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Disaster in Italy
The tragic loss of life from the collapse of the Genoa motorway bridge is all the more moving because of the spectacular nature of the disaster. An entire 200-meter section crashed down along with one of the supporting towers, falling along with trucks and automobiles into the river and land 45 meters below. The final death toll may be over 50, including at least three children.The distinctive 1.2 kilometer Morandi Bridge spanned the Polcevera River on the A10 autostrada, which is a key north-south route to France and the Italian Riviera. It carried some 25 million vehicles a year, both tourists and commercial, many of the latter trucks running from Genoa’s important port. The income from the A10 tolls runs into tens of billions of euros every year. Concrete also crashed down onto two...
August 16, 2018

Disaster in Italy

China and its Muslim communities
CHINA has denied a claim that it has rounded up a million Muslim Uighurs from its Xinjiang region and is holding them in camps. The claim was made by a US lawyer, Gay McDougall, at a UN meeting last week. While the Chinese denial was to be expected, the manner in which it was made was a surprise.McDougall made her allegation at a Geneva meeting of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. China sent a delegation of no less than 50 officials to the gathering. On Monday its head, Hu Lianhe insisted that everyone in Xinjiang enjoyed equal rights and that the assertion that a million Uighurs were detained was completely untrue. But Hu then went on to add that “those deceived by religious extremism” were being “assisted by resettlement and reeducation”.It is reported...
August 15, 2018

China and its Muslim communities

Is Test cricket doomed?
The second Test match against England at Lord’s has seen further heartache for the Indian team which went into the five match series with the top ICC Test match ranking, ahead of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. A long-lackluster England held fifth place. But with two defeats, the Indian team has a lot of rebuilding to do, and quickly. Captain Virat Kohli said he is “not proud” of the innings and 59 run defeat at Lord’s.But despite the profound disappointment of Indian supporters and the almost disbelief of jubilant England fans, the five-day game played by the world’s ten first-class Test teams remains an enthralling spectacle. But its future has to be in serious doubt. Forty-one years ago the international cricket establishment was challenged by the World Series Cricket...
August 14, 2018

Is Test cricket doomed?

South Sudan deal: Hopes and misgivings
Thousands of residents of South Sudan’s capital Juba are celebrating a peace deal signed by President Salva Kiir and his ousted deputy Riek Machar, which rekindles hope that the guns will finally fall silent in a country devastated by civil war.A combination of vicious conflict, drought and famine has been making the situation in the world’s youngest nation especially grim since 2013 when a Kiir-Machar tussle for power degenerated into a broader ethnic conflict.The second power-sharing agreement was signed on Aug. 5 in Khartoum. The irony of Sudan, of which South Sudan was a part, hosting a conference to bring peace and stability to the latter was not lost on anyone. The largely Christian and African South had to wage Africa’s longest civil war to win freedom from the Muslim and Arab...
August 13, 2018

South Sudan deal: Hopes and misgivings

Malaysia should not quit over Flight MH370
Even though there were only four French nationals aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 when it disappeared more than four years ago, French aviation authorities want to open a new investigation after the Malaysians shuttered theirs.While there is yet to be an official announcement of the investigation from the French government, according to a report in Le Parisien newspaper, the Gendarmerie of Air Transport wants to examine data from satellite operator Inmarsat, which tracked the plane before it went missing in March 2014.On the other hand, even though there were 50 Malaysian passengers aboard, Malaysia’s 400-page final report issued on July 31 closed without being able to explain what happened to its Boeing 777 with 239 aboard.Four lives from one country versus 50 from another but it...
August 12, 2018

Malaysia should not quit over Flight MH370

Rashida
America’s first Muslim woman in Congress
Rashida Tlaib is not a household name and might never become one but she has landed in the history books by becoming the first Muslim woman elected to the US Congress. Even though Tlaib won the Democratic primary on Tuesday, her Congressional seat is not guaranteed, but with no Republicans on the ballot in the overwhelmingly Democratic district in and around Detroit, Tlaib will run unopposed in the general election come November. When Tlaib eventually does take her seat she will have broken one of the last religious barriers in Congress. Being the first Muslim woman and Palestinian-American to serve in the US Congress is an honor for Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians. All three would like to believe Tlaib won because she is a Muslim Arab. That is probably not the case. Most likely she won...
August 11, 2018

America’s first Muslim woman in Congress

Strong evidence of bestial crimes
IT is just one of the many insanities of the terrorists of Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) that they made video recordings of their horrific crimes and published them on the Internet. They hailed these monstrous images as brilliant and compelling propaganda, which proved to the world that they were ruthless and unstoppable. Well, “ruthless” these thugs definitely have been, but “unstoppable”, they have not. Their spurious claim to some sort of statehood has been destroyed. The remnants of their killing bands now cower in their final lairs in Syria and Iraq, sneaking out to murder and maim whenever they can. They are once again terrorists in the classic mold, reliant on the shelter of those who approve their blasphemous claptrap or those they can intimidate into helping them. As...
August 10, 2018

Strong evidence of bestial crimes

The EU’s pointless political posturing on Iran
No dentist would decide to extract a tooth, little by little, over the course of several days. For the good of the patient, it is better the operation is conducted in one smooth, powerful tug. There is no reason to prolong the agony.And agony is what the people of Iran are about to suffer as President Trump reimposes sanctions. These will add to the day-to-day financial and social burdens that already cause them such misery thanks to the incompetent and venal rule of the ayatollahs. In November, the screw will tighten further when the US clampdown is extended to the oil and gas industry.As Trump has made abundantly clear, what is needed is the Tehran regime’s rapid return to the negotiating table to give a solemn and binding agreement to cease its threatening, destabilizing behavior and...
August 09, 2018

The EU’s pointless political posturing on Iran

Can a crocodile change its teeth?
After his disputed victory last week, Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed that he wanted to turn his economically and socially-damaged country around. Well, all the early evidence is that he has already done so. But, unfortunately, the turnaround has been through all 360 degrees. Zimbabwe now looks to be facing exactly the same way and the same disasters as in the days of the fallen leader Robert Mugabe.Mnangagwa, the candidate of Zanu-PF, which under Mugabe has ruled the country since independence from Britain in 1980, called for unity. But in the face of widespread protests by supporters of his defeated rival Nelson Chamisa, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, who had said the election had been rigged and was a “coup against the people’s will”, the brutal...
August 08, 2018

Can a crocodile change its teeth?

The horror of terrorist hostage taking
In some ways the taking of innocent hostages is worse than their immediate murder. When terrorists seize an individual, the implicit threat is that unless their demands are met, that person will be killed. Thus the victim has been sentenced to a living death. And the fear and anguish he or she feels is mirrored by family and friends.And terrorists continue to use this horrific crime because they understand the pressure that distraught citizens can bring to bear on their government. The ransom demand, be it cash, as is typically the case with Somali pirates operating in the Indian Ocean, or the release of captured terrorists, has all too often been met. The UK is one of the few countries that has said publicly that it will not bow to the demands of kidnappers. The British take the view that...
August 07, 2018

The horror of terrorist hostage taking

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