A scene from the Palisades Fire that started in the City of Los Angelas, January 2025. (photo: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire)/Flickr) Sun 12 January 2025: The fires burning in Palestine and Los Angeles today are symptoms of the same disease: a system that values conquest over conservation, profit over people, […]
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Fri 10 January 2025: Some 15,200 Chinese millionaires were expected to relocate in 2024, according to Henley & Partners. Taipei, Taiwan – Five years ago, Jane Meng travelled from her home in Shanghai to Hong Kong to get herself something special for her birthday. The 31-year-old wealthy owner of an import-export company was not looking for […]
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Thu 09 January 2025: We all need to re-embrace the dream of African unity and demand freedom of movement for all Africans on the continent. Speaking at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, on May 17, Africa’s richest person, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, complained that he faces far more obstacles travelling around Africa than […]
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Fri 03 January 2025: As Türkiye lays the groundwork for the historical railway’s revival, the iron tracks of the Hejaz Railway carry more than trains—they carry the weight of history and the glimmer of possibility. A century after it was first laid, the Istanbul-Damascus section of the Hejaz Railway is poised for revival. Türkiye has […]
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Thu 02 January 2025: When Israel’s far-right extremist finance minister Bezalel Smotrich acknowledged in October his aim for a Jewish state that encompasses not only all of the Palestinian territories, but also extends to Syria, some speculated about how such a goal would be achieved. In Israel’s classic strategy of “bit by bit”, according to Smotrich, Tel […]
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Fri 27 December 2024: The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime marks a watershed moment for the Middle East, with implications extending far beyond the borders of war-torn Syria. December 8, 2024, will be remembered as a day of monumental political and military realignment—a decisive “Ottoman slap” to entrenched regional powers. The term “Ottoman slap” originated […]
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Thu 26 December 2024: In Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr Strangelove, the world teeters on the edge of nuclear annihilation, not because of some grand strategic masterstroke by a villain, but due to paranoia, hubris and the failure to interrogate our own assumptions. The war room is filled with men so consumed by ideology and self-interest […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: A Kashmiri wedding is measured in quintals, a historical unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms, or about 220 pounds. And this, some argue, is its undoing. If you have been to a Kashmiri wedding recently and your friend were to inquire about it, the most common query would be, “How […]
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Mon 23 December 2024: The protests that followed Mozambique’s contested October elections have been the most protracted and deadliest since multiparty democracy in 1990. Police have reportedly killed at least 50 since Daniel Chapo, from the ruling Frelimo, was declared winner by a fanciful 70%. The party has been in power since independence in 1975. A parallel count by the […]
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Sun 22 December 2024: After topping $100,000, Bitcoin supporters see the cryptocurrency soaring even higher. Bitcoin has proven to be one of the best-performing assets in modern history. The value of the cryptocurrency has increased some 1,000 times over the past decade, far outpacing US stocks and real estate. Buoyed by United States President-elect Donald […]
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