Resentment over trade, foreign aid and other global endeavors along with promises to put America first helped Donald Trump win the US presidency. But highly infectious diseases do not stop at national borders, and “global health is a humanitarian duty, one with strategic implications,” explains...
Dropping the guard: The Trump administration has yet to appoint a director for US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to replace Tom Frieden who resigned in January; swift communications are part of the effort to stop the spread of Ebola in...
The May 8 anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe has long been celebrated as a triumph of democracy over fascism. The truth is more complicated, argues researcher Ruth Lawlor. As Germany fought for white supremacy, killing millions of Jews, other European nations conscripted African and...
Catalyst for civil rights: More than a million African Americans served during the Second World War, but returned home to discrimination in many communities (Source: National Archives and undated photo)
NEW HAVEN: May 8 marks the anniversary of the...
The United States may represent 36 percent of the world’s total military expenditures and North Korea does not approach 2 percent, with most military analysts assuming the smaller country would quickly be defeated. Such assessments focus on the quantifiable, such as hardware, rather than less...
In parts of the Arab world, integration into the world economy has meant incorporating English sometimes at the expense of Arabic. As English has become the language of commerce, it has likewise dominated education. In the United Arab Emirates, both English and Arabic are taught from primary...
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South Korea has lost patience with North Korea after the nation stepped up missile and nuclear tests. “Kim Jong Un, who came to power in December 2011, is impatient to gain recognition as a nuclear state, apparently regarding this as a means to guarantee survival of his state and own life,"...
Missile grin: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a bunker for a ballistic missile launch; South Korean President Park Geun Hye urges North Koreans to defect
SEOUL: In August, a flash flood in parts of North Korea bordering China wiped out entire...
The United Arab Emirates ranks among the 10 wealthiest nations in the world, but the wealth is not spread equally among the population of 9 million, 90 percent of which are migrant workers. The country prospered by relying on low-paid migrant workers, many from South Asia who work on short-term...
Slowdown? UAE economic growth dipped to 1.8 percent in 2016, and the government strives for less reliance on migrant labor and more startups like Souqalmal.com, a UAE-based financial comparison site founded by CEO Ambareen Musa
SINGAPORE: One of the...
