As tensions escalate in the Middle East, can all-out war be averted?
Apr 12, 2023 03:24 am UTC| Insights & Views
Violence has again erupted in the Middle East during one of the holiest times of year for both Jews and Muslims. In recent days, militants in southern Lebanon have fired a large number of rockets at Israel in response...
Ukraine war: the lessons from the Northern Ireland peace process
Apr 10, 2023 16:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
As the French and Chinese presidents, Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping, were discussing the need for more constructive international engagement to end the war in Ukraine, it emerged this week that Ukraine, too, was open to...
Finland, NATO and the evolving new world order – what small nations know
Apr 06, 2023 07:45 am UTC| Politics
In the world of geopolitics, great powers make, break and play by their own rules. Smaller states largely have to make do with adjusting to the world as determined by others. Which is why the decision by Finland a...
New EU-UK trade deal has promise for Northern Ireland and US as well
Apr 05, 2023 13:41 pm UTC| Politics
A new trade agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom, which left the EU in 2020, could have finally found a way to safeguard peace in Northern Ireland after Brexit reignited old tensions. The deal...
Russia's shadow war: Vulkan files leak show how Putin's regime weaponises cyberspace
Apr 05, 2023 13:33 pm UTC| Politics
Recent revelations about the close partnership between the Kremlin and NTC Vulkan, a Russian cybersecurity consultancy with links to the military, provide some rare insights into how the Putin regime weaponises...
Mongolia: squeezed between China and Russia fears 'new cold war'
Apr 05, 2023 13:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Mongolias prime minister, Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene, recently expressed his countrys fear that the world is heading towards a new cold war as the relations between Russia and China and the west particularly Nato have...
China warns US House Speaker McCarthy not to meet with Taiwan President Tsai during US transit
Apr 05, 2023 10:20 am UTC| Politics
China has warned US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy not to hold a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen as she makes her transit to the United States following a visit to Central America. Beijing said McCarthy should...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
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IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects