Greek islanders desperate as crisis strikes from all sides
Guests are coming to the Greek island of Thassos, but not enough of them. And certainly not enough of the big spenders who would ease Greek fears in the face…
More than a personality clash
THE civil-military saga continues to be the biggest story coming out of Pakistan in the aftermath of the Kartarpur opening. Many of the guests invited for the ceremony haven’t stopped talking about all…
The Doomsday Clock
In 1947 members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) developed the symbolic Doomsday Clock after the horrific US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — which remain the greatest…
Apocalypse when?
OBSERVERS of the current tensions between Moscow and Washington, amid veiled threats of nuclear warfare and warnings of massive retaliation, are divided over whether the present predicament is less dire…
How Russia looked the wrong way as Ukraine invaded
In the hours before Ukrainian soldiers stormed across Russia’s western border, there was no sign from Moscow that anything was amiss. At midnight at the start of Aug. 6, the…
From capture to fiction
At 3:30 am on February 26, 2019, Mirage 2000 fighter jets of the Indian Air Force (IAF) crossed the Line of Control (LoC), initiating airstrikes on Balakot. At 05:45 am…
The tea is still fantastic
As the 18th Lok Sabha elections in India draw closer, a propaganda campaign for Indian PM Narendra Modi has been unleashed by various segments of Indian society. On January 8,…
A long night in Turkey
With the world in a state of chaos, one is hardly able to absorb one major event when another explosion elsewhere totally distracts our attention. The truck attack on a…
UN hopes to boost aid to Aden as Yemen frontline moves north
The United Nations hopes to massively scale up aid to Aden now that fighting has all but stopped in the Yemeni port city, the UN official in charge of humanitarian…
Only prayer of winning the war
A Picture generating optimism is emerging now that former army chief Gen Kayani’s reported procrastination is no more and the North Waziristan operation’s ground phase has been launched following weeks…
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