Clarence Page/Chicago Tribune This has been a summer of discontent in stand-up comedy circles, despite the abundance of laughable material that President Donald Trump’s White House continues to provide. You could hear that discontent in June in Jon Stewart’s onstage interview at San Francisco’s annual Clusterfest. After amusing the crowd with talk of the “yearning…
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett/ The Guardian, UK Challenging an entitled man can put you at risk. What happened to Marie Laguerre is what frightens us most Many women have been in a situation where a man has approached them, only for it to turn uncomfortable when they reject his advances. No doubt I will be accused…
Shuja-Ul-Haq/Daily O, India As the demand grows to evict illegal immigrants in India, the persecuted community from Myanmar shivers in their refugee settlements. Imagine being driven out of home to a place thousands of miles away from their own country. Imagine the pictures of the murders of their near and dear ones replaying in their…
Adnan Rasool/WION News Pakistan’s July 25 election, which brought the former cricket player Imran Khan into power as prime minister, was a landmark event. It marked the second consecutive peaceful handover of power from one democratically elected government to another in a country where coups are commonplace. Despite allegations that the Pakistani armed forces rigged…
Cornelia Meyer/Arab News In 2013 he announced his “One Belt One Road” (OBOR) project. It is designed to revive the old trading routes of the silk road. The belt is the sea route emanating in China and weaving its way via southeast Asia, the Horn of Africa and the Suez Canal to Europe. The Road…
Pauline Bock/Gulf News The French president has dared those who have criticised his handling of the affair to ‘come get him’. They just might It was just two weeks ago that French President Emmanuel Macron was on top of the world. At the World Cup final in Russia, he was photographed raising a victorious fist…
Marwan Kabalan/Al Jazeera Russia wants to use the gains it made in Syria as a bargaining chip with the US on Ukraine and the economic sanctions. We may never know what was really discussed in the one-on-one meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki summit. Yet, it is becoming…
M Humayun Kabir: Hundreds of students from various educational institutes took to the streets in the capital for the third consecutive day protesting death of two college students being run over by a bus on Sunday. The students blocked several key points for hours and vandalised and torched buses at some points, reports The Daily…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age: Now that the month of August is here again, it is fitting and proper that we assess the month in terms of history. August comes with memories that give our conscience a jog, our sensibilities a huge shake. In Bangladesh, in India, in Pakistan, indeed beyond South Asia,…