LAHORE, Pakistan — On Thursday, the Taliban appointed Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who founded the movement with Mullah Mohammad Omar in 1993, as the chief negotiator in the peace talks with the United States, being held in Qatar. Mr. Baradar, who was also appointed as deputy to the Taliban chief Mawlawi Haibatullah Akhundzada, is expected […]

ABU DHABI/Dubai (Reuters) – Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank’s chairman and chief executive will fill the top positions within the company to be created after the merger with Union National Bank and Al Hilal Bank, three sources aware of the merger said. ADCB is the largest bank within the three-way tie-up, which could form a bank […]

“In the Balkans the transition is over,” Remzi Lani, an Albanian political analyst, told me some time ago. But unlike in many post-Communist countries, Mr. Lani didn’t mean a transformation from dictatorship to democracy. “We transitioned from repressive to depressive regimes.” He is right. The old Communists and radical ethnic nationalists are largely gone; in […]

As President Trump presses on with the trade war, observers say he hasn’t wrapped his head around China. The miscalculation is expected to have costs. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter (@NYTopinion) and Instagram. Source: Read Full Article

For Americans under the age of 40, the 21st century has resembled one long recession. I realize that may sound like an exaggeration, given that the economy has now been growing for almost a decade. But the truth is that younger Americans have not benefited much. Look at incomes, for starters. People between the ages […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. The U.S. pushes allies to block Huawei, Venezuela faces mounting international pressure and India struggles to keep troublemaking monkeys in line. Here’s the latest: U.S. corrals allies in a 5G arms race with China Over the past year, the Trump administration has embarked […]

Sir – As a regular reader of the Sunday Independent’s sports coverage, I was disappointed by Eamonn Sweeney’s article on Neil Warnock’s recent comments on Brexit (Hold the Back Page, Sport, Sunday Independent, January 20). It was yet another example of the stereotyping of pro-Brexit advocates as xenophobic. There is nothing xenophobic in the quoted […]

When Bono channelled John Maynard Keynes’s “animal spirits” at Davos this week to talk about how capitalism is a wild beast that, if not tamed, can and has chewed up a lot of lives, he could have been talking about technology. “We need to re-imagine it, re-purpose it, remake it, in our own image and […]

Russell Baker, a longtime New York Times columnist, died last week at 93. Mr. Baker’s observations on politics and cheeky insights on the everyday — which he shared in his “Observer” column for more than 35 years — were variously described as “wry and exquisitely observational,” “sardonic and idealistic at the same time” and having […]

The community of Sackville, N.S., is encouraging young entrepreneurs to come together at the Social Market — a shopping experience with a cause. Youth entrepreneurs plied their wares on Saturday, selling everything from homemade chili to arts and crafts, channelling 100 per cent of the profits back into their charity of choice. Organizer Roberta Hibbert says the […]