Dubai’s state-owned DP World looks to take over companies to push political agenda
James M Dorsey | The $6.85 billion acquisition in 2006 of Peninsular & Oriental (P&O) Steam Navigation Company, a storied British shipping and logistics company,...
Banning primary education in English might backfire on Iran
Andrew Korybko | Iran banned the teaching of English in both government and non-government primary schools. The decree comes after a week of protests at...
Is the Saudi Crown Prince really promoting moderate Islam?
James M. Dorsey | Plans to open a Salafi missionary centre in the Yemeni province of Al Mahrah on the border with Oman and Saudi Arabia raise...
Mumbai’s caste chaos shows the need for a “Third Force”
Andrew Korybko | Violent caste chaos exploded in India’s western economic hub of Mumbai last week after Hindu ultra-nationalists clashed with low-caste Dalits who were...
Trump turning on Pakistan highlights American naivety
Eric Margolis | Henry Kissinger rightly noted that it’s often more dangerous being an ally of the United States than its enemy. The latest victim...
“I’m not racist,” claims Trump
AFP | President Donald Trump insisted Sunday that he was "not a racist," after his reported denunciation of immigration from "shithole" countries triggered a global...
Our Trump Card
Ikram Sehgal | Because of US sanctions economic assistance has been suspended before, military sales terminated, etc. Reacting to US President Donald Trump's New Year...
We will make promises to Zainab and then forget all of them…
Khawar Latif Khan | And it happened again, for over a hundredth time in the very same district, a child got abducted, raped, killed, and...
What is the future of Russo-British Trade
Haneul Na’avi | “Mock on; thou hast a place of refuge; I am alone, an exile soon to be.” —Euripides, “Medea” The 29 November Russo-British Business...
11 year old schoolgirl attacked over hijab
AFP | An 11-year-old girl was assaulted in Toronto Friday by a man who twice tried to cut off her hijab with scissors and then fled, police...
UN report finds Iran in violation of Yemen arms embargo
AFP | Iran has violated a UN arms embargo by failing to block supplies to Yemen's Huthi rebels of ballistic missiles that were fired at...
UK blames protestors as Trump cancels London trip
AFP | The British government blamed the threat of mass protests for President Donald Trump's decision Friday to cancel a visit to London to open...