The 21st century has ushered in less controlling social attitudes about sexual and gender identity, and wider acceptance has both reduced stigma and discrimination while revealing the prevalence of sexual attraction and gender categories that extend beyond traditional male/female relationships and...
Diversity and human rights: Transgendered Indians struggle for dignity, and LGBTQ supporters demonstrate in the United States
NEW YORK: With its antecedents brewing for decades, the 21st century has ushered in a sexual, gender and identity...
The United States has been reticent about over-involvement in Middle East conflicts in recent years, notwithstanding the April 14 airstrikes on Syria in response to a chemical attack. Russia filled the vacuum in Syria with support from Iran and Turkey, explains author and military strategist Ehsan...
Pawns and power: Kurdish people fight the Islamic State, but demand independence, while Iran’s Hassan Rouhani, Turkey’s Recep Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin have other plans
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA: Western media are preoccupied by limited airstrikes from...
China has been a formidable competitor to its neighbors in Southeast Asia as well as the West. Since China's entry into the WTO in 2001, jobs and manufacturing plants from Southeast Asia were moved to low-cost China. Unlike China, Southeast Asia has not created a single international brand,...
SINGAPORE From automobiles to semiconductors, China is fast catching up with the rest of the world in manufacturing prowess, making it a formidable competitor for exporters everywhere. But does its rise necessarily spell doom for Southeast...
In an investigation by journalists at the British weekly Observer, emails and internal memos have been uncovered that implicate President Bush's administration in deliberately covering up scientific evidence that links oil and gas emissions to global warming. For years environmental...
White House officials have undermined their own government scientists' research into climate change to play down the impact of global warming, an investigation by The Observer can reveal.
The disclosure will anger environment campaigners...
Museums around the US are attempting to move their collections into cyberspace. Once completed, digitization projects such as that at the American Museum of Natural History will allow anyone around the globe with a connection to the internet to browse and study images and notes on millions of...
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“Bem-vindo” – or welcome in Portuguese – is the new greeting for South Florida. The struggling state was hit hard by the property bubble collapse and the sub-prime crisis, so now its real estate, tourism and shopping centers are a bargain for neighbors to the south - Brazilians. Brazil, poised to...
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Modern global crises – economic, environmental, security or other forms– can strike with sudden force, quickly leap frogging borders. The world desperately needs leaders to manage the response or better yet prevent problems in the first place. This YaleGlobal series examines the potential of the...
China rises again: China displays its naval might (top); Chinese emperor Qianlong in imperial heyday
HONG KONG: After decades of watching China follow Deng Xiaoping’s dictum of taoguang yanghui – usually translated as “bide our time and build up our...
Germany’s ambassador to India has announced that his country welcomes skilled workers from India and noted that immigration procedures and education regulations have been eased, reports the Times of India. One catch: Ambassador Michael Steiner urged Indians interested in studying or working in...
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