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Enrique Tarrio, center, leader of the Proud Boys, uses a megaphone while counter-protesting people gathered at the Torch of Friendship to commemorate the one year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2021 in Miami, Florida.(TNS)
Culture & Social Affairs

How ‘Freedom of Speech’ is Weaponized to Fight Anti-Racism

Anti-racism is now routinely framed as a threat to freedom of speech, but the tactic is not new. In 1965, William F. Buckley Jr. argued in a…

Gavan Titley 22 June , 2021
Original clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines were to win emergency use approval. Follow-up study has been less than systematic. (TNS)
Science & Technology

Blood Clots Aren't the Only Vaccine Side Effects Worth Studying

One can hardly blame people for being worried about the new COVID-19 vaccines when there are so many anecdotal reports of weird side effects —…

Faye Flam 21 June , 2021
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Culture & Social Affairs

“Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said”

This American book, and many of the major American comments about it, seem to still have not figured out the real Edward Said. The deeply rooted…

Mohammad Ali Salih 21 June , 2021
A person scans a QR code at a bitcoin ATM on June 16, 2021 in Chiltuipan, El Salvador. Playa El Zonte has been named as the Bitcoin capital, around 500 families promote the use of the cryptocurrency to help the economy of a place with poverty issues. (Getty)
Business & Economy

Bitcoin from Terrorism to El Salvador

World Bank has rejected El Salvador’s decision to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, noting that it would have dire economic consequences. It refused to…

Hala Ahmed Nasr 21 June , 2021
Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. (Getty)
Politics

Washington’s Dangerous New Consensus on China

The unprecedented global challenges that the United States faces today—climate change, pandemics, nuclear proliferation, massive economic inequality,…

Bernie Sanders 21 June , 2021
Migrant Worker Marching signs and banners asking for better labor rights and more justice for domestic Migrant workers. , in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 1, 2021 duing the International Labor Day. (Getty)
Politics

Taiwan Under Fire for Racist Policies Toward Southeast Asian Workers

Taiwan is undergoing its worst coronavirus outbreak since the pandemic began. It’s been accompanied by an ongoing surge in racism toward Southeast…

Nick Aspinwall 20 June , 2021
A volunteer of the project Covid Sem Fome (Covid Without Hunger) carries boxes with water to be given to homeless people together with a meal at the international renown tourist attraction of the Lapa Arches, in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 05, 2021. (TNS)
Business & Economy

Global Economic Development: Three Lessons to Apply As We Pull Out of The Pandemic

No country has escaped the setbacks caused by the pandemic, but its impact on low-income countries is particularly devastating. The World Bank…

Kate Schecter 20 June , 2021
Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, and U.S. President Joe Biden meet for talks at the Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 16, 2021. (TNS)
Politics

Can Putin Shift Into Legacy Rethink?

Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line: The instant analysis of…

Martin Schram 19 June , 2021

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A Palestinian girl with a national flag painted on her face, plays amidst the rubble of buildings destroyed by last month's Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Palestinian enclave, on June 19, 2021. (AFP)

World in Photos

Anti-Olympics group's members carry banners during their protest march, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan June 19, 2021. (Reuters)

World in Photos

guests attend a live broadcast of the anniversary production of the opera "Der Freischuetz" by Carl Maria von Weber, performed by the Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus, outside of the Konzerthaus Berlin on the 200th anniversary of the Konzerthaus Berlin on June 18, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. (Getty)

World in Photos

This handout photograph taken and released by the Investigative Committee of Russia on June 19, 2021, shows the wreckage of a L-410 plane that crashed near the Tanay aerodrome, which provides parachuting services, in the Kemerovo Region, also known as Kuzbass. - Four people were killed and four others seriously injured during the training flight of the L-410 plane that carried 19 people.(AFP).

World in Photos

David Marshall of Scotland watches on as a header from John Stones of England hits the post during the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship Group D match between England and Scotland at Wembley Stadium on June 18, 2021 in London, England.(Getty)

World in Photos

Outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Brazil, June 18, 2021.(Reuters)

Egypt's Minister of Finance Mohamed Maait at the 2019 Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum, at the Sirius Park of Science and Art. (Getty)
Business & Economy

For the First Time — Egypt Debuts Islamic Finance Market

As the Egyptian parliament has approved a sovereign sukuk law this month, Egypt is now officially entering the Islamic finance market for the first…

Menna A. Farouk 18 June , 2021
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US President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Politics

Putin rides high after Alaska

18 August 2025

Seven instances that showed the Russian leader had the upper hand during his meeting with Trump

Robert Ford
David Corenswet in 'Superman'
Culture & Social Affairs

The new 'Superman' is not as pro-Palestine as some think

20 August 2025

The depiction of a land-grabbing colonialist power turning on its weaker neighbour feels aimed at Israel, its advocates say. Yet supporters of Palestine should be up in arms, too.

Samer Abou Hawwach
US Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack, also special envoy to Syria, fields questions from journalists after meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on August 18, 2025. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Politics

Lebanon at a crossroads over Hezbollah arms

18 August 2025

US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack used his latest visit to Beirut to deliver what was, in effect, an ultimatum to the Lebanese government, though he took care not to present it as such

Michael Harari
A Saudi Aramco rig in the HSBH field north of Dhahran in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. AFP
Business & Economy

The Arab Gulf’s gas moment

21 August 2025

The Arab Gulf is stepping into a pivotal role in global energy markets—not just as a swing oil supplier, but as a gas powerhouse

Neil Quilliam
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes an address following an emergency cabinet meeting on Gaza at 10 Downing Street in London on July 29, 2025. Toby Melville / AFP
Politics

Performative politics: Palestine recognition pledges ring hollow

18 August 2025

The moves by France, the UK and other Western states appear to be more about appeasing domestic critics with symbolic gestures rather than a genuine attempt to change Israel's behaviour

Christopher Phillips

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