World News Insights: Opinion Articles

After a long endurance - like ‘the patience of Ayoub’ - Saudi Arabia finally did it and decided to correct its relationship with the captive Lebanese state, summoning its ambassador from Beirut, and asking the Lebanese ambassador to leave Riyadh. The use of Ayoub’s metaphor came because of…

The Arabs have become angry with the Lebanese state and they have the right to be. They have for years demanded that it act like a state. For it to defend the rights of its citizens and to deal with brotherly Arab countries based on real interests and Arab agreements and international norms. The…

Pools and tools were hot sellers at the peak of Covid-19 as forced time at home made many people want to upgrade their living space. Some 18 months into the pandemic, case counts are trending down in the US; restaurants, movie theaters and concert venues are open again; and demand for domestic…

A "complex, coordinated and deliberate attack" was how John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, on Monday described a recent drone assault on a US military outpost in Syria that helps train local allies to fight ISIS. It was conducted with as many as five Iranian drones, launched by Iranian…

Lebanon has always been an arena of confrontations; used by the Nasserites for a certain period against the opposite Arab axis. After that, Lebanon came under the control of Palestinian militants who were serving the agenda of the two conflicting Baathist regimes in Syria and Iraq. After Israel…

Tesla Inc. seems to have gotten it right. The usually fantastical Elon Musk is set to give the electric vehicle market and its various players a reality check. At its third quarter earnings call, Tesla said it’s switching to a less expensive type of battery – the central part of the vehicle –…

I titled my medical misinformation podcast Follow the Science, because it was a popular catchphrase and because science is the best method humanity has found for sorting reliable knowledge from misinformation. But following science is no easy feat when there’s so much contention among professionals…

The world’s air carriers are preparing their cabins for take-off. After 18 months in which passenger planes were laid up in desert boneyards, converted into makeshift medical-supplies freighters, and even flown on short return hops just to maintain their pilots’ certifications, the machinery of…

While US attention on immigration has been focused mostly on the large number of Central Americans arriving at the southwestern border over the past few years, the biggest migration flows in the hemisphere are actually happening farther to the south. As the arrival of thousands of Haitians in Del…

Let’s just cut to the chase: Who’s going to replace Mark Zuckerberg as CEO.of Facebook? Before you go, “Whoa there, Kara,” let me just say that the horse is already out of the barn, whether the famed entrepreneur knows it yet or not. He is not going to go in quite the same way that we’re used…

These are the three pillars of the Group of Twenty Summit being held in Italy Saturday. The goal, as the Italian prime minister says, is “a more equal and fair economic recovery to fight new and old injustices.” The key to success is ensuring cooperation between members in facing planet earth’s…

Citigroup Inc., HSBC Holdings Plc, UBS Group AG: Global capital’s gleaming logos dominate the night skyline of Singapore’s central business district. They don’t have the vista from a balcony at the Marina Bay Sands hotel and casino to themselves, however. Nestled among them, competing for eyeballs,…