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Remedying the ills of public health system
His Majesty King Abdullah has urged the need to enhance the health sector’s competitiveness and establish an institutional oversight mechanism to ensure professionalism.The King’s intervention comes after the shocking news of the death of two girls due to medi ...
Turkey, Ethiopia and Israel and the Middle East's water crisis
By James J. Zogby - Sep 27, 2021 - Last updated at Sep 27, 2021 21:27
A recent report published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) highlights the growing threat pos ...
Europe's latest humiliation
By Yanis Varoufakis - Sep 27, 2021 - Last updated at Sep 27, 2021 21:27
ATHENS — A “brutal lesson in geopolitics”, is how the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel described the announcement of AUKUS, the new securit ...
The developing world's hidden inflation risks
By Project Syndicate - Sep 27, 2021 - Last updated at Sep 27, 2021 21:25
By Rabah Arezki and Jean-Pierre LandauABIDJAN/PARIS — As the global economy begins to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, managing inflation ri ...
America's losing China strategy
By Anne O. Krueger - Sep 27, 2021 - Last updated at Sep 27, 2021 21:25
WASHINGTON, DC — Despite the cantankerous, polarised atmosphere in Washington, DC, there seems to be bipartisan agreement on one thing at le ...
The global North’s great test
By Gordon Brown - Sep 27, 2021 - Last updated at Sep 27, 2021 21:25
EDINBURGH — With low-income countries in Africa and elsewhere still imploring rich countries to stop stockpiling millions of unused COVID-19 ...
Int’l recognition of the Taliban and problems of Afghanistan?
By Amer Al Sabaileh - Sep 26, 2021 - Last updated at Sep 26, 2021 23:42
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani has called on world leaders to remain engaged with the Taliban in Afghanistan, as he underlined ...
The food revolution is up to us
By Christiana Figueres - Sep 26, 2021 - Last updated at Sep 26, 2021 23:41
BRUSSELS — This year, the United Nations is convening a special gathering to “raise awareness and elevate public discussion” about how food- ...
Whither state-building?
By Carl Bildt - Sep 26, 2021 - Last updated at Sep 26, 2021 23:41
STOCKHOLM — Suddenly, “nation-building” has become a dirty word, particularly in the United States. ...
The specious special relationship
By Ian Buruma - Sep 25, 2021 - Last updated at Sep 25, 2021 22:15
NEW YORK — Two days before the Normandy landings in June 1944, Charles de Gaulle demanded the right to govern France after it was liberated ...

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