Delhi hotel fire kills 17
At least 17 people died on Tuesday as a fire tore through a budget hotel in Delhi before dawn, in the latest disaster to raise concerns over fire safety in India.
Psychoanalysing Brexit
AS A psychoanalytic psychotherapist who often works with couples, I regularly witness intransigent and extreme states of mind. The way the Brexit debate is being conducted seems to mimic these conflicted couples. So, I am now wondering if psychoanalysis and its application to understanding conflicted relationships might enhance our understanding of our current divisions and, perhaps,
US, Russia, blackwater mercenaries plot different futures
TWO parallel peace processes on Afghanistan are under way. In Doha, Zalmay Khalilzad, US special representative for Afghanistan has held extensive round of talks with Taliban leaders,
The battle is on between Trump and his Democratic foes
A clarifying week in Washington showed how ugly the war of oversight between President Donald Trump and House Democrats will become and dug new battle lines in the most intense exchanges yet of the 2020 campaign.
US-backed Kurdish fighters begin offensive into last Syrian territory held by ISIS
At about 6 p.m. Saturday, as darkness crept over eastern Syria, Kurdish forces backed by US-led coalition aircraft and using artillery and heavy machine guns began an assault of the last ISIS enclave in the country.
Nude protest, black flags greet Modi in Assam
A second day of protests on Saturday tainted prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to northeast India where proposals to change a nationality law have sparked outrage.
Donald Trump's long and dramatic history with Jeff Bezos
On Thursday, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took the extraordinary step of posting a personal essay alleging that the National Enquirer offered to bury embarrassing personal photos of him -- stemming from an extramarital affair -- if an investigator working for Bezos would stop referring
Death of girl, 10, shines spotlight on child abuse in Japan
The death of a 10-year-old girl, allegedly at the hands of her abusive father after authorities failed to respond to pleas for help, has prompted soul searching in Japan as the country comes to terms with a record number of child abuse cases.
‘Lebanon takes its time, and so it should!’
SO THE agony lingers on in Lebanon. Yet again, it is taking months to form a government acceptable to everybody, or which the government can sell to everybody.
Chinese student sentenced to a year in prison for taking photos of naval base
A 20-year-old Chinese student was sentenced to a year in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to illegally taking pictures at a key US defense intelligence facility in Florida.
