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‘Terrorist’ killed at Israeli embassy in Belgrade
Published on 29/06/2024
» BELGRADE - An attacker who fired a crossbow at a police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade was shot and killed on Saturday in what Interior Minister Ivica Dacic called a terrorist attack against Serbia.
Abaya controversy tests French schools' secular limits
AFP, Published on 21/06/2023
» PARIS - A reported increase in Muslim girls wearing the abaya dress at French schools has triggered a debate about their violation of the country's sacrosanct commitment to secularism in education.
Widodo is not that different from Trudeau
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/09/2019
» The news out of Indonesia this week is disturbing. In West Papua, the Indonesian-ruled half of the world's second-biggest island, New Guinea, the native people are definitely restive. Some 1.8 million of them, 70% of West Papua's native population, signed a petition demanding the right to self-determination last year, and now much of the island is in revolt.
Saudis vow nuclear arms race with Iran
AFP, Published on 15/03/2018
» WASHINGTON: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said if Iran develops a nuclear weapon, Riyadh will follow suit -- just days before he arrives in Washington for talks with US President Donald Trump.
Censorship blues
News, Postbag, Published on 17/11/2017
» Re: "Thailand's internet freedom 'in decline'", and "Anti-coup elements in the crosshairs", (BP, Nov 16).
Saudi king ousts nephew, names son as crown prince
Reuters, Published on 22/06/2017
» DUBAI - Saudi Arabia's new interior minister, until now a little-known 33-year-old law graduate, replaces his veteran uncle as security chief at a time when the kingdom is confronting threats posed by Sunni Islamic State fighters and Shia militants in the east.
'Principled Realism' without principles or realism
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/05/2017
» The media mostly missed it (or chose to ignore it as a piece of meaningless rhetoric), but Donald Trump proclaimed a new doctrine in his speech to the assembled leaders of the Muslim world in Saudi Arabia on Sunday. It goes by the name of "Principled Realism", though it didn't offer much by way of either principles or realism. In practice, it mostly boiled down to a declaration of (proxy) war against Iran.
Turbines of change
News, Postbag, Published on 04/02/2017
» Re: "Court upsets wind farm energy plan", (BP, Feb 2).
Iran-Saudi war of words heats up ahead of hajj
AFP, Published on 07/09/2016
» TEHRAN - The bitter war of words between Iran and Saudi Arabia intensified Wednesday ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage from which Iranians have been excluded for the first time in decades.
Is it time for the United States to dump Saudi Arabia?
News, Published on 05/02/2016
» After the recent execution of Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi Arabia, the Middle East once again risks devolving into sectarian chaos. A mob torched the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, prompting Saudi Arabia and a number of its Sunni allies to break diplomatic relations with Iran.