Hardline interpretations of Islam are preventing economic progress and threatening Saudi Arabia’s ability to develop a modern economy, the country’s de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman declared. Saudi Arabia’s rulers have had a pact for decades with hardline Islamists who follow a strict form of Islam called Wahabism. But in an interview broadcast […]
Of all the war criminals and mass murderers I have encountered in 40 years of reporting in conflict zones, Ratko Mladic was the most chilling. The United Nations ex-Yugoslavia Tribunal’s final verdict — life imprisonment for genocide — brings back memories that even a hard-bitten war reporter finds hard to erase. ** Dead children’s graves […]
A sign on the desert road south of Baghdad, curiously in English not Arabic, pointed to what it described as an “Engineering Factory”. It was the only hint that there was something unusual to be found just off the beaten track. Until days before, this “Engineering factory” had been nothing less than Saddam Hussein’s project […]
The unmeasurable price of war. The title the BBC gave Paul Martin’s article, which was the script of a broadcast he made in one of his FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT feature pieces from the region of the Middle East and Africa. It’s still relevant in the wake of another conflict in which civilians paid a […]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/ Based on that article, it appears there is no significant difference in death rates across the US racial divides. However, subsequent analysis appears to show a different picture. The truth may be more complex. Watch this space.
Veteran BBC broadcaster Jeremy Paxman has attacked war reporters on television who put their own ego ahead of the story. In an online discussion Paxman said that in war reporting, egoism “switches the focus from whatever’s happening wherever you are to me, me, me”. He added: “That’s the besetting problem with television. It’s full of […]
By Health Day News Fill up that mug: Having one or more cups of caffeinated coffee a day may reduce your risk of heart failure, new research suggests. There was one caveat, however: Decaffeinated coffee doesn’t appear to provide the same protection as caffeine-rich blends. “The association between caffeine and heart failure risk reduction was […]
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Ten years on from Egypt’s Arab Spring – what has become of the Tahrir Square revolutionaries? Protests in Cairo in 2011 sparked the downfall of dictator Hosni Mubarak. But did it really change anything? By Colin Freeman24 January 2021 A woman waves an Egyptian national flag from a balcony overlooking Tahrir Square, Cairo on Feb […]
To get into Tahrir Square the evening that President Mubarak was toppled from power – February 11 2011- I crawled under a tank. Later, smiling soldiers on that same tank allowed jubilant crowds to clamber on board. But within a year, a lot of water had flowed under the Nile’s bridges. And to cininue the […]