Futures Movers: Oil prices rise, drawing support from Kuwait worker strike
Oil steadies in Asian trading. For this week, traders will be watching the U.S. crude inventories and production data for cues on global supply.
Oil steadies in Asian trading. For this week, traders will be watching the U.S. crude inventories and production data for cues on global supply.
Voormalig Guns N'Roses-frontman Axl Rose leent voortaan zijn stem aan AC/DC. Of de fans van de Australische hardrockformatie dit pikken, is nog de vraag. Wisselen van leadzanger pakt namelijk even vaak succesvol als dramatisch uit.
Police believe the green skin may actually not be his real skin colour.
When James McBride, a National Book Award winner for his fiction, decided to write an entire book about James Brown, he wanted to push beyond the hype and racism he says haunts Brown's legacy.
Rodney Tavarez was recalled as a mischievous, anime-loving teen who helped his friends.
A. Trevor Thrall
Politics, Middle East
Washington is falling into the same bad habits.
The United States and its European allies are ramping up plans to intervene in Libya again, this time to confront the growing Islamic State presence in the country. The eagerness to jump back into Libya follows a five-stage pattern that has become all too familiar since the end of the Cold War. This pattern reflects the fundamental inability of the American political system to accept the world as it actually is... Читать дальше...
Carlo Jose Vicente Caro
Security, Middle East
From Syria to Colombia, no bedfellow is too strange.
A problem in the literature of the relationships between nonstate armed groups is that cooperation and competition among them are usually treated as distinct phenomena that follow different logics. Studies usually offer separate explanations of why cooperation or competition occur in particular cases, and there are hardly any theoretical frameworks (apart from BJ Phillips’)... Читать дальше...
Joel Wuthnow
Security, Asia
The Brahmaputra is the next test for Beijing and New Delhi.
On April 18–19, the Chinese and Indian defense ministers will meet in Beijing to discuss border issues. At the top of the agenda will be how to improve stability along the border, where both countries have overlapping sovereignty claims. Chinese military incursions across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) into Indian-controlled territory, most recently in March, have been a particular source of tension between Beijing and New Delhi.
Matt Purple
Security, Middle East
The stage is set for a reawakening.
In Islamic State, the world has encountered the most brutal jihad syndicate it’s ever faced. But brutality has its limits.
The mass graves, the crucifixions, the suffocating tyranny have earned ISIS an unprecedented array of enemies—from the United States, to Sunni powers like Jordan, to Shiite militias, to the Kurds—who together have forced it off 40 percent of its territory in Iraq and 20 percent in Syria. Читать дальше...
Parag Khanna
Global Governance, Asia
Today's superpowers thrive on economic supply chains, not military might.
It wasn’t long after the collapse of the Soviet Union that American defense strategists had identified the new World War III scenario: Taiwan. Nearly a quarter century later, Taiwan remains on the tip of the geopolitical tongue. The election of the nationalist DPP in January has rattled cross-Strait relations. Beijing called on Taipei to abandon any “hallucinations” of independence. Читать дальше...
North America’s biggest salamander is a reclusive crayfish-eater with a compressed body and some rather unflattering nicknames.
Letters to the Editor
There are many myths about how to treat a minor burn. Do I pop the blister? Do I use hot or cold water on it? Do I cover with bandages?
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