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Oman and its five economic partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) must remove obstacles for expatriate workers and allow them to move freely to...

Britain isn’t the only country which held a referendum this month. On June 5, Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected, by 77 per cent to 23 per cent, the...

Thursday night is said to have been momentous for those who campaigned to leave the European Union and turn Britain’s back on the twenty-first century. On...

It is said there are no permanent friends in politics, just interests. The same is true of many bilaterals spawning international geo-politics. US-Pakistan...

Putting aside security implications of allowing foreign investors into crucial sectors, the Government of India has announced one of the biggest reform...

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...

The people of Balochistan constitute the truest example of the democratic function that can be found in any fledgling democracy. As a province with a vast...

Human gene therapy has been one of the most ambitious goals of biotechnology since the advent of molecular techniques for genetic modification in the 1970s....

US President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Hiroshima was no typical diplomatic stop. Not only did it mark the first visit by a sitting US president to...

The old idea of recasting the welfare state by instituting an unconditional universal basic income has lately been capturing imaginations across the...