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Ending the Afghan war
Signaling US President Donald Trump’s interest in finding a negotiated end to the Afghan war, Zalmay Khalilzad, America’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, held discussions with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah in Kabul last week.It is too early to say whether Khalilzad will succeed in his mission, but a new YouGov survey reveals that a majority of Americans would support drawing US involvement to a close and bringing the troops back home. The Afghan people are even more anxious to see an end to the war which entered its 18th year last week. For them the situation on the ground only gets worse with every passing day.“Every day, more than 300 people are killed in Afghanistan, sometimes by foreign forces and sometimes by government forces...
October 15, 2018

Ending the Afghan war

The trouble with long flights
The world’s longest non-stop commercial flight has ended successfully - from Singapore to New York, 15,000 kilometers in 17 hours and 52 minutes.What is forgotten is that there are other planes perfectly capable of flying such long distances. Qantas, for example, launched a 17-hour non-stop service from Perth to London earlier this year.Such long-haul flights go beyond the typical flight patterns of take off, eat, watch a movie, rest and land. A 17-hour flight is a length of time difficult for many individuals. Parents with infants, passengers with disabilities and who are not at their peak of health face challenges to their comfort and safety on ultra-long-haul flights.For routes to be viable, they require people to buy tickets. That depends on passengers being willing to sit in their...
October 14, 2018

The trouble with long flights

US student strikes fear into Israel
LARA Alqasem, a 22-year-old American student, is not the first foreigner to be detained at Ben Gurion International Airport. Over the last several months, many people who are critics of Israel have been forced to make a stopover at the Tel Aviv airport’s detention facility. However, Alqasem who arrived in Israel on Oct. 2, has been detained longer than anyone else. Just as serious, she is the only one who has been asked by the Israeli authorities to renounce her criticism of Israel. Only then, will she be free to enter. Alqasem landed at Ben Gurion Airport last week with a valid student visa and was registered to study human rights at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. But she was barred from entering the country based on suspicions that she’s an activist in the Boycott, Divestment, and...
October 13, 2018

US student strikes fear into Israel

Have financial regulators and politicians done enough?
BALI is one of the world’s most beautiful conference locations. However, the movers and shakers of international finance who traveled there this week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank may not have been in the mood to appreciate the exotic scenery. In its latest Financial Stability Report, the IMF has warned of “dangerous undercurrents”. These stem variously from the rising trade war, potential defaults on ballooning debts in emerging markets, not least Turkey, and still booming asset prices at bourses around the world. Within 48 hours of the report, market boards in Asia began to show red, leading European exchanges sharply into negative territory. All this, despite the fact that the US economy is recording some of its most positive figures...
October 12, 2018

Have financial regulators and politicians done enough?

Simmering South China Sea dispute
There is a simmering geopolitical pot that is likely to boil over dangerously if the heat beneath it is turned up, probably even by a fraction.Beijing’s claims to rocky outcrops and reefs in the South China Sea, which it has occupied and fortified, have been thrown out by international arbitrators. But possession being nine-tenths of the law, the Chinese government has established military bases on them and is arguing that they represent the edge of Chinese territory. Yet these disputed reefs and rocks are variously claimed by Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.Washington has led the refusal to accept Beijing’s territorial ambitions. From its point of view, most of the South China Sea is made up of international waters, which mean that there is freedom of navigation...
October 11, 2018

Simmering South China Sea dispute

Brutal honesty makes good science
The expression “Never say never” should be a treasured maxim of the scientific establishment. The whole basis of current scientific knowledge is the willingness to doubt, to question, to re-check and re-examine, even the very foundations of an accepted precept. Thus scientific advances have by no means been constant. There have been retreats as researchers made new discoveries that undermined or completely negated established theories. The core quality of good science is brutal honesty.However, being a research scientist is a career like any other. Unless the discipline is at the sharp edge of investigation into the practical aspects of the likes of nanotechnology or genomes, which attract substantial private as well as public funding, research has to be paid for and the scientists...
October 10, 2018

Brutal honesty makes good science

Shredding a million dollars
Fine art pictures are an international currency used by an elite few. Like the banknotes of any country, the pictures that are bought and sold by collectors are worth whatever other collectors are prepared to pay for them. And the traders in this rarified currency are the handful of major auction houses which these days charge both buyers and sellers handsomely for their services.While the work of some painters or indeed schools of artists in particular periods can fall out of fashion, by and large the value of fine art is a one-way street. It always grows. But paintings and sculptures are vulnerable items. The art world still mourns the exquisite pieces of art that were destroyed in the Second World War, not least those that were vacuumed up from occupied Europe by Nazi leaders, including...
October 09, 2018

Shredding a million dollars

Suu Kyi and Nobel Laureates
The Norwegian Nobel Committee and Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi were very much in the news last week for two reasons.First, the committee announced this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners — Nadia Murad of Iraq and Denis Mukwege of Congo — in Oslo on Friday. Second was the announcement by the Nobel Foundation that Suu Kyi’s Peace Prize will not be withdrawn as demanded by many people around the world including some Nobel Peace Laureates. They feel Suu Kyi’s silence at the relentless anti-Rohingya violence in Myanmar does not match her image as a fearless human rights activist that won her the peace prize.However, Lars Heikensten, the head of the Nobel Foundation, would go only as far as describing some of Suu Kyi’s actions as the civilian leader of Myanmar as...
October 08, 2018

Suu Kyi and Nobel Laureates

Case of the missing Interpol head
It’s one of those stories that make readers do a double take: The head of Interpol, the intelligence organization that can supposedly find anybody anywhere in the world, has gone missing.Meng Hongwei of China and his family reside in Lyon, France, the seat of Interpol headquarters. His wife reported him missing after he took a trip to China on Sept. 25. He hasn’t been heard from since.The mystery surrounding the disappearance of the world’s top international policeman is not just that he’s gone missing. There is, for one, the statement Interpol issued about Meng, that it was “aware of media reports in connection with the alleged disappearance”. That is a stunning statement. Interpol’s chief has vanished but the organization knows about it only through the media. It is...
October 07, 2018

Case of the missing Interpol head

A lesser Palestinian state
NOT surprisingly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not commit to a two-state solution that US President Donald Trump recently voiced support for. Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition simply will not enter into such negotiations that they believe would place Israel at untenable risk. His education minister and head of the right-wing Jewish Home Party, Naftali Bennett, has said on social media: “As long as the Jewish Home is in the government there will not be a Palestinian state established”. One of Netanyahu’s closest allies in his party, Tzachi Hanegbi, said on Israel Army Radio: “There will not be a state in the classic form,” suggesting a relationship more akin to the US and its territory, Puerto Rico. We know how that turned out. The US, it will be remembered,...
October 06, 2018

A lesser Palestinian state

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