Inescapable facts
Israel’s coalition government of right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is on the verge of collapse, which is unsurprising. Israeli politics, after all, is among the most fractious in the world,…
Narrow escape
It’s been a narrow escape-a “situation in which an accident or other unfortunate incident is only just avoided”. It’s been a close call – a “narrow escape from danger or…
Renault CEO: We may need more cuts to escape the red zone
Renault may have to cut more costs than initially planned to get out of the red zone and its cash-flow projections are alarming, the French carmaker’s new chief executive said…
Gazans take coastal walks to escape ‘double confinement
At sunrise in Gaza, a coastal path begins to fill up with pedestrians as growing numbers of Palestinians have taken up walking to relieve the stress of being trapped inside…
50 years on, mystery hijacker’s mid-air escape still fascinates Americans
On the eve of Thanksgiving, 1971, a nondescript, 40-something man who called himself Dan Cooper approached the airport counter and bought a one-way ticket for the short flight from Portland…
50 years on, mystery hijacker’s mid-air escape still fascinates Americans
On the eve of Thanksgiving, 1971, a nondescript, 40-something man who called himself Dan Cooper approached the airport counter and bought a one-way ticket for the short flight from Portland…
Poems of those who escaped
“HERE people’s names were not contagious,/ we said they were, it came to be./ There was no sand here growing roots,/ we said there was, it came to be./ Here…
The great escape
WHEN denying bail to the mother of accused murderer Zahir Jaffer, the district court had to counter reams upon reams of case law cited in favour of bail given to…
An inescapable contest?
THERE has been a profusion of books on China from the perspective of the contest for global primacy between the US and the world’s newest superpower. This is understandable as…
How Rusal escaped the noose of US sanctions
They were supposed to be the toughest sanctions the United States had ever imposed on a Russian oligarch. Seventeen days later, Washington watered them down. On April 23, the US…
