Tue 23 May 2023: Embraces are fleeting, and a person may move from one embrace to another for whatever reason. This is not a phrase to promote a brothel and wasn’t said by a prostitute as she went from the embrace of one to another. It was actually said in the speech by the head […]
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Wed 17 May 2023: Istanbul, Turkey – Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised his supporters a “bigger victory” when they return to the polls in 12 days’ time in a run-off vote for the country’s top job. Erdogan, who is seeking a third term as president and a five-year extension of his 20-year rule, has appeared in […]
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Wed 17 May 2023: At the end of a long day, you realise you’re starting to get a headache. So you buy painkillers from the street vendor, and take two. But how do you know what those pills really are? The vendor isn’t a pharmacy. There’s no package insert listing ingredients or dosage instructions. What […]
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Tue 16 May 2023: Observers surprised after results show president leading his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu by more than 4 percentage points in the first round. Days before Turkey headed into the most consequential presidential election in its modern history, most opinion polls showed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan trailing behind opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu. However on Sunday, observers […]
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Mon 15 May 2023: The fact that more than half of the South African population is under 30 years could be beneficial for the country’s economic growth and development. But South Africa has not been able to reap this demographic dividend. This is largely due to a skills mismatch. That’s why 60% of its young people (between the ages of 15 […]
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Thu 11 May 2023: Experts warn of ‘cataclysmic’ scenario if world’s biggest economy fails to meet its debt obligations. As a game of chicken plays out in Washington, DC, over whether to raise the limit on US government borrowing to avoid a default on its debt, the one thing that experts agree on is that a default would […]
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Corporal Hasan Al-Aghdarli, devoted more than six decades of his life guarding Al-Aqsa Mosque Sun 07 May 2023: Procrastination is the thief of time and I have idly spent the last few hours disappearing down different rabbit holes following odd facts and bits of useless information. I’m sure many of you will have spent hours […]
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Sat 06 May 2023: Many in government and the opposition are united in proclaiming South Africa’s reluctance to arrest Putin when he visits in August. Cape Town, South Africa – On Tuesday, South Africa’s Justice Minister Ronald Lamola criticised the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying it was inconsistent in its work. “The fact that an investigation […]
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Wed 03 May 2023: The possibility of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party losing the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections on 14 May has recently sparked debate about the country’s future. Erdogan has been in power for more than 20 years and is facing his toughest challenge yet in the upcoming elections. If Erdogan […]
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Tue 02 May 2023: Critics of the monarchy say it is outdated and a waste of money, but supporters argue it more than pays its way. The coronation of King Charles III on Saturday is again shining the global spotlight on every aspect of the British royal family, including their cost to the public. The […]
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