A British court ruling that has set back the London Metal Exchange's sweeping warehouse reforms has handed CME Group an unexpected windfall just weeks before it launches an audacious challenge…
That a large number of Muscovites speak out against the Crimea referendum amid a virtual split of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea is a fact that has found its best…
A rare US test of its strategic oil reserves may be just coincidentally timed with the most serious stand-off with Russia in decades, but the underlying message of the move…
To diagnose Saudi Arabia’s fear instincts, one would have to travel back to 1979. That year saw the Iranian revolution, and Ayatollah Khomeini’s subsequent talk of ‘exporting’ the revolution which…
How gender is imaged within societies and the ideas attached with this in many ways determine how women are treated and what status they are given. The recent hype on…
Vladimir Putin is no wimp. When he was challenged at Sochi with repeated terror attacks – so that he would not be able to hold his dream winter Olympics there…
The furore created by the opposition parties last week over the government’s policy on Syria has died down as abruptly as it began. Neither side has won any laurels from…
Last Friday, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) finally did what it should have done a decade ago when the first drones flew over North Waziristan. In a statement…
Something quite remarkable happened in Egypt last week. And no, it wasn’t Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al Sisi’s long-expected announcement about discarding his uniform and putting himself forward as a…
The Lord gave us some of the world’s most fascinating rivers, the tallest mountains, and a broad expanse of the bountiful sea. What the Lord did not give us, for…
