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In "Opinion / Editorial"
November 28, 2018
Putin plays hardball, again
November 27, 2018
Short-lived smiles
in Brussels?
November 26, 2018
Paris, Act Two
November 25, 2018
Muslim women in the US Congress
November 23, 2018
Airbnb’s refusal to handle stolen property
There is something distinctly odd about the row that has broken out over the appointment of a new head of Interpol, the international clearing agency for police intelligence and arrest warrants.A South Korean, Kim Jong-yang, has just been chosen by a majority of Interpol’s 194 member states meeting in Dubai for their annual conference. The Russians have called “foul”, insisting that their candidate, Alexander Prokopchuk, who had initially appeared to be the favorite, was undermined by a concerted US-led lobbying effort to block his election.And, indeed, there were Western claims that Prokopchuk, a retired general and senior member of the Russian interior ministry, had abused Interpol’s international arrest warrant system to try and detain overseas critics of Kremlin policies. One...
November 22, 2018
Pointless Interpol wrangling
November 21, 2018
A Spaniard in the works?
Ebola is a terrifying disease. And until now, the terror it inspires has been its greatest ally. In their attempt to escape an outbreak, people already infected carry the contagion to fresh areas. This proved to be an important reason for Ebola’s spread in West Africa where, in the three years from 2013, some 11,300 people died.But now with a fresh outbreak in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this appalling disease, which on average proves fatal to half of those infected, has acquired a new ally - terrorists.Thugs from a group calling themselves the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) have assaulted UN peacekeepers and health professionals struggling with the latest outbreak at its epicenter in the city of Beni, population of around a million, in the DRC’s...
November 20, 2018
Ebola’s terrorist allies
The US state of California has the world’s fifth largest economy, but going by the way it has handled the wildfires that have been raging for the past 11 days, money isn’t everything.To date, the fires have killed at least 76 people and more than 1,200 people are reported to be missing. More than 247,000 acres have been burned since Nov. 8 when the blaze began, 13,500 structures destroyed and the air quality in northern California has been rated the world’s worst, even worse than in India and China. It is the deadliest US wildfire in a century and many people, not least of whom is President Donald Trump, are wondering why this is happening at all.Leaving for California to survey the destruction, Trump again focused on forest management as a cause of the blazes. In a couple of tweets,...
November 19, 2018
California burning
November 18, 2018
Netanyahu on the chopping block
