Why efforts to secure a deal on banning all nuclear weapons are so important
Apr 10, 2017 13:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Last week negotiations to ban nuclear weapons started in New York. The talks came as a result of United Nations General Assembly resolution adopted in December last year. The resolution takes forward multilateral...
US strike on Syria ends prospect of warmer relations with Russia
Apr 08, 2017 05:41 am UTC| Insights & Views
Ever since Donald Trump arrived in the White House, there has been much talk of a great thaw in relations between the US and Russia. But his decision to carry out airstrikes in Syria in retaliation against Bashar al-Assads...
Trump’s attack on Syria: Four takeaways
Apr 08, 2017 05:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
On April 6, two U.S. Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean Sea fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Shayrat airfield in western Homs province in Syria. The strike purportedly came in retaliation for the Syrian governments...
US airstrike on Syria: What next?
Apr 08, 2017 05:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
Make no mistake. The April 6 U.S. airstrike on Syria following Bashar al-Assads chemical weapon attack is a remarkable shift in President Donald Trumps and Washingtons past policy. As president-elect, Trumps Middle...
Strikes against Syria: Did Trump need permission from Congress?
Apr 08, 2017 05:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Launching 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield in response to a Syrian chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians raises important questions. Does the president have, or should he have, the...
With Syria missile strikes, Trump turns from non-intervention to waging war
Apr 07, 2017 08:51 am UTC| Insights & Views
The United States unilateral missile strikes against a Syrian airforce base are a dramatic escalation of its participation in that countrys civil war. The US government has attacked a Syrian government asset for the first...
Will the US missile strike be the turning point in Syria's shifting war?
Apr 07, 2017 08:48 am UTC| Insights & Views
The US has hit the Syrian airbase used to launch this weeks suspected sarin gas attack against Khan Sheikhun that killed more than 80 civilians. US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cited the...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects