World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The winds that toppled British Prime Minister Liz Truss are omens of a bigger storm that could drag the next government into a whirlwind of turmoil. With Rishi Sunak as Premier, the political landscape in Britain is bound to change. Born to Indian immigrants who came to the United Kingdom in…

I hope the readers will forgive me for citing an old column of mine in which I call Aounism a product of many hatreds: - Hatred for the Lebanese Forces, within the same Christian community. - Hatred of the Sunni sect, especially because of Rafik Hariri and the immense role he played…

There are many crises around the world, the most prominent of which is the war in Ukraine. We also have many problems in our region, the prominent of which is Iranian terrorism and the mass protests against the repressive Iranian regime. From among all of these crises, US Secretary of State Antony…

In the midst of serious violence in the West Bank, the top United Nations human rights body issued a report on October 20 that concluded that the Israeli occupation appeared illegal under international law because the Israeli government is trying to make it permanent with the establishment of…

This year has brought a lot of innovation in artificial intelligence, which I have tried to keep up with, but too many people still do not appreciate the import of what is to come. I commonly hear comments such as, “Those are cool images, graphic designers will work with that,” or, “GPT-3 is cool,…

The question of China’s “investability” first came up late last year when Beijing’s harsh regulatory crackdowns on big tech and real estate companies wiped trillions of dollars off foreign investors’ books. Financial markets sent an unequivocal message. US-listed Chinese stocks crumbled…

The maritime border demarcation agreement between Lebanon and Israel, which was brokered by the US and approved by Hezbollah and was followed by Nouri al-Maliki (Iran’s man in Iraq) managing to bring his prime ministerial candidate to office after having benefited from Muqtada al-Sadr’s “exit” from…

You have to hand it to Mark Zuckerberg. In the face of criticism about the radical strategic shift he has chosen for Facebook, he is stubbornly focused on turning it into a metaverse company. Other tech billionaires may lash out at dissent, but Zuckerberg remains stoic, tuning out the noise to give…

Patients and their doctors count on cancer screening tests to save lives, and yet a number of large, controlled studies are showing disappointing results for mammography and other mass screening tests. This month, the New England Journal of Medicine published a controversial study that cast doubt…

President Xi Jinping is on a mission to make China the greatest. The country is home to one-fifth of the world's population with 1.4 billion people. It accounts for 18 percent share of the global economy and is the world's second-largest. It aims to overtake the US as the world's largest economy. …

These are very interesting times indeed. Not because the Russian general is harshly and efficiently carrying out the mission to displace the Ukrainians and push them towards darkness and the cold. Not because Britain is searching for a savior and can't find anyone like Churchil or Thatcher. …

Old trees are in big trouble. Whole forests with fire-resistant giant sequoias up to 3,000 years in age have recently gone up in flames. Whole stands of drought-resistant Great Basin bristlecone pine, a species that can reach 5,000 years in age, have been sucked dry by bark beetles. Monumental…