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Adel Abdul Mahdi (Photo: AFP)

Season of revolts across the world is likely to continue

Iranian symbols have come under attack, and the myth of Tehran's mystical hold over Iraqi Shias has demonstrably been...

5 Dec 2019 2:05 AM

New Thailand King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun. (Photo: AP)

Heirs & spares: Time to retire lese-majest©, other privileges

Commendably, lese-majest© is not a crime in Britain.

28 Nov 2019 8:51 PM

China on Saturday deployed its troops in Hong Kong for the first time since the unprecedented pro-democracy protests began in the former British colony more than five months ago over a proposed extradition law, with soldiers in plain clothes clearing the roadblocks. (Photo: AP)

Hong Kong's authorities have dug themselves a hole and there's no way...

The authorities declared that the protesters holed up on the campus, most of them students, had no option other than to...

20 Nov 2019 9:00 PM

Evo Morales

After the coup, future unclear: Will Bolivia head for polls?

The kind of bluster associated with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez was seemingly alien to his nature.

15 Nov 2019 1:30 AM

Winston Churchill (Photo: AP)

Thirty years after fall of Berlin Wall, democracy in Europe is in...

Inevitably, this has consequences, both within nation states and in the wider European context.

6 Nov 2019 10:40 PM

US President Donald Trump. (Photo: ANI)

Good riddance to Caliph', but no need to take Trump seriously

The US congressional Democratic leadership, meanwhile, is livid that it was even further out of the loop than Moscow.

30 Oct 2019 6:30 PM

Lebanon isnt the only Middle Eastern country, though, where perceptions of corruption at the highest level have lately led to outrage on the streets. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Lessons from Lebanon, Chile: Hard to tell the last straw

The lingua franca of the neoliberal upper crust, however, reform' all too often implies measures that target the poor at...

24 Oct 2019 2:02 AM

Greta Thunberg addresses the press before her march in Montreal. (Photo: AFP)

Better not trust capitalists, sign up for green army' instead

The Thunberg pater familias was correct in identifying such words as potentially problematic.

17 Oct 2019 7:49 PM

US President Donald Trump

Trump's tweet not out of line with US role in Middle East

Most of the critics tend to ignore the fact that historically America's reputation as an unreliable ally is well...

9 Oct 2019 6:30 PM

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul more than two weeks ago, amid persistent reports he was killed inside. (Photo: AFP)

Why MBS got off lightly after brutal murder of Khashoggi

Mohammed bin Salman, meanwhile, continues to warn the West that if Iran is not restrained, oil prices could go through...

2 Oct 2019 7:47 PM

Boris Johnson (Photo: AP)

Brexit blues: UK's future is uncertain and unwritten, given the...

On the other hand, culturally and economically, Britain was hardly cut off from the Continent in the decades leading up...

25 Sept 2019 7:27 PM

Drone attacks targeted two major Saudi Aramco processing facility and oilfield in eastern Saudi Arabia Saturday, the Interior Ministry said, sparking a huge fire at one of the sites before dawn. (Photo: File)

Oilfield attacks are a warning to Saudis over Yemen policy

The implication was that the House of Saud just had to give the word for its saviour-in-chief to launch retaliatory...

18 Sept 2019 8:00 PM