World News Insights: Opinion Articles

More than half a million Americans die of cancer each year, matching the toll of Covid-19 to date on an annual basis and making it one of the nation's biggest killers. But now there’s hope that a simple blood test could change that by detecting tumors earlier when they’re easier to treat. …

Apple Inc. is feeling the heat. Regulators and lawmakers are circling the technology giant, threatening to crack down on its business practices and, conceivably, challenge the fundamental nature of how its mobile platform works. The company, naturally, has mounted a spirited defense claiming its…

Germany’s biggest tabloid, Bild, has reported a major hacking attack from Russia on the German banking system and naming “the state Russian hackers from the ‘Fancy Lazarus’ group” as the culprits. If the attack really took place — there is no official confirmation so far — it will, as usual, be…

What happened recently at the Tunisian parliament is infuriating. A parliamentarian by the Name of Sahbi Samara suddenly leaped from his seat. Confident in his stride, he walked towards his colleague, Free Constitutional Party leader Abir Moussi. He took a few steps and then slapped her, hard…

No wonder the world is preoccupied with the centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. It is not simple for Mao Zedong’s bloc to blow out this candle while still in power, even though the last century has crushed many empires, regimes, ideas, and parties. We are talking about a…

Tempers were flaring at a recent summit of the European Union when Mark Rutte, prime minister of the Netherlands, looked straight at Viktor Orban, his Hungarian counterpart, and said what everybody was thinking: If you don’t share our values, you should take Hungary out of the EU. Rutte’s…

The list of what e-commerce platforms aren’t allowed to do in India has been growing for some time, but the latest prohibition on flash sales has simply gone too far. If the rules get implemented, the entire business model of Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. could come unstuck before their…

True patriotism, especially of the American variety, comes from questioning the history you were born into. As July 4 came, we should all keep this in mind as we question some of the fundamentals of the American story — and we should ask ourselves not whether these reconsiderations are justified,…

When the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) announced its annual meeting to discuss the repercussions of the coronavirus on its programs in the region, we expected to see a decline in the positive results that countries had achieved before the pandemic. Sadly, it turned out…

Your Excellency, Your enlightening opinion to Asharq Al-Awsat last Sunday underscores the importance of cooperation among countries in the region to confront a number of challenges: The development of the capabilities of the Iraqi state and Arab countries to carry out reforms, combat corruption,…

The US labor market is tight. In April, there were 9.3 million job openings but just 6.1 million new hires, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wages are rising as a result. And yet, these conditions should help corporate profits and contain inflationary pressures. No doubt there…

The shift under way in global monetary policy is more subtle evolution than revolution. For all the talk about a pivot toward higher interest rates, conditions are likely to remain relatively lax for years to come in the economies that matter most. Central banks are unlikely to engage in new…