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Sun, July 12, 2020 | 13:20

Hyon O Brien

Every Thursday, I try to get up around 5 a.m. I participate by Zoom in the morning worship of Miami Joonim Church at 6 o'clock. Then I freshen up the agenda I wrote up the previous night for the Rotary Club of Bal Harbour's weekly meeting, also via Zoom. At 8 a.m. I open the meeting as the current president with the Pledge of Allegiance. In the pledge, we remind ourselves tha...

2020-07-10 17:22

Korean War at 70: revisiting India's peacemaking role

Korean War at 70: revisiting India's peacemaking role

This month South Korea will honor Lt. Col. C. Rangarajan, who led the Indian medical mission during the 1950-53 Korean War as the Korean War hero of the month. This gesture on the 70th anniversary of the start of the war by the Korean government not only salutes the contribution of Lt. Col. Ragarajan and his 60th Parachute Field Ambulance Platoon (PFA), a mobile army surgical...

2020-07-10 17:19

With no baseball, look back at Nixon's all-stars

With no baseball, look back at Nixon's all-stars

During a normal Major League Baseball season, by mid-July fans would be anticipating the annual All-Star Game. But in 2020, COVID-19, the great killjoy, has forced the game's cancellation, the first time since 1945 when World War II travel restrictions interfered and no players were selected.

2020-07-10 17:16

Investing in African logistics

Investing in African logistics

As the COVID-19 crisis has escalated, stay-at-home orders have led to a surge in online purchases - of everything from groceries to medicines to household essentials - by consumers in the advanced economies. Africans facing similar movement restrictions will not enjoy the same convenience - or the safety it affords.

2020-07-10 17:15

Donald Kirk

News for North Koreans

The insistence of a pair of brothers on scattering hundreds of thousands of leaflets from balloons fired over North Korea confronts the South with tough questions. Is it worth upsetting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his sister, Kim Yo-jong, knowing the negative effects the leaflets are having on North-South rapprochement? For sure, Kim is not going to agree on denuclear...

2020-07-09 17:09

Park Moo-jong

Beating 'corona blues'

The term “blues” can be understand basically as a music genre that originated in the United States around the 1870s among African-Americans, mostly slaves and their descendants, who sang as they toiled in the cotton and vegetable fields.

2020-07-09 17:07

Strange case of justice Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Strange case of justice Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

I'm a sucker for horror movies, but not the new ones filled with blood, gore and articulate zombies. My tastes trend toward the classics, and my favorite is the original “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” We all know the story - the kindly Dr. Jekyll who drinks a potion which unleashes the sinister part of his being, something we are meant to understand was always there. That's the h...

2020-07-09 17:04

Middle Eastern rivals take fight to Jerusalem

Middle Eastern rivals take fight to Jerusalem

Israel, with the backing of the Trump administration, may have full administrative control of Jerusalem but that has not shielded the city from becoming a fault line in one of the Middle East's major divides that pits Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against Turkey, with Jordan caught between a rock and a hard place.

2020-07-09 17:03

Cool idea whose time has come again

Cool idea whose time has come again

'm getting a whole-house attic fan installed this week - just like the one my father had installed in my childhood home - and I cannot wait to cool my house using his old-time methods. I have nothing against air conditioning, mind you. I run my central unit on summer's hottest days. I can't imagine how unpleasant life was in Southern states before A/C brought relief.

2020-07-09 16:58

British asylum for 3 mil.

British asylum for 3 mil.

“We will grant British National Overseas (BNOs) five years' limited leave to remain (in the United Kingdom), with the right to work or study,” British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told the U.K. parliament on July 1. “After five years, they will be able to apply for settled status. After a further twelve months with settled status, they will be able to apply for citizenship.”

2020-07-08 17:14

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