the Facebook-led corporate...

Red card to Kim Jong-un

Players of South and North Korea in their 2022 World Cup qualifying match at the empty Kim Il-sung Stadium in Pyongyang, Oct. 15. By Oh Young-jin...

Like the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque is also under threat

Not a day goes by without another Israeli attack on various aspects of Palestinian life, be it through home demolitions, land confiscations, the...

The Scramble of October 2019, a New World

Two weeks into the Turkish offensive against the Kurds in Syria and everything is changing. Whatever the case, Syria is back, as the Syrian Arab...

Will Putin Put Rasputin’s Curse on NATO Shaman?

The desperate world order has ordered up a witch doctor to get Russia President Vladimir Putin. After almost three decades of failed attempts to...

Moon Jae-in's Speech at the UN General Assembly

As it was promised, we are going to take a closer look at the speech presented by South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in in front of the UN General...

Huawei Moving on Without Google?

Huawei’s flagship smartphone, the Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro, launched without Google products being available on it due to US restrictions against...

Climate Leadership from Developing Countries

LIBREVILLE – When Gabon ratified the 2015 Paris climate agreement, its real work was just beginning. The main challenge was to find ways to...

New Zealand’s biggest commercial TV channel on the block

NEW Zealand's MediaWorks put the country's largest commercial television station up for sale on Friday after sustaining losses for years in an...

Don't Be Tempted, Gantz

Benny Gantz’s meeting on Wednesday with Chief of General Staff Aviv Kochavi was in order to receive “an update on recent regional developments...

It’s Just an Arab Problem, Right?

Sovereignty is the great fantasy of the Israeli right. They want to apply sovereignty, expand sovereignty, demonstrate sovereignty. So, after a...

Labour’s right-wing, anti-Corbyn MPs are slowly purging themselves

So, another one bites the dust. Louise Ellman MP quit the Labour Party this week. The chairperson of Labour Friends of Israel is the latest in a...

Brexit once again, with feeling

The EU has another Brexit deal with yet another British government — and it's still unclear whether Parliament will vote for it. It's not the end...

Amid Turkey's Operation in Syria, Ankara-Moscow Relations Stay Rock-solid

While the mainstream Western media has spent last two years or so predicting a ‘downfall’ of Turkish-Russian relations because of some...

Kauza Gorila a Mikuláš Drzurinda

Penta všetko odmieta a po právnej stránke je to už, zdá sa, nepriestrelné. Po politickej nie. Bubeníková bola mimoriadne bystrá, priebojná,...

Here's where Washington's focus will shift to after Syria

The reason the US might be (at least, on the face of it) caring less about the Middle East and the situation in Syria is that Washington has a new...

Thank you, Tunisia

The overwhelming election victory of Tunisia’s new President, Kais Saied, and the statements he made in its aftermath send a very clear message:...

US economic war on China weakens nuclear North Korea too

Seventieth anniversary of China-North Korea ties highlights Beijing's regional sway

On India-China ties, Modi and Xi have the will. Do they have a way?

As the dust settles on the “informal summit” at the weekend between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping,...

Facebook’s censorship bolsters Erdogan’s war

Commentary. Facebook has been shutting down the pages of independent publications and outlets with ties to the Italian social movements. It seems...

Final curtain to fall Oct. 20 on historic Tokyo movie theater

On Dec. 31, 1946, the Marunouchi Subaru-za movie theater opened in Tokyo’s Yurakucho district. World War II had ended only the year before....

New Developments in the Skripal Case Reveal it for the Sham it Always Was.

“The willing suspension of disbelief or the moment which constitutes poetic faith.” This has been defined as willingness to suspend one’s...

Protests won't end Hong Kong's role as Asia's top financial hub

Wealthy still keeping their money in gateway to China

Stop rallies

Country needs exit from Cho Kuk turmoil The largest conservative Liberty Korea Party (LKP) will organize another political rally at Gwanghwamun in...

Far from being ‘inhumane’, as the US ambassador claims, evicting settlers is one form of justice

The Zionist erasure of Palestinians from their landscape is no longer contested in the international arena. The dispossession of Palestinians is...

Will labor practices in Japan be disrupted?

The war for talent is becoming more intense in Japan as the young population is decreasing and the labor market is increasingly a seller’s...

What Next for the Bretton Woods Twins?

Trump’s Middle East Meltdown

To be guilty or not

By Kim Ji-myung Is the recent Cho Kuk chaos drawing nearer to a close with his resignation from the justice minister's position? I'm afraid not....

US troops and Mideast

By Arthur I. Cyr President Donald Trump's surprise decision to withdraw United States military forces from Syria has generated intense controversy,...

Will we choose 4 more years of this?

By Ann McFeatters WASHINGTON ― As we confront the 1,000th day of the Trump presidency, we see what it's come down to ― and you know this ― the...

Všetci spolu, každý za seba

Slovenská republika sa prihlásila k multilateralizmu prostredníctvom vyhlásenia NR SR k parlamentom a národom sveta z 3. decembra 1992,...

'Escaping from tyranny of here and now'

By Dr. Myint Zan This year's Nobel Prize in Physics for 2019 was awarded to three scientists for their focus on the cosmos and the discovery of a...

Hypocrisy, pure and simple

By Richard Pennington Every Wednesday since 1992, a group of resolute people has gathered outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul at noon to remember...

BC: Italy: Artificial Financial Crisis: All About Protecting the US!

BC stands for NEO’s Banned Classic. This article was originally published by our journal on 22.06.18 For some reason, this article is missing...

Just How Independent is the EU from the US?

The shifting global balance, redistribution of power, geopolitical uncertainties, together with the doubts about the reliability of the United...

Koniec sľubného Bugárovho projektu

Otvorené dvere ostávajú pre hnutie Spolupatričnosť, ktoré nedávno založili bývalí členovia SMK, aj pre Maďarské Fórum Zsolta Simona,...