World News Insights: Opinion Articles

As parents worry over the cases of RSV filling up pediatric hospitals in the US, finally some good news: Vaccines that protect newborns from the virus could be ready in time for next year’s season. Pfizer Inc. today unveiled promising data on a maternal RSV shot that shows it lowered babies’ risk…

The scenes out of Henan province look dramatic. Workers walking down highways, clutching plastic bags filled with belongings in what was described as a mass exodus from Foxconn Technology Group’s iPhone factory in Zhengzhou. Fearful of catching Covid-19, and fed-up with being kept on campus,…

As we approach the midterm elections, most political coverage I see frames the contest as a struggle between Republicans taking advantage of a bad economy and Democrats trying to scare voters about the G.O.P.’s regressive social agenda. Voters do, indeed, perceive a bad economy. But perceptions don…

I know Lebanon, got to know its people and was there for its developmental boom, which paved the course that had been in Europe after the war. A similar boom has been underway for years in the Gulf states, with technological innovation striving in Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Kuwait, Manama and…

I know the harshness of the title “former president”. I know that Michel Aoun adores the palace. He would rather leave it in a vacuum than see it occupied by a successor. He had for decades believed that the palace was stolen from him. I had hoped that his farewell would have respected the pain…

President Biden’s early-October decision to impose sweeping export controls aimed at blocking China’s access to advanced semiconductors was eerily timed — a few days before the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th national congress. The Chinese response to American truculence, flying in the face of…

As if the world’s rainforests didn’t have enough problems to contend with, even the transition to zero-carbon power is threatening to level them. Industrial mining ate up 3,265 square kilometers (1,260 square miles) of tropical forest between 2002 and 2019, according to a recent study in the…

With Rishi Sunak as prime minister of the UK, it is now impossible to deny what has been evident for some while: Indian talent is revolutionizing the Western world far more than had been expected 10 or 15 years ago. You might think UK leadership is an exception, but consider the US. It is…

Yes… The title of this column is ironic. However, the intention is not to engage in schadenfreude but to ask if the liberal-left lost its right hand in propaganda and whipping up tensions after Elon Musk purchased Twitter? Musk, who is disgruntled with the left, recently tweeted that “the bird is…

There is no shortage of new headlines about the Middle East in the international press. There are headlines of every kind, summing up the region's many open-ended conflicts and aborted attempts. Nevertheless, most of these events seem repetitive- deja vu to an extent. This leaves boredom replacing…

For the first time, we’re heading into a Covid winter mostly free of restrictions. People are tired of mandates and rules, tired of lining up for tests and even, as booster rates show, tired of getting shots. And so public health needs a new approach to do any good — one based not on restrictions…

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never. That was Winston Churchill’s famous mantra. Liz Truss, another Tory prime minister trying to lead a battered Britain, couldn’t follow that bulldog advice. She wilted fast. She lasted only 44 days before resigning. The Storm didn’t even have time…