Peace or genocide pause?
WHETHER it is a comprehensive peace or a mere pause in the genocide to secure the release of Israeli hostages will become apparent in the coming days. What is clear…
The Muslim cause
THE exhausted, brutalised people of Gaza have been promised a let-up in Israel’s relentless assaults at numerous points over the past two years. Yet the bombs have continued to drop.…
German firm gives ‘second life’ to used EV batteries
A German company is putting used electric vehicle batteries to new use by stacking them into fridge-size units that homes and businesses can use to store their excess solar and…
Bid to relocate US Space Shuttle Discovery faces museum pushback
Tucked inside President Donald Trump’s flagship tax and spending bill last month was a little-noticed provision to relocate the iconic Space Shuttle Discovery from a museum outside Washington to Houston.…
Airstrikes, drones, tariffs: being US friend not what it used to be
Donald Trump returned to the White House vowing always to put America first. In recent days, even longtime US allies have found out the hard way that friendship has limits.…
Dubai developers bring construction in-house as demand surges
In a city famed for transforming desert into skyline, developers are taking the building process into their own hands as they seek to turbo-charge a property boom and maximise cash…
Even as markets rally, Trump’s policymaking causes market angst
As Wall Street puts April’s tariff shakeout in the rearview mirror and indexes set record highs, investors remain wary of US President Donald Trump’s rapid-fire, sometimes chaotic policymaking process and…
The real pause
LET us begin with some clichés: Afghanistan has always been the playground of global power rivalries. It will remain so. Pakistan and Afghanistan, at the intersection of South Asia, Central…
Ceasefire a relocation ruse?
A TIMELINE to the cessation of the genocide in the Gaza Strip, even a 60-day ceasefire itself, is likely to be announced on Monday during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s White House…
Because they can
What enables a man to walk into the abyss of taking the life of a living, breathing individual – and call it victory? Revenge? Honour? Ego? Let me not beat…
