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January 02, 2019
The euro at twenty
January 01, 2019
An unfortunate way to win
The location and timing of the bus attack in Cairo on Friday night, which killed four people, including three Vietnamese tourists, could not have been worse. It happened near the Pyramids, always a big draw for tourists. It is also the height of the tourist season and just as the tourism industry was picking up after the doldrums following the 2011 Arab Spring. In addition, it comes as the country’s main Christian minority, the Copts, who have in the past been terrorist targets themselves, prepare to celebrate Orthodox Christmas in early January.No one has claimed responsibility for the roadside bomb that detonated near a wall as the bus was passing by, but by all accounts the attack was an act of terrorism. Consequently, the day after the attack, Egypt’s Interior Ministry announced it...
December 31, 2018
Terrorism at year’s end
December 30, 2018
Sudan’s Arab Spring
THE Japanese government has come under widespread international criticism for its decision to resume commercial whaling. Since 1986, the International Whaling Commission has effectively banned the hunting of whales, although Japan and other whaling nations, including Norway and Iceland were allowed to hunt ‘for scientific purposes’ some species of these undersea leviathans, that were not considered to be endangered.
Japan has now also withdrawn from the IWC and, even though it is geographically very far from the North Atlantic, joined the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission which, besides Norway and Iceland, is also made up of Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
While the IWC’s with its now-88 members, including landlocked countries such as Laos, the Czech Republic, Austria and...
December 28, 2018
Whale wailing
December 27, 2018
Economic winners and losers
December 26, 2018
Better disaster relief required
December 25, 2018
The ayatollahs’ phony show trials
December 24, 2018
A plan ready for rejection
Until a man and a woman were arrested in connection with the string of drone sightings that brought Gatwick Airport to a standstill, the airport had closed, opened, closed and reopened again, all within three days. What boggles the mind is that British police and the armed forces were, until the arrests, at a loss to figure out who were flying the drones, what their motive was, how to apprehend them or whether the airport would close yet again. That this happened in the UK’s second largest airport during the busiest time of the holiday season, causing travel chaos for hundreds of thousands of passengers, made many wonder how something like this could ever happen in the first place.Before the arrests, the authorities were at their wits’ end as to what to do. Police considered shooting...
December 23, 2018
Gatwick bedlam
