We still don't know how 'America First' will play out in Asia
Mar 21, 2017 00:07 am UTC| Insights & Views
Last Thursday in Tokyo, Rex Tillerson broke his silence as US Secretary of State, saying that the US needed a different approach to North Korea, though declining to elaborate on the details. Since his confirmation in...
G20 finance ministers fail to reach an agreement to uphold free trade
Mar 20, 2017 13:51 pm UTC| Commentary Economy
Finance ministers and central bank governors of the worlds 20 biggest economies at a meeting in Germany during the weekend failed to keep their commitment to endorse free trade in the G-20 communique. Finance ministers...
The little-understood connection between Islamic terror and drug profits
Mar 20, 2017 01:25 am UTC| Insights & Views
Terrorists are in it as much for the loot as for the ideology. The Islamic State, or ISIS, could hardly exist, whatever its Islamist fervor, without hard cashfrom salesof pilfered petroleum, taxes on its subject...
Rebuilding Homs: how to resurrect a city after six years of conflict
Mar 17, 2017 11:00 am UTC| Insights & Views
As the conflict in Syria enters its seventh year, the toll it has taken on my home town of Homs continues to grow. Much of the citys built environment has been damaged or destroyed: as of 2014, 50% of Homss neighbourhoods...
Global Geopolitical Series: Russia phobia in Capitol Hill
Mar 17, 2017 05:12 am UTC| Commentary
The Political establishment in Washington went into afrenzy last yearafter then-candidate Donald Trump said that he wants to restore relations with the Russians. Every time, Mr. Trump refused to criticize either Russia or...
Why do horror pulp fiction in Pakistan demonise Hindu characters?
Mar 14, 2017 08:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
A terrible war is going on in the ghost world. Two opposing sides the Muslim spirits and the Hindu spirits face each other in a horrific combat. Suddenly, a gigantic fire-spitting demon with three eyes and a snake...
Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt: a new global hub for social impact start-ups
Mar 13, 2017 07:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
Refrigerators in the Moroccan desert; a bracelet to prevent heart attacks in Tunisia; a source funding system for charities in Egypt. Mission-driven start-ups are blossoming in these three North African countries, which...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US election: why it’s not the protesters’ votes that the Democrats should worry about
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects