Opinion

Sat, 23 Nov 2024, 08:31 am

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Opinion

Israel’s onslaught of revenge

AS AMAL Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be

A certain French stubbornness

FRANCE’S Emmanuel Macron can, at times, show himself at odds with the grime and gristle of grounded politics. Able to pack in various snatches of philosophical reflection in a speech,

2024: people starve as the rich get richer

EARNING enough to pay the rent or mortgage, cover utility bills and travel costs, buy food and have the occasional coffee is difficult, impossible for many. But it’s not hard

THIS week, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, applied for arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders, as well as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister

France losing grip on another colonial possession

Macron’s decision to send more troops to New Caledonia is a reflection of a serious breakdown of order in the island nation not seen since the 1980s, writes Mick Hall FEARS

Women for peace

WHEN Peta Jones Pellach raves about what she describes as the ‘wonderful event’, you can’t help but feel you missed out on something. On October 4, 2023, well over a

Ringing true for Gaza

AS ISRAELI troops continue their assault in Rafah, increasing the death toll and displacing — yet again — hundreds of thousands of Gazans, there’s much to be learnt from recalling

Wickremasinghe’s commitment and reconciliation

ON NUMEROUS occasions, Sri Lanka’s president Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that he was elected president to get Sri Lanka out of its economic morass and will do his utmost to

Improved international financial architecture needed

Last month’s IMF and World Bank meetings continued the discussions on reforming and right-sizing international financial institutions, but far more ambition is required ahead of UN climate talks, writes Rishikesh Ram

Steps into the 21st century

VLADIMIR Putin and Xi Jinping added another to their count of 40-odd summit meetings when the Russian and Chinese presidents convened in Beijing, later proceeding to Harbin in Northeast China,