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Africa and the death penalty — ‘time to let it go’
By Ivan Simonovic - Nov 14, 2015 - Last updated at Nov 14, 2015 23:28
On June 6, 1995, over a year after electing the late Nelson Mandela as its president, South Africa ended the use of the death penalty, with ...
G-20 summit to seek solutions to multi-dimensional world challenges
By Sedat Önal - Nov 14, 2015 - Last updated at Nov 14, 2015 23:26
Turkey will host the G-20 summit in Antalya on November 15-16, 2015. ...
Why inequality hampers economic growth
By Abdullah Obeidat - Nov 08, 2015 - Last updated at Nov 08, 2015 23:00
The social aspect of economics has always attracted decision makers and economists due to the importance of social advancement, progress and ...
Why is physics beautiful?
By Frank Wilczek - Nov 07, 2015 - Last updated at Nov 07, 2015 22:41
The nineteenth-century physicist Heinrich Hertz once described his feeling that James Clerk Maxwell’s equations, which depict the fundamenta ...
Al Aqsa Mosque compound under the gaze
By Mahmoud Zidan - Nov 01, 2015 - Last updated at Nov 01, 2015 22:28
Recently, US Secretary of State John Kerry interrupted his otherwise busy schedule, which includes too many raging conflicts in the region, ...
Migration agenda for the private sector
By Khalid Koser - Nov 01, 2015 - Last updated at Nov 01, 2015 22:27
As Europe’s refugee crisis continues to evolve, offers of assistance have come from some unexpected places.Interventions by governments, civ ...
An author’s misadventure
By Hussein Hammami - Oct 31, 2015 - Last updated at Oct 31, 2015 22:35
Responding to Israel’s war on Gaza in the summer of last year, a group of British literary figures announced in February that they would sto ...
Weak states, poor countries
By Deaton Angus - Oct 28, 2015 - Last updated at Oct 28, 2015 22:55
In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.Imagine my surprise when, as a 19-yea ...
Recorders of history
By Ica Wahbeh - Oct 26, 2015 - Last updated at Oct 26, 2015 23:30
An embarrassing mistake in The Jordan Times (the third time that same mistake had appeared in the paper that I used to read religiously) is ...
Bridging the transatlantic digital divide
By Viviane Reding - Oct 22, 2015 - Last updated at Oct 22, 2015 22:16
On September 8, after four years of painstaking negotiations, representatives of the United States and the European Union initialled a trans ...

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