Alberto Fernández, sworn in as president of Argentina, inherits enormous debt, recession, inflation, a 10 percent unemployment rate and 40 percent poverty rate, reports the Buenos Aires Times. The peso has lost two thirds of its value since 2018. The many challenges compound the hardship in paying...
Israel had three elections since April 2019 that produced no clear winner. To contain the Covid-19 pandemic, leading rivals Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz agreed to share power in a unit government, despite Gantz’s pledge not to join a government led by his rival. “Netanyahu begins his fifth...
Syria’s civil war is winding down with Bashar al-Assad still in power. The country is devastated with more than 400,000 people dead and more than 11 million displaced. One estimate of the war’s damages is $250 billion, and the economic losses could be much higher. Assad, a dictator, and his...
Studies in science and math contribute to innovations and jobs. As of May 10, the United States will extend the time that international students enrolled in select degree programs in science, technology, engineer and math can remain in the country after graduation. “The new rule addresses a program...
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President Vladimir Putin recognizes that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are useful tools for shaping global and national policy – and also for criticizing other world leaders. The second article in this two-part series examines Putin’s two-pronged approach in handling NGOs, a strategy on...
Where did you say you came from? Russian police deal with local protesters while Putin hosts international NGOs
MOSCOW: A series of summit meetings held in Russia during July placed the country front-and-center on...
Global trade is heavily dependent on shipping, with hundreds of port cities worldwide offering open doors to goods from other countries. Unfortunately, writes Michael Richardson, this same openness allows terrorists the possibility of bringing into the target country devastating means of attack –...
US Navy helicopter in the Horn of Africa: New task is to protect ports and sealanes from terrorist attacks.
SINGAPORE: What would happen to global trade if Al-Qaeda or one of its fanatical emulators successfully...
贫穷国家不断拉升全球人口数量，而步入老龄化的发达国家则缺乏年轻劳动力。战略性移民政策可以弥合这种差距，只是，移民们往往会遭受到不平等待遇，一系列社会、经济和外交挑战潜藏其中。记者史蒂文•博洛维克（Steven Borowiec）在文中写道，由于出生率低，韩国（South Korea）现正努力引进移民从事本国人已经不太有兴趣的工作，例如建筑、制造和农业生产；越来越多的韩国年轻人涌入城市，认为那儿的生活才更具魅力；农民们则被迫到欠发达的亚洲国家去寻找外籍妻子。博洛维克指出，作为妻子或是打工者，移民都不享有完全的公民身份。他们无权投票，无权拥有私产，而且，不平等的身份会使他们极易遭受可怕的虐待。...
首尔：今年五月，韩国媒体登载了一则谋杀案，案件虽然残忍，却也不足为怪。报道真正引起关注的是受害人与犯罪人之间的关系以及他们的国籍。一个韩国庆尚（Gyeongsang）省北部的农民，用极其野蛮的方式杀害了自己的越南妻子，而妻子19天前刚刚生下一子。这起谋杀案在韩国人口结构转型的背景下发生，而案件所暗示的是这场转型给韩国社会、经济以及外交所带来的种种挑战。
这不是首例类似的案子。2010年，某越南妇女在新婚一周后被丈夫杀害。2008年，另一名越南妇女则不堪丈夫和婆婆的虐待，...
Mysteriously, merchant ships have sunk continuously at the Sandheads in India's Bay of Bengal, leading many to question why. More mysterious, however, is the fact that ships continue coming here and sinking. Official estimates indicate that at least 81 ships have gone down in this area in the...
The Sandheads in the Bay of Bengal have become the Waterloo of many a ship in the Indian waters. Merchant ships continue to 'sink' at regular intervals here. A vessel is said to have been caught in high tide or choppy...