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Sunday 22/January/2017 22:45 PM

Adrift in Trump’s new century

The late British historian Eric Hobsbawm famously called the period between Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination in 1914 and the Soviet Union’s...

Sunday 22/January/2017 21:43 PM

Make America great again

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Sunday 22/January/2017 15:56 PM

Aligning the West for an uncertain world

In 2016, the United Kingdom made the momentous decision to leave the European Union, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, and many...

Sunday 22/January/2017 15:35 PM

Hope for global health in 2017

Looking back on 2016, there may not seem to be much to celebrate. In terms of global health alone, the year appeared to be one of unrelenting tragedy....

Sunday 22/January/2017 15:15 PM

On foreign policy Trump means business

Donald Trump hammered home his message of change in his presidential acceptance speech on the steps of Congress, promising to break up the cosy Washington...

Saturday 21/January/2017 17:41 PM

Donald Trump, president of the United States

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Saturday 21/January/2017 15:41 PM

Geoengineering climate change

Even climate activists increasingly recognize that the lofty rhetoric of the global agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, concluded in Paris just...

Saturday 21/January/2017 15:21 PM

Taming the chaebols

The indictment of Lee Jae-yong, the heir apparent at Samsung, is but the latest explosive development in the political scandal that has been rocking South...

Saturday 21/January/2017 14:57 PM

Brexit into Trumpland

British Prime Minister Theresa May is leading the United Kingdom toward a very “hard” Brexit in 2019 – and potentially off a cliff, if the UK leaves...

Saturday 21/January/2017 14:27 PM

Trump’s alternative ethical universe

From the moment Donald Trump entered the US presidential race, the potential for an unprecedented array of ethics violations, stemming from his global...