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What a Gallic grip can achieve
It is surprising what a bone-crushing white-knuckle handshake can achieve. When, at their first meeting, President Donald Trump inflicted it on his French opposite number Emmanuel Macron, the Frenchman was ready for him and gave as good as he got, so that Trump’s right hand turned white and he appeared glad to escape from the Gallic grip.That subtle but widely-noted humiliation might well have meant that Trump would take against the feisty little French president. Instead, however, the president so warmed to Macron he decided to invite him to Washington for the first state visit of his incumbency. This doubtless annoyed British premier Theresa May and those politicians and officials in London who regularly boast of the “special relationship” the UK is supposed to enjoy with...
April 27, 2018

What a Gallic grip can achieve

Ireland weeps as Apple starts to pay it $13 billion
Small countries with constrained economies long ago discovered interesting ways of making a living. There was, for instance, the issue of ever more attractive postage stamps, some issued in sufficiently small numbers as to make them highly collectable by philatelists around the world. Small nations have also set themselves up as registries for international shipping and more famously as offshore financial centers.Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Andorra and San Marino are small European states that have also in various ways attracted the super-rich either to live, as in Monaco or to process their investments, as in Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. When the Eurobond market began in the 1970s, it was said that Belgian dentists used to drive regularly across the border to Luxembourg where...
April 26, 2018

Ireland weeps as Apple starts to pay it $13 billion

The rising Erdogan-Trump confrontation
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a powerful, even at times capricious, leader on a par with the US and Russian presidents, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. All three are risk-takers, which means when they come up against each other, the outcome is very far from predictable.For better or worse, Erdogan has transformed Turkey into a self-confident and assertive power at the key land and maritime crossroads between Asia and Europe. He has very consciously fostered the country’s Ottoman past, in which strong sultans created a major empire whose frontiers once reached even to the gates of Vienna.For years, successive occupants of the Oval Office in Washington have taken Turkish membership of NATO almost for granted. US military bases and listening posts monitored the old Soviet...
April 25, 2018

The rising Erdogan-Trump confrontation

Karadic’s pathetic protest
The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadic is appealing his conviction and 40 year sentence for genocide and war crimes. He is claiming that his trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague was political. His conviction in March 2016 was therefore wrong.The ICTY was wound up last year following the conviction of Karadic’s military henchman Ratko Mladic, who was also jailed for 40 years. Karadic’s appeal is being heard by the UN’s Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), also in The Hague.Karadic was found guilty on ten of 11 counts of genocide and war crimes, in particular of planning the murder of almost 8,000 Muslim males, men and boys in Srebrenica in July 1995. This slaughter, the worst in Europe since the Second...
April 24, 2018

Karadic’s pathetic protest

A new opportunity in Libya?
US President George W. Bush and his neocon advisers knew what would become of Iraq once the US invaded that country and toppled Saddam Hussein. His successor Barack Obama was not under the influence of neocons and came to power on an anti-war platform. But what Obama, a Nobel Peace laureate, did to Libya is no different from what Bush did to Iraq.If destroying Saddam’s non-existing weapons of mass destruction was the stated aim of the Iraqi invasion, the US and its allies intervened in Libya to prevent long-time dictator Muammar Qaddafi from “slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent civilians” in Benghazi, the country’s second largest city.Utter chaos has been the outcome in both cases. Libya, like Iraq, has known neither peace nor stability after a 2011 uprising backed by a...
April 23, 2018

A new opportunity in Libya?

Nowhere to breathe
You see it, smell it, taste and feel it. It is called pollution and more than 95 percent of the world’s population is currently breathing unhealthy air.According to the annual State of Global Air Report, air pollution is the fourth highest cause of death among all health risks globally. Only high blood pressure, diet and smoking are more dangerous. The report says exposure to air pollution leads to strokes, heart attacks, lung cancer and chronic lung disease, causing many premature deaths.According to the report, China and India were found to be jointly responsible for over 50 percent of global deaths attributable to pollution.There is also indoor pollution. The report took into account those exposed to the burning of solid fuels in their homes, typically used for cooking or heating...
April 22, 2018

Nowhere to breathe

Nightmare in the sky
If people sometimes wonder how they might die, they rarely imagine that they could be sucked out of an airplane, as that scenario seems like something from a horror movie.But what happens on the silver screen made it into real life after an engine of a Southwest Airlines plane in Philadelphia broke up in flight over 32,000 feet in the air. The debris shattered a window and the rapid decompression nearly sucked out a passenger. Other passengers pulled the victim back in but the 43-year-old bank executive and mother of two died from her injuries after being struck by shrapnel from the shredded engine.An initial investigation found evidence of metal fatigue where a fan blade had broken off. Investigators point to a hidden interior crack on the fan blade as the culprit. The engine in question,...
April 21, 2018

Nightmare in the sky

The Trump-Kim nuclear talks
It is shameful that many in the US liberal establishment are genuinely hoping that President Donald Trump will fall flat on his face when he actually has face-to-face talks with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. They would rejoice at the humiliation of their president, even though if Trump can pull off this audacious piece of summitry and persuade Kim to ditch his nuclear arsenal, the United States and the rest of the world would be considerably safer.The two men are likely to meet before June at an as-yet-undecided location. CIA director Mike Pompeo’s recent visit to North Korea has clearly set up the encounter. Now it is for officials on both sides to work out the likely terms of agreement over which Trump and Kim will tussle. The president is keeping up the pressure on Pyongyang by...
April 20, 2018

The Trump-Kim nuclear talks

Theresa May
Theresa May’s blunder
The law of unintended consequences has hit home with a vengeance in the UK. The political victim is Prime Minister Theresa May but the real victims are up to half a million people living in Great Britain who came to the country before 1971 from the British Commonwealth, the independent states that emerged from much of the old British Empire.These people fell foul of a get-tough policy on immigration May introduced in 2012 when she ran Home Affairs. It required people seeking work, property, benefits and healthcare in the UK to have documentation proving their right to be in the country. But civil servants who advised May on her legislation failed to realize that a policy aimed at scooping up those with no entitlement to be in the UK would also hit whole families who had been invited to...
April 19, 2018

Theresa May’s blunder

Beware World Cup ticket touts
For football fans who travel to Russia for the World Cup starting this June, heartache may not just come because their teams have lost; they may not have managed to get in to see the match because their tickets are invalid.FIFA, the sport’s world governing body, is currently issuing tickets and insists it is the only authorized seller. Considerable measures have been taken to stop fraud. Each ticket has a hologram as well as a barcode and is personalized. Moreover, everyone holding a ticket must have a FAN ID issued by the Russian authorities. It is also a requirement in Russia that visitors must carry their passports.This will pose a challenge for fraudsters outside Russia since, while they may be able to duplicate the FIFA ticket, they are likely to have difficulty copying the Russian...
April 18, 2018

Beware World Cup ticket touts

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