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Over 50 Hong Kong democracy activists arrested under national security law

06 Jan 2021

Gulf Today Report Hong Kong police arrested about 50 former lawmakers and pro-democracy activists Wednesday on suspicion of breaking the city’s national security law. The mass arrests, including of former...

Second wave

27 Dec 2020

The world should get ready to defeat the second wave of the novel coronavirus, as now it has much experience in dealing with the pandemic. The world will surely get...

Aides make attempts to soothe Trump’s hurt feelings

12 Nov 2020

Stephen Lyons, The Independent On the morning the presidential election was called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, a hawk flew down from the heavens in my back...

Who fares better on the economy?

30 Oct 2020

Don Lee, Tribune News Service As the campaign enters the home stretch, President Donald Trump’s main closing argument is that he deserves four more years because he oversaw...

Will Trumpism survive Trump?

24 Oct 2020

Doyle McManus, Tribune News Service Trump may have failed as president, but his angry conservative populism proved spectacularly successful at winning Republican primaries. That makes Trump’s name a valuable...

Thailand cracks down on pro-democracy protests

15 Oct 2020

Thai authorities rounded up protest leaders under sweeping emergency powers announced Thursday as it launched a crackdown on escalating pro-democracy demonstrations that have also targeted the unassailable monarchy. Three top...

1 million are dead, but the toll continues to go up

29 Sep 2020

It is something few would have expected and is ringing alarm bells at a frenetic pace. The death of over a million people owing to the coronavirus is utterly shocking...

Stealing books – the clever and the stupid way

24 Sep 2020

Anyone who has ever thrown a book or books away must surely regret their decision later. I’ve done it and regretted it. To my horror, I discovered years later that...

Germany’s success story over hosting refugees

06 Sep 2020

Fifteen years ago I flew to Munich en route to Bavaria where I was invited to visit friends from Damascus who had made the torturous journey from Syria to Germany...

A convenient culprit for Lebanon’s port blast

16 Aug 2020

All Lebanon’s political factions and ex-warlords are to blame for the massive blast in Beirut port that devastated three nearby neighbourhoods at a time when the country’s economy has collapsed...

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