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Weird match

North Korea should follow international norms for sports South Koreans ― and people around the world ― could not watch the Asian qualifying match...

Your next vacation may be virtual

KUALA LUMPUR – Japan’s biggest airline is betting that the future of travel isn’t traveling at all. For the last month, a married couple in...

Financing the world’s green transition

PARIS – Four years after world leaders signed the Paris climate agreement and adopted the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable...

Unsustainable Australia

NEW YORK – Few countries have such a fundamental interest in addressing climate change as Australia. Yet Australia’s current conservative...

There Is No Security Without Sustainability

Freedom of speech and our freedoms

By Arthur I. Cyr At the start of October, the European Court of Justice handed down an important decision regarding Facebook that should be...

Why Russia and China Stand Together

The capitalist world is in decay. The West is rotting. Anger and nihilism are pouring from the imperialist empire whose citizens are frustrated;...

Information Warfare: Twitter Targets Hong Kong

When Twitter Safety announced that it was taking actions against “information operations” directed at Hong Kong – informed observers could...

US senator warns Hong Kong becoming ‘police state’ as thousands rally

HONG Kong is sliding towards becoming a police state, US senator Josh Hawley warned Monday, as tens of thousands filled the strife-torn city's...

The US–Japan trade deal a win for Trump or Abe?

US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe inked the US–Japan Trade Agreement to much fanfare on September 25, 2019. The...

U.S. blunder could bring order to chaos

WASHINGTON – The deal with Turkey to pull U.S. troops out of Syria is a typical Trumpian mess, with rash, poorly planned presidential action...

Integrating the Arab World for Sustainable Growth

AMMAN – The Arab world has a massive natural-resource endowment and a total GDP of nearly $2.5 trillion. The region is highly diverse in its...

Why the Philippine-US Kamandag war games are a balancing act for Duterte

The third annual Kamandag military exercises could not have come at a more critical time, with the Philippines expanding its China and Russia ties,...

Much of eastern Japan deals with deluge of historic proportions

The impact of Typhoon No. 19 was evident all around me on the afternoon of Oct. 13, when I walked around a residential area in Kawasaki’s Takatsu...

New Zealand universities face fines after dorm death

NEW Zealand universities and dorm accommodation providers were told Tuesday they could face hefty fines following a gruesome case in which a...

Libyan conflict leaves rubbish mounds smouldering in Tripoli’s streets

Mabrouk Ahmed says he has to keep watch into the night to stop people dumping their rubbish on the wide street that runs in front of his home in...

Yes, Netanyahu’s Iran Policy Has Failed and Tehran Will Strike Back

Two years ago I wrote an op-ed in Yedioth Ahronoth entitled “What every Jewish mother should know: The prime minister, the security cabinet and...

Can a West African Currency Union Work?

YAOUNDÉ – The 15 countries of the Economic Community of West African States have agreed to adopt, as of next year, a new shared currency, the...

Child Marriage Is Stunting Development

FEZ – At last month’s United Nations summit on the Sustainable Development Goals, child marriage did not get top billing. Yet ending this cruel...

Anti-Globalization Bias and Public Policy

NEW YORK – Opponents of globalization constantly point to the uneven impact of open trade. Although trade liberalization can make the overall...

South Korea shows workplace gender discrimination is alive and kicking

Seoul Metro cheated women out of jobs -- and it is not alone

Israel and Jordan’s Secret Security Ties Aren’t Enough

This month, Israel and Jordan will mark the 25th anniversary of their peace agreement, but the bilateral relationship is only getting more...

Philippines, Israel, Palestine and Jews: A Bittersweet History of Expulsion, Refuge and Racism

In late August, the first of over a hundred Filipino families scheduled for deportation from Israel was sent packing after a futile appeal.  >>...

What's next in the impeachment inquiry as Congress returns

Congress is returning from a two-week recess on Tuesday, but some lawmakers barely left Washington. Three House committees investigating...

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Wasteful bickering

Partisan dispute over economic policy makes life more difficult Lee Ho-seung, senior presidential secretary for economic affairs, said Sunday that...

The first thing to do is fire all the cops

NEW YORK – In the latest shooting of an innocent civilian by a trigger-happy police officer, a white Fort Worth cop blew away a 28-year-old black...

Despicable peer bullying among teachers in Kobe shocks society

“You must have been surprised to get a new teacher all of a sudden. I am so sorry. ...” Thus starts a long letter written by a teacher on sick...

Syria - wheels within wheels

By Gwynne Dyer Russia and its Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad win, the Kurds lose, and the United States leaves in disgrace. It has been a hectic few...

Trump’s move in Syria should alarm U.S. allies

What experts have long dreaded finally happened in northern Syria last week. Following a U.S.-Turkey presidential telephone conversation the night...

Erdogan is too late

Suddenly, the Arab League came back to life after being buried for years, unmoved by the grave events and bloody tragedies that have befallen the...

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Turkey’s ‘Operation Peace Spring’ and the world’s hypocrisy

When Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, announced the launch of Operation Peace Spring on Wednesday, he faced criticism from almost all...

Nation-state system is ailing and needs a reset

By Tom Plate There are a few, though not yet many, Republicans openly furious with beleaguered President Donald Trump for seemingly asking Beijing...

Russia Consolidates its Positions in the Indian Oil and Gas Sectors

Russia is known to be India’s largest defense technology partner. But besides defense, the two states also cooperate in other areas which are no...

17,000 Italian workers have died on the job in the last decade

Commentary. Since this is a slow-moving massacre, we should no longer use the euphemistic expression “white deaths” for deaths at the workplace....

Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah tortured in prison, Europe is silent

Report. At the dreaded Tora prison, Alaa Abd El-Fattah has been beaten and threatened, frightening new territory for a regime that spared...

Most Americans would love a mulligan on 2016

By John M. Crisp Last week White House counsel Pat Cipollone notified leaders in the House of Representatives that the Trump administration will not...

South Korea and the fate of liberalism

The assumption that Korean society will one day resemble American society is based on the belief that Americans will do everything they can to hold...

Four contentious nuclear issues for success of 3rd Trump-Kim summit

By Jun Bong-geun Since the so-called "no-deal" summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi in February,...

BC: Syria: Difficult Choices

BC stands for NEO’s Banned Classic. This article was originally published by our journal on 29.08.13   For some reason, this article is missing...

Demi Lovato proves that Brand Israel is now toxic

“Brand Israel” was launched. As I’ve written before, this public relations strategy was an utter failure. War crimes, apartheid and denial of...