World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The stock market has lately soured on the technology industry. Stock prices of many of the largest companies are down this year, some slightly — shares of Apple and Google have fallen more than 6 percent — and some stupendously: Facebook's parent company, Meta, and Netflix have lost about a third…

Imagine a dystopian Olympics. Maybe it would have athletes skiing on fake snow down parched slopes. Robots mixing cocktails, making dumplings and disinfecting the air. Events staffed by workers not in sportswear but hazmat suits. Instead of a stadium you are eager to sit in, a bubble you cannot…

The news from Afghanistan is genuinely heartbreaking; it is an affront to everything human in contemporary human beings. Loaves of bread are, in the literal sense, lacking. Hoards of people are flocking to embassies as they search for a way out of their country. However, only four and a half months…

While our region was expecting an active European role in the Iranian nuclear file in Vienna, in order to “rationalize” the American rush, as well as to assume a pivotal task in the process of soothing the crisis in some Arab countries, such as Libya or Lebanon, it became clear to us that the Old…

One of the best moments in “Pulp Fiction” comes when Samuel L. Jackson is questioning a hapless victim and breaks off to shoot someone else in the head. “Oh I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?” he says. In the same way, it’s very easy for what now looks like the possible imminent invasion…

Diplomatic efforts to forestall Russia’s threatened attack on Ukraine still aren’t over — and it appears that discussing Ukraine’s future relationship with NATO isn’t quite as unthinkable as the US and its allies have maintained. That’s good. Making a success of any such approach won’t be easy but,…

Think your life has been unadventurous over the past few years, as the pandemic and closed borders have kept you bottled up at home? Spare a thought for the mining sector. An industry built on the romance and horror of finding riches on the wild frontier — from the Klondike to Kimberley, Kolyma…

News coming from the nuclear talks in Vienna shows that the topic of a prisoner exchange between Iran and the US has taken priority over the talk on monitoring Iran’s nuclear program. According to the officials of the Iranian regime, these two topics are now being negotiated at the same time. …

I don’t know if Russia will in the end invade Ukraine or not. I do know that if it does, it will start a new cold war and it will affect the world economy in a big way. Here are three big consequences that are coming. First, the Ukraine invasion will formally start a new cold war between…

The US Navy is currently conducting one of the largest maritime exercises in recent history, with more than 60 nations taking part. Running through Feb. 17, the drills will cover waters off the Middle East, Southwest Asia and East Africa. Known as both Cutlass Express 2022 and International…

Last week, Ukrainian legislators held up the flags of countries providing military and diplomatic assistance to Ukraine as it faces the threat of a Russian invasion. The flags of the United States, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Poland and Turkey all jostled for space. One, however, was conspicuous by…

The rapid spread of Omicron across the nation — and the finding that vaccines continue to provide strong protection against severe disease — brings Covid-19 one step closer, perhaps, to truly earning its place on the list of diseases that have been tamed by vaccines. These include polio, measles,…