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Wednesday 21/September/2016 21:54 PM

Is there any hope for Syria

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...

Tuesday 20/September/2016 22:53 PM

The coming confrontation with North Korea

Imagine it is 2020. The director of the CIA requests an urgent meeting with the US president. The reason: North Korea has succeeded in making a nuclear bomb...

Tuesday 20/September/2016 17:46 PM

Globalisation for everyone

Nowadays, globalisation’s opponents seem increasingly to be drowning out its defenders. If they get their way, the post-World War II international order...

Tuesday 20/September/2016 17:36 PM

Getting migration governance right

At last year’s United Nations General Assembly summit, world leaders promised to cooperate on ensuring safe, orderly, regular, and responsible migration....

Monday 19/September/2016 19:25 PM

Watering the Middle East

The United Nations World Water Development Report confirms what many already know: hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and North Africa...

Monday 19/September/2016 19:16 PM

No-brainer sustainable development

The 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals have among their objectives primary-school education for all children, jobs for all adults, and an end...

Monday 19/September/2016 19:01 PM

Trump's foreign policy is a scary black hole

Imagine that the first crisis facing the next president would be a seizure by China of the Scarborough Shoal, a coral atoll off the Philippines in the...