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The news flashed across dozens of wall-mounted screens as I stepped off the jet bridge into the airport terminal: US commandos had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The tenth anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001, was only a few months aw...

“The pen is mightier than the sword” is a word picture as a metaphor created by an English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, which characterises how powerful and superior effective words, information and even education can be in resolving conflict...

“We must guard against the unwarranted influence of the military-industrial complex ...the potential for disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.” These prophetic words by former United States president Dwight Eisenhower reson...

Much of the world in the period of a week experienced traumatic events that left even those with a keen knowledge of international events astonished — with far more questions floating about than answers, especially when Afghanistan after 20 years saw...

As the American military pulled out of Afghanistan, Kabul fell with stunning speed to determined fighters with medieval desires about everything but the accoutrements of war. Taleban fighters with their long beards and long guns drove through the ci...

I applaud Andrew Cuomo for resigning as Governor of NewYork. The governance and the work of the state needed to be the highest priority, and his resignation was the better thing to do. With regard to the allegations of sexual harassment, as a govern...

There are some right here in Bermuda who feel we should focus only on our problems, which are wide-ranging, instead of studying developments in other countries. Those with that view are entitled to their opinions and should be respected for it. The ...

The day the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee was lifted from its pedestal in Charlottesville and driven away, Zyahna Bryant stood near by, wearing pearls. The adult adornment was telling. It showed she had grown up while waiting for that m...

On Saturday, Charlottesville removed two equestrian statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from the city’s public squares. That removal will not “erase history”, as the statues’ defenders have repeatedly charged. It instead allows us a cleare...

Bermuda is among 130 jurisdictions to agree to the outline of a two-pillar plan to overhaul the global tax system. But the island has made known its concerns over the timeline for the project and about “technical and practical” aspects of the plans, ...

A Bermudian who joined the United States Marine Corps has stood down from active service after a stellar career of more than 21 years. But Dathan Byrd, who retired with a doctorate in education and as a senior Non-Commissioned Officer with the rank o...

President Joe Biden might have persuaded some of the world's largest economies to hike taxes on corporations, but the US Congress could be a far tougher sell. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday that leaders of the Group of Seven — ...