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Jolted by ex-allies’ criminal cases, Trump faces election and legal risks
Steve Holland & James Oliphant PRESIDENT Donald Trump suffered twin setbacks on Tuesday with two ex-advisers facing prison sentences — and one of them saying Trump told him to commit a crime — possibly hurting his Republican Party’s election prospects and widening a criminal probe that has overshadowed his presidency.Within minutes of each other in separate courts, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort was found guilty on tax and bank fraud charges, while Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to a range of charges.Cohen also testified that Trump directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump.The president has denied having affairs with the women. His...
August 22, 2018

Jolted by ex-allies’ criminal cases, Trump faces election and legal risks

It’s always the customer’s fault
ISMAIL was relating to me a bizarre sequence of events and his frustrations at the inability of the system to solve them. On March 15 of this year, he had gone to a leading bank and wired some money to his account in the US. There were certain monthly financial obligations to be dispensed with, and a few days after this transaction, he wrote checks against this account and dutifully mailed them. Three weeks later, the bank in the US advised him that they were receiving checks against his account, but he had insufficient funds to cover them. They had no recourse but to send them back and slap him with a $40 fee for every check returned unpaid. Furthermore, overseas phone call charges were going to be debited against his account. Ismail was surprised. Hadn’t his last wire transfer...
August 22, 2018

It’s always the customer’s fault

Australia’s opposition Labor sitting pretty as PM’s leadership appears doomed
John Mair & Erin CooperAUSTRALIA’S opposition Labor Party looks to be in the envious position of having to do little to ensure victory in the next election after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull survived a damaging leadership challenge on Tuesday.Polling and growing dissatisfaction with Turnbull’s fractured center-right government, led by his Liberal Party, suggest all Labor has to do before the next election, which could be as soon as next month or as late as May, is avoid shooting themselves in the foot.“I would think the Liberal Party have a very limited chance of winning the next election,” said Ian McAllister, professor of Political Science at Australian National University in Canberra.“Labor’s strategy would just be to do very little, just sit on the sidelines. They’ll...
August 21, 2018

Australia’s opposition Labor sitting pretty as PM’s leadership appears doomed

Performing Haj over and over again
“Are you going for Haj this year?,” a Pakistani shopkeeper asked me. I told him I may go but I haven’t yet decided. He was surprised. “Why not, brother? Are you OK?,” he asked me, looking at me closely to check for signs of illness or troubles. I laughed and assured him that I am fine and explained that I performed my last Haj five years ago. I could get a permit this year but I can see that millions come from countries thousands of miles away for their first, once-in-a-lifetime Haj, and they deserve the space much more than I do. I have already performed Haj many times and I can do it again InshaAllah when all the ongoing mega projects are completed in two years, so why the rush? Why should I take up space and add to the crowd when I can give my place to a fellow Muslim?My...
August 21, 2018

Performing Haj over and over again

Bahrain — the economy is again!
AS the fear-mongering campaign against Bahrain’s economy predicting gloom and doom continues, it is very important to separate news reports about the general state of the economy in the region and those just focusing on Bahrain’s woes. Since the Gulf Arab states are reeling from severe economic recession, Bahrain cannot be an exception. As a matter of fact I generally follow news sources as much as I follow the news itself because today we are living in an era of fake news and controlled media. The sources of the negative coverage of Bahrain continue to be the media organs of the coup regime in Qatar and the regime of Wilayat Al-Faqih in Iran and its proxy — the terrorist organization of Hezbollah — in Lebanon. This negative coverage is not accidental, it is in fact part of a...
August 20, 2018

Bahrain — the economy is again!

Promises, promises, Imran Khan raises Pakistani hopes sky high
FROM creating 10 million jobs to building an Islamic welfare state and restoring Pakistan’s tattered image abroad, new premier Imran Khan is facing a problem of his own making: runaway expectations raised by his lofty rhetoric.A cricket legend and firebrand nationalist who is hero-worshipped by supporters, Khan swept to power in last month’s election on a populist platform vowing to root out corruption among a venal elite and lift people out of poverty.But he inherits control of a volatile nation facing mounting problems at home and abroad, including a looming economic crisis and a fracture with historic ally the United States over Pakistan’s alleged links to militants. Ties are also fraught with neighbors Afghanistan and nuclear-armed rival India.Opponents in parliament talk of...
August 19, 2018

Promises, promises, Imran Khan raises Pakistani hopes sky high

Turkey-US spat
THE crisis between the United States and Turkey, a NATO ally and traditional bulwark of American policy in the Middle East, is serious. While the relationship between them has often been fraught, the two countries have generally managed to keep difficulties within acceptable limits. No longer.Most of the blame lays at the feet of Turkey’s irascible President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has led a lurching foreign policy that has estranged all of Turkey’s traditional allies and most of its neighbors. In a recent New York Times column, Erdogan offered a long list of grievances his country has against the United States. The American list of grievances is equally long.Erdogan is not simply an autocrat at home; he is one who has taken on an international role that often challenges US...
August 18, 2018

Turkey-US spat

If rupee slump persists, it can hurt India’s Modi
THE rupee’s plunge to a record low has worried a wide cross-section of India’s society: companies, importers, those going on vacation and students planning to study overseas. But if the weakness persists, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s job could become a lot harder just before big state and national elections.India is a big buyer of everything from crude oil and electronics to gold and edible oil, and its import bill was expected to cross $600 billion in the fiscal year ending in March 2019, from about $565 billion in the previous year.The 9.3 percent fall in the rupee this year has already led to a surge in local prices of goods with an imported component. July was the ninth straight month in which India’s inflation was higher than the central bank’s medium-term target of 4...
August 16, 2018

If rupee slump persists, it can hurt India’s Modi

Italy bridge collapse: The financial facts behind the fury
ITALY’S anti-establishment government, outraged at the deadly collapse of a 50-year-old bridge, has presented the disaster as a warning to Brussels to give it more leeway to upgrade the country’s aging infrastructure.But the political anger generated by Tuesday’s tragedy in Genoa, in which at least 38 people died, could instead end up piling even more financial pressure on the state — from nervous holders of its 2 trillion euros ($2.3 trillion) in bonds.Within hours of the viaduct giving way and sending vehicles plummeting, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said the EU must allow Rome to include in its next budget all the funds needed to ensure the country’s infrastructure was safe.Salvini said Italy’s civil protection department estimated that at least 40 billion euros was...
August 16, 2018

Italy bridge collapse: The financial facts behind the fury

The new face of Afghanistan’s war
ON the streets of the city of Ghazni this week, Afghan troops and Taliban fighters battled for the future of Afghanistan.It was a savage fight. Several hundred Taliban insurgents attacked the town on Friday, and at the height of the battle they dominated the city, pushing back Afghan security forces to only a few key strongpoints while residents cowered in their homes. The Taliban said on Wednesday it was pulling back its fighters from the city, but the government said an attack on an army base nearby killed at least 44 police and soldiers.Should the Taliban have captured Ghazni, it would have been the first major urban victory since a short-lived 2015 takeover of Kunduz. Instead, they demonstrated once again their limitations. The insurgents remain adept at savage, one-off attacks,...
August 16, 2018

The new face of Afghanistan’s war

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