World News Insights: Opinion Articles

In the US, Covid cases in the Northeast are increasing again, which has some people worried about yet another surge. This is also one of the most heavily vaccinated parts of the country. While the Covid vaccines have been very effective at stopping hospitalization and death, it’s now clear they…

A US operation to secretly remove malware from networks at home and overseas highlights the new front Washington is opening in its approach to global cyberdefense. It’s a much-needed strategy, but one that ought to be handle delicately if the US is to maintain the cooperation necessary to keep…

Electoral campaign banners and billboards erected by opposition parties have been spreading across Lebanon, denouncing the wretched state of the country and promising change. Looking at these slogans, you ask yourself: What are these dreamers betting on in a country that has been at rock bottom by…

I grew up during the Cold War, when, in elementary school, we still participated in bomb drills. A bell would ring or horn would blow and we would duck and cover, or in some teachers’ classrooms, just put our heads down on our desks. From the videos of utter destruction caused by nuclear weapons…

Last weekend saw the re-election of the man often thought of as Europe’s proto-Putin: Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister who has attacked his country’s democracy while seeking to weaken the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization from within. Yet Orban should be careful…

Who do you think is to blame for the war in Ukraine? For the Blame-America-International the answer is simple: the culprit is the United States. At one end of the Blame-America International (BAI) we find usual suspects such as the Khomeinist mullahs, the Sudanese and Burmese jackboots, the…

The two men called in when the going gets tough in Israel, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev, continue to call on President Mahmoud Abbas to help instill calm, especially during the month of Ramadan, which the Israelis consider a “dangerous” time. Both are…

To mark World Health Day on 7 April, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, lays out a bold new initiative that highlights the need to promote peace and health in order to protect the planet and its people. Last week, I learned from Jarno Habicht,…

Could the re-election campaign of France’s President Emmanuel Macron be any less inspiring? As French voters go to the polls on April 10 for the first of two voting rounds, gone is the enthusiasm or interest in the election of 2017, when Macron came to power as the youngest leader since Napoleon…

Google’s groundbreaking DeepMind unit makes a pledge on its website to “benefit humanity” through research into artificial intelligence. It may need to solve a more practical problem first: allowing staff to speak freely about alleged mistreatment in the workplace. An open letter published last…

“J’accuse…!” This was the famous title of a withering public letter Emile Zola wrote in 1898 to the president of France. In it, the author accused the government, and by extension the whole country, of anti-Semitism. “Ich klage an…!” This, in effect, would be the German version of Zola’s letter…

Europeans enduring an unseasonal April cold snap may be forgiven for thinking winter is back. But for the natural gas market, summer has arrived. April 1 marked the start of a new year in the energy calendar, moving the focus to injecting enough gas into storage during the coming low-demand months…