World leaders react to deadly Sri Lanka blasts

RELIGIOUS and world leaders have condemned a series of blasts in Sri Lanka that killed more than 150 people on Sunday, including dozens of...

Why the US Needs to Revisit Its Negotiating Approach to North Korea—And Soon

Weeks after the collapse of the summit between Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi, Vietnam, the North Korean leader finally broke...

Trump’s moves to sabotage Russia probe should shock everybody

If a movie has a gory climax, red should not be used in the scenes that lead up to it. I read somewhere that this is a basic filmmaking technique...

Ukraine votes for fresh start with comedian

Volodymyr Zelenskiy made light work of incumbent Petro Poroshenko in the presidential polls. Ukrainians have voted for a fresh start, but that also...

Libya at Threshold of Monumental Events

Western media outlets are once again in throes of panic as they report on the latest developments in Libya. According to French newspaper Le Monde,...

Israeli Soldiers Speak Just One Language: Live Fire

All the training, all the equipment, all the prestige of a commando unit ultimately led to a schoolboy, blindfolded and bound, being shot dead

The Emotion of Notre Dame

PARIS – People were chanting, praying, and crying, or just frozen in total disbelief, as the flames engulfed “their” cathedral of Notre Dame,...

Forget the hype: why 5G is about to disappoint you

In case you hadn’t noticed, media commentators and industry analysts are locked in a fierce competition to come up with ever more extreme...

What influences South Koreans’ support for North Korean resettlement?

South Koreans use various terms for those arriving from North Korea, from defector to refugee to new settler. The post What influences South...

Where does Malaysia stand on China’s Belt and Road?

AMONG the central narratives that swept the Mahathir Mohamad-led coalition into power in 2018 were two intricately interwoven accusations levelled...

Israeli Soldiers Shot Bound Palestinian Teen Because Live Fire Is Their Only Language

To Listen to Palestinian News Every Morning Is Torture

Yes, the Media Are Also to Blame for the Sorry State of Israeli Politics

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American Jews, Resist Netanyahu Like He's Trump

Netanyahu's new government - even more predatory and defiant than before - must usher in a fundamental shift in American Jews’ activism against...

Who’s Invited to the Mammal Party?

Better PR efforts needed in light of WTO ruling on Japanese seafood

A World Trade Organization appeals panel has thwarted Japan’s quest to remove South Korea’s ban on Japanese seafood that was imposed following...

Breakdown of nuclear negotiation

By Tong Kim At this point, the prospect of denuclearization appears gloomier and more distant than ever. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un,...

Healing the Health Care System

A cancer patient with an active illness who sees his oncologist once every two months for 15 minutes “because that’s what’s allocated”;...

Key to East Java: How tradition, Nusantara Islam and the religious grass roots helped secure Joko Widodo’s win in Indonesia

Muhammad Rofiqul A’la is a jovial, portly 39-year-old farmer and kyai (Islamic scholar) from Jember in the densely populated province of East...

Australia's struggling youth may decide election