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Saturday 24/December/2016 15:30 PM

Aleppo’s sobering lessons

The fall of Aleppo to forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad is neither the end of the beginning nor the beginning of the end of Syria’s...

Saturday 24/December/2016 14:55 PM

Demonetisation on five continents

Around the world, several countries are currently undergoing “demonetisation,” or currency reforms in which the government removes banknotes of a...

Saturday 24/December/2016 14:29 PM

The destructive power of inflation

When I was in Argentina last week, I was reminded of the devastating power of high inflation. Argentina’s annual inflation rate is now about 20 per cent,...

Saturday 24/December/2016 14:12 PM

Investing in a closed-border world

Investors, like astronomers or anthropologists, rely on intellectual models to make sense of a complicated universe, guide immediate choices, and set...

Wednesday 21/December/2016 22:51 PM

Germany lockdown after lorry attack

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 21/December/2016 22:35 PM

Theresa May’s Brexit problem

British Prime Minister Theresa May reportedly “needed some time to compose herself” in a recent meeting with her presumed ally Angela Merkel. The German...

Wednesday 21/December/2016 22:35 PM

Does the French Socialist primary matter?

Seven candidates are standing in the 2017 French Socialist Party presidential primary, which includes the Socialist Party and a number of smaller...

Wednesday 21/December/2016 15:43 PM

How China beats the US at clean-air progress

As Beijing and more than 20 other cities in northern China have been plunged into another winter air-pollution crisis, with choking, toxic air and many...