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Saturday 19/August/2017 15:45 PM

Media capture in the Digital Age

The last couple of years have not been good for freedom of expression. The governments of Poland, Hungary, and Turkey have become increasingly authoritarian...

Saturday 19/August/2017 15:26 PM

The wrong way to prevent nuclear war

A vast majority of countries want to eliminate the existential threat of nuclear catastrophe, and rightly so. But achieving a world free of nuclear weapons...

Saturday 19/August/2017 14:35 PM

A trip through Putin country

Russia’s Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) railway “can be hardly named as a popular tourist attraction,” says one tourist website of the some 2,000-mile...

Wednesday 16/August/2017 21:58 PM

Yawning really is contagious, says study

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...

Wednesday 16/August/2017 14:29 PM

Is Trump killing the dollar?

For nearly a century, the U.S. dollar has been viewed as the financial world’s ultimate safe haven. No other currency has promised the same degree of...

Wednesday 16/August/2017 14:07 PM

A dangerous game of chicken

So far, the war between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over the latter’s nuclear programme has been fought only in words....

Wednesday 16/August/2017 13:45 PM

We weep for you, Venezuela

Until recently, Venezuela – the birthplace of the “Liberator” Simón Bolívar – was a free and rather wealthy country, boasting the world’s...

Tuesday 15/August/2017 21:18 PM

Yoga can help to treat depression

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...