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Saturday 17/December/2016 15:33 PM

Skilling up Latin America

In the last two decades, Latin America has achieved remarkable social and economic progress. The middle class has grown to historic levels; poverty has been...

Saturday 17/December/2016 14:20 PM

Preventing NATO-Russian escalation

After expressing skepticism of the NATO alliance during his campaign, US President-elect Donald Trump is now beginning to craft a foreign policy that could...

Saturday 17/December/2016 14:16 PM

The promise of ethical machines

The prospect of artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a source of knotty ethical questions. But the focus has often been on how we, the creators, can...

Saturday 17/December/2016 14:12 PM

The promise of digital finance

An economic development revolution lies literally in the palm of a single hand. As mobile phones and digital technologies rapidly spread around the world,...

Wednesday 14/December/2016 17:25 PM

Japanese foreign policy in the Trump era

December will be a month of reconciliation for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as he meets with leaders from two countries that fought Japan in World...

Wednesday 14/December/2016 17:17 PM

Confronting the next global health challenge

Thanks to unprecedented international cooperation, the world is making impressive progress in the fight against malaria. According to the World Health...

Tuesday 13/December/2016 21:14 PM

In pictures: Exotic cars in Oman

Muscat: A car exhibition has become part of the newly revamped Al Mazaar Edutainment Centre and is free for public viewing for a whole year. With some...

Tuesday 13/December/2016 16:56 PM

Toward a US Rust Belt powerhouse

A few days ago, US President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter – his medium of choice – to declare that he did not need China’s permission to contact...