CHICAGO: Unprecedented global travel and cultural exchange help make the world a smaller place but, ironically, they also stir national pride. Nationalism, combined with business calculation, now threaten to segregate antiquity that belongs to...
Sweden rejected economic lockdowns and border closures as overly cautious in managing the Covid-19 pandemic. The country did ban large gatherings, closed some schools, and told its older population to self-isolate, reports Darren McCaffrey for Euronews. Restaurants, primary schools and most...
A new coronavirus emerged in 2019, attacking populations in multiple ways. One mystery is the high Covid-19 mortality rates among some of the world’s wealthiest nations. Five nations account about for two-thirds of global deaths, and the United States, with 4 percent of the world’s population...
Mystery of discrepancies: Belgium defends the transparency of its health care system, left, in posting the world’s highest Covid-19 mortality rate while US protesters reject economic lockdowns, with many shrugging about need for social distancing or...
As the question of Iraq looms over Washington, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter expresses his concerns with America’s current abandonment of premises of religious principles, respect for international law, and wise alliances, upon which sound foreign policy is based. Mr. Carter outlines the...
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More and more young adults in South Korea are looking to relocate to Canada, America, Australia and elsewhere. This potentially massive emigration would seriously damage the Korean economy and lead to even greater political instability. Citing better educational possibilities, less unemployment,...
Seven out of every ten adults in their 20s and 30s want to emigrate to another country, according to a recent study conducted by the marriage information company Piery.
After surveying 572 clients over the...
As President Bush met with the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao this week, he pressed the issue of American jobs lost to China. But in spite of a recent economic boom, China has its own job-related woes. The country's economic restructuring has caused massive layoffs at older state-owned factories....
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ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, began as an Al Qaeda offshoot in Iraq and is described as more fanatical than the parent group. With up to 5000 troops, ISIS controls an area of Syria and now storms through northern Iraq exploiting...
Historical divide: ISIS, including Iraqi Sunnis discriminated against by the al-Maliki government exact revenge (top); Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi discriminated against liberals and was soon overthrown after massive protests
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Why would the Communist Party, which attempts to censor all media in China, allow and even encourage Chinese citizens to surf the internet? So that people can explore the world, of course! Helping Chinese people learn about the world is the big goal, according to President Jiang Zemin. But the...
China Cyber Cafe
Last summer, when George Vradenburg, former AOL vice president, asked President Jiang Zemin if the Chinese government really encourages people to get online, he must have already known the answer - Yes. Without government...
