Global Issues
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How the World Enables China’s Legal Gamesmanship
More specifically, I suggested that the official delegates of the 160-plus national governments who will convene later in 2020 for…
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Greece on alert as Turkey sends survey ship to disputed waters
The search for potentially rich oil and gas deposits is to take place south of the Greek island of Kastellorizo.…
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Hannah Clarke’s domestic violence murder highlighted coercive control — but has anything changed?
After their horrific deaths, mounting evidence suggested Ms Clarke and her children had suffered a long history of psychological abuse…
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‘Polarised’ debate on gender recognition is harming UK, says equalities chief
The departing chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission has said the polarising debate around transgender rights will be…
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Traditional council frees Taliban setting up peace talks
The declaration read out in both of Afghanistan’s official languages of Pashto and Farsi calls for an immediate start to…
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Lebanese protesters storm ministry buildings as anger over Beirut blast grows
Lebanese protesters stormed several ministries Saturday in apparently planned raids after an explosion blamed on government negligence at Beirut port…
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UK armed forces asked to help deal with migrant boats crossing Channel
Taking advantage of a spell of hot weather and calm sea conditions, hundreds of people including children and pregnant women…
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A Decade After BP Oil Disaster, Gulf of Mexico Still Shows Scars
Scientists say large swaths of the Gulf may never be the same. Matt Haines VoA London-based oil company BP, which…
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Guns v giving: the trend that says everything about our priorities
We’ve always spent more on arms than aid, of course. Matt Wade The Sydney Morning Herald But the amount allocated…
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Lebanon: Protesters take over ministries after deadly blast
Meanwhile, PM Hassan Diab says he… Deutsche Welle Lebanese protesters on Saturday stormed the country’s Foreign Ministry as they vent…
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Turkey’s tentacles in India go deeper than thought, says new intel warning
The Turkish foreign ministry on Wednesday criticised India’s decision to revoke Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in August last year,…
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Australia Bay Seafoods loses export licence amid legal fight with NT Government
Australia Bay Seafoods (ABS) is taking the Government to court over plans to merge two fisheries, claiming there is no…
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The Master and the Prodigy
Less appreciated is that he owes some of his central insights to a brilliant Cambridge polymath who died in 1930…
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The History of the Fight for Economic Equality in the United States
Americans are increasingly worried about the rising tide of economic inequality, as fewer control more wealth. Daniel Mandell The National…
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The Beirut Blast: An Accident in Name Only
Among the country’s long-suffering citizens, shock is quickly yielding to fury. ICG It may be the last chance for those…
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Moscow and Ankara will continue uneasy cooperation
Moscow also touts possible space cooperation with Turkey amidst tensions with the US on this issue. Anna Borshchevskaya Middle East…
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