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RSS Financial Times

  • Keir Starmer to stress Labour’s green credentials at COP28 summit
  • Tesla reveals Cybertruck pricing as it begins deliveries
  • FirstFT: Chinese manufacturing activity contracts in sign of economy losing steam
  • Global stocks record best month in three years on interest rate cut hopes
  • UK to probe Abu Dhabi-backed bid for Telegraph group

RSS Branko Milanovic Personal Blog

  • The three German fears
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  • There is no exit for dictators
                 In an interesting paper he tweeted yesterday, Kaushik Basu discusses, using a mathematical model, an old problem: how rulers once they are in power cannot leave it even if they wish to do so, because their road to power, and in power, is littered with corpses that will all (metaphorically) ask revenge […]
  • On general futility of political discussions with people
                 Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or -God forbid-- change their opinions however slightly. That of […]
  • Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?
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  • The red bourgeoisie
                June 3, 1968 was a beautiful late Spring day in Belgrade. The school year was just about to end, and, for me the best days were about to begin: until the mid-July when many of my friends who had either relatives in the village or second homes on the seaside would go on […]

RSS BBC World News

  • Three Israelis killed by Palestinian gunmen at Jerusalem bus stop
  • Mia Schem: Wounded festival-goer in Hamas hostage video freed
  • Who are the released hostages?
  • Will Tesla's truck recover from its shattering start?
  • Israel recalls ambassador in war spat with Spain PM Pedro Sánchez

RSS Channelnews Asia

  • 30 Christmas gifts for S$10 to S$25 at unexpected stores from Daiso to Don Don Donki
  • 30 Christmas gifts for S$10 to S$25 at unexpected stores from Daiso to Don Don Donki
  • 30 Christmas gifts for S$10 to S$25 at unexpected stores from Daiso to Don Don Donki
  • 30 Christmas gifts for S$10 to S$25 at unexpected stores from Daiso to Don Don Donki
  • Heart of the Matter podcast: Are country clubs becoming irrelevant in land-scarce Singapore?

RSS Singapore Straits Times

  • UN Security Council due to vote on lifting arms embargo on Somalia
  • US threatening to reimpose Venezuelan sanctions if commitments not kept
  • UN Security Council due to vote to close Sudan political mission
  • Ukraine's Zelenskiy calls for fortifications in key frontline areas
  • How Qatar swayed Israel and Hamas to make a truce work
  • Biden plots trip to Angola as promise of Africa trip lingers
  • While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Dec 1
  • French ministers head to Indo-Pacific, Australia in diplomatic push
  • ST Picks: Great statesman, modern Machiavelli - Kissinger’s legacy
  • Israel's president visits UAE, asks for help to free hostages

RSS Business Times

  • From tailored IPPT training to free health screening: How firms go the extra mile for their NSmen
    NCS and Fisk Tech are among this year’s winners of MINDEF's Total Defence Award, recognising employers who play an important role in strengthening the defence of the nation.
  • Daily Debrief: What Happened Today (Nov 30)
    Stories you might have missed
  • Singapore’s billionaires increase wealth by almost a third in 2023: UBS
    BILLIONAIRE wealth in Singapore grew by almost a third over the past year, rising 31.2 per cent to US$135.8 billion in 2023, from US$103.5 billion in 2022.
  • Singapore maintains spot as world’s most expensive city, tied with Zurich: EIU
    SINGAPORE maintained its spot as the most expensive city in the world, tying with Zurich, an annual survey showed on Thursday (Nov 30).
  • Bedok assisted-living HDB flats to be launched in December
    SOME 250 community care apartment units in Bedok will be up for sale in December to help Singaporean seniors age independently.

RSS The Economist

  • Business
  • KAL’s cartoon
  • Politics
  • This week’s covers
    How we saw the world
  • KAL’s cartoon

RSS Malay Mail

  • Mat Sabu: Perikatan’s SG4 fixated on Islamic jurisprudence rather than values, ‘doomed to fail’
  • Malaysia launches its first health digital library on cancer, says deputy health minister
  • Police deny arrest of man at Sapi Nangoh road checkpoint related to kidnapping

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Anti-G8 and Anti-War Graffiti in Geneva 2003

Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003

Bastakiya, Dubai 2012

Workers. Heads bowed down in the heat

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