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Monday 26/March/2018 14:19 PM

India’s war on antimicrobial resistance

Last year, a 30-year-old teacher suffering from a severe bloodstream infection arrived in my emergency room for treatment. The woman had been in and out of...

Monday 26/March/2018 14:16 PM

Lessons from the Iraq war after 15 years

It has been exactly 15 years since the start of one of the most fateful episodes of the early twenty-first century: the Iraq War. After the attacks of...

Monday 26/March/2018 14:13 PM

What Putin won in Russia’s election

At the beginning of his presidency in the early 2000s, Vladimir Putin was a pro-Western island in a sea of anti-Western Russian elites. As I observed at the...

Monday 26/March/2018 14:11 PM

Is Europe ready for a trade war?

US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose import tariffs of 25 per cent on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium is surprising neither for its...

Sunday 25/March/2018 16:39 PM

Students lead huge US anti-gun rallies

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Sunday 25/March/2018 15:15 PM

Russia’s malign shadow

Ahead of Italy’s 1948 election, the CIA funneled millions of dollars - this when a million dollars was a lot of money - into anti-communist parties in...

Saturday 24/March/2018 15:45 PM

Self-driving vehicles test attitudes to risk

Uber has suspended road tests of self-driving vehicles after the first pedestrian was killed by one of its vehicles operating under autonomous computer...