Surveys find solid disapproval of adultery in every country, yet technology and social media, modern lifestyles and flexible gender roles, films and news reports about the affairs of politicians and celebrities make the activity more visible worldwide. “Historically, most cultures consider the...
Adultery on trial: From Chinese leader Bo Xilai, with wife Gu Kailai, to a Pakistani commoner, adulterers in some nations face punishment and shame
NEW YORK: Adultery, despite near universal disapproval, has become more visible and prevalent...
Samoa is an independent nation in the Pacific and nearby American Samoa is a US territory. Many on these islands, like others throughout the world, once dismissed measles as a harmless childhood disease, and now both contend with the disease. An outbreak began in September, disrupting Samoan...
The internet is a required tool for most workers in advanced economies, helpful for connecting with others and exploring data, systems and methods. A new law in Russia allows the government to isolate the country from parts of the global internet. “The government says the law aims to keep the...
The nations negotiating to curb Iran’s nuclear research program are divided over strategy, including the intensity of inspections and the schedule for lifting sanctions. Iran is divided, too, explains Robert A. Manning, a senior fellow of the Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security at the...
Who calls the shots? Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, meets with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, top; Ali Khamenei with commanders of powerful Revolutionary Guards
WASHINGTON: To call it cognitive dissonance would be...
Donald Trump pulled the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for Iran's nuclear program in May 2018, insisting the agreement was not tough enough. He then reinstated sanctions and urged Iranian leaders to renegotiate another deal. But Iran is in no mood to negotiate and...
Dealmakers: Iran’s Hassan Rouhani turns to Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping for trade and other deals and rejects overtures from Donald Trump after he withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
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Hospitals face challenges in preventing one patient’s infection from spreading to other patients. Nayan Chanda, founding editor of YaleGlobal Online, writes about the troubling phenomenon of patients being successfully treated before succumbing to hospital-acquired infections. “This problem is not...
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A growing concern about globalization’s negative effects on national economies worldwide has some governments re-thinking long-held economic ideologies. The difficulty in creating jobs within the context of an expanding global employee base has some longtime champions of free trade, including the...
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Two Florida brothers, naturalized US citizens, were arrested in November for trying to obtain explosives and carry out an attack in New York City. Prosecutors allege the men had read Inspire, a magazine in English said to be published by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula for encouraging terrorism...
HAIFA: While politicians in the West debate whether, following the death of Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda is “decimated” or not, the terrorist organization has successfully applied a tactic that makes prevention against attacks more difficult. Lone-...
