Editorial - Page 142

The term 'compulsory' or 'government-mandated' have inspired knee-jerk reactions in democracies across the world. Months into the pandemic and with...

Last year, the world was united in criticising Brazil and its new Government on Amazon fires that had broken out. The fires were an annual affair but...

After a record seven years and eight months, Japan's longest-running Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, this week announced that he would be stepping down...

This week marked the third year anniversary of the Rohingya mass exodus to Bangladesh. For the nearly one million refugees inhabiting sprawling...

In the present times, good news is a rarity. Indeed, the only time one sees good news these days may well be when it is being used to couch...

Among the many mysteries and unknown variables that surround SARS-CoV-2 is the role of antibodies and immunity in preventing infection and, in this...

For months now the news cycle has been a grim reminder that our best hopes and technological advances cannot keep us safe from COVID-19. The virus has...

In early April, an unprecedented 1.5 billion children worldwide were staying home as schools and other educational institutions shut down. That was a...

At the beginning of this year, the scale of COVID-19, its effects, its very existence were a matter of debate with very little in the way of concrete...

The fact that the US and Iran have historically had difficult relations since the fall of the Shah of Iran is a well-known fact. This tension boiled...

In the world of today, the anti-vax movement has been a controversial display of what a misplaced sense of rights and conspiracy theories can create....

By now, it is a fairly common pattern for long-held political and social dissatisfaction to boil over in certain nations in the face of the additional...