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The Future of the IPhone Is Boring

by Leonid Bershidsky | Sep 14, 2017 | Opinion

There are objective reasons why some of Apple’s new smartphones, to be unveiled on Tuesday, will sell for more than $1,000. The iPhones, including the top-of-the line X model — the 10th anniversary edition — will have some cutting-edge components,...

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Members of Saudi security forces take part in a military parade. (SPA)

Intelligence Cell in Saudi Arabia

by Salman Al-dossary | Sep 13, 2017 | Opinion

The year 2010 was a turning point in Saudi Arabia. That year saw the spark of the so-called “Arab Spring”, the riots in Awamiya, which later turned into terrorist acts before they too faded and came to end, and Saudis began using the most popular social...

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Another Way Climate Change Might Make Hurricanes Worse

by Faye Flam | Sep 12, 2017 | Opinion

In a recent talk about his new book, “Scale,” physicist Geoffrey West described climate change as a form of entropy –- disorder that’s created as the price of all the order and creative energy pent up in cities. In this view, climate change is not, as some argue, just...

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A general view shows the Citadel of Erbil in Erbil, Iraq April 23, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

Kurdish Independence… Fears and Premonitions

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Sep 12, 2017 | Opinion

I am almost certain that most of Arabs outside of Iraq sympathize with Kurdistan’s desire for independence. President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani reiterated that during his campaign and interviews expressing Iraqi-Kurdish point of view and its...

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Why Europe’s Central Bank Shouldn’t Worry About the Euro

by Ferdinando Giugliano | Sep 11, 2017 | Opinion

The European Central Bank has spent much of this decade convincing markets that the euro is irreversible. It is therefore mildly ironic that policy makers in Frankfurt may be in trouble because of the sudden return of confidence in the single currency. Investors...

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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson departs after a closed classified briefing for members of the Senate on North Korea and Afghanistan on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, September 6, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

Tillerson Is Working with China and Russia – Very, Very Quietly

by David Ignatius | Sep 11, 2017 | Opinion

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has often been the silent man in the Trump foreign policy team. But out of the spotlight, he appears to be crafting a broad strategy aimed at working with China to resolve the North Korea crisis and with Russia to stabilize Syria and...