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Thu, January 24, 2019 | 15:18

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'Deaths of despair': grim decline in life expectancy

The cover of a recent issue of The Economist magazine highlighted a heartening story: “Staying alive: Why the global suicide rate is falling.” Inside, we learn, “Globally the rate has fallen by 38 percent from its peak in 1994. As a result, over 4 million lives have been saved.”

Guest Column | 2018-12-06 17:23

UK's brazen takeover of Geomundo in 1885

I am a sucker for a good historical episode, and this is one. Please allow me to summarize. On April 15, 1885, three British warships (HMS Agamemnon, HMS Pegasus and HMS Firebrand) and two transport ships steamed out of Nagasaki and headed west. They came to a three-island archipelago approximately halfway between the Korean mainland and Jeju Island.

Guest Column | 2018-12-05 17:06

Still, Trump supports Mohammed bin Salman

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (known as MBS) is eager to restore his reformer image after the CIA, and most of the world, has concluded he ordered the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Guest Column | 2018-12-05 15:57

ASEAN can help Myanmar solve Rohingya problem

At the end of the 33rd ASEAN summit in Singapore on Nov. 15, Singapore formally handed over the symbolic gavel of ASEAN chairmanship to Thailand, which it last held in 2009. The one-year rotating term will officially begin on Jan. 1, 2019.

Guest Column | 2018-12-04 17:22

George H.W. Bush was himself a point of light

It's fitting that former President George H.W. Bush, whose diplomacy helped end the short Gulf War and the long Cold War, is being remembered in death for words he uttered in his 1988 nomination speech: “Kinder,” “gentler,” “1,000 points of light.” Bush's graciousness and kindness were on display his entire 94-year life. He himself was a point of light.

Guest Column | 2018-12-04 17:12

A wily negotiator

Since the opening of dialogue between North Korea and the United States, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has proven himself to be a shrewd negotiator in the manner of his father and grandfather in his dealings with Presidents Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Moon Jae-in.

Guest Column | 2018-12-03 17:04

Washington should ban female genital mutilation

Dozens of countries have enacted laws against female genital cutting, a procedure in which parts of young girls' genitalia are surgically altered or removed for nonmedical reasons.

Guest Column | 2018-12-03 17:01

US and China are closest of enemies

There has long been talk that the strategic rivalry emerging between the United States and China in recent years could one day give way to confrontation. That moment has arrived. Welcome to the Cold War 2.0.

Guest Column | 2018-12-02 16:44

Michael Cohen tears down Trump's tower of Russia lies

Thursday delivered a splash of cold water, and several large ice cubes, in the faces of President Donald Trump and his supporters, who've spent months caricaturing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe as a desperate partisan witch hunt straying ever further from the collusion it initially sought to uncover.

Guest Column | 2018-12-02 16:41

Ukraine: no big war

The Russian-Ukrainian naval clash in the Black Sea is not going to end up in a world war. Ukraine would love to be part of NATO, but the existing members won't let it join. Why? Precisely because that might drag them into a war with Russia.

Guest Column | 2018-11-30 17:07

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