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Small hands big missiles: Trump's dangerous adolescence

What happens when two teenage leaders get access to nuclear weapons?

Marwan Bishara

When people, notably women, say "men are boys with more expensive toys", they mean cars, boats or golf clubs. Not a university, a foundation or a beauty pageant; and certainly, not drones, cruise missiles and Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles. 

But now we've got a man who demonstrated once and again that he's got the "temperament, language skills and emotional age" of a teenager holding the most powerful office in the land and with direct access to the nuclear codes.

Free speech curtailed in Aung San Suu Kyi's Myanmar as prosecutions soar

Dozens of people have been charged or jailed for allegedly defaming the regime that the Nobel laureate leads, raising fears of continued oppression

For decades, the punishment for speaking out against Myanmar’s rulers was simple and guaranteed: a very long stretch behind bars.

The new democratic government led by Aung San Suu Kyi, which took power last April, insisted that era was over.

One has to wonder why Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize  Since her party has taken power it's been nothing but swerving towards a repressive government

1960s Soviet filmstrip shows USSR's victory over the West and predicts FaceTime and self-driving cars

A vision of life in 2017 shows remarkable prescience about today's transport and mobile connectivity

An astonishing vision of life in 2017 has come to light, in which the Soviet Union is thriving and has prevailed over the capitalist West. The filmstrip, produced in 1960, reveals some intriguing views of how transport would look in the centenary year of the October Revolution.

While the Soviet Union and its vision of the future may be gone  It's authoritarian government remains

Anti-Japan sentiment revisited with 'comfort  woman' statue

Tokyo's retaliation against Seoul after civic activists installed a new comfort woman statue outside the Japanese consulate in Busan is stoking anti-Japan sentiment here. Many Koreans called Japan "shameless," Monday, for accusing Korea of breaching the agreement reached between the two countries in December 2015 to settle disputes over Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women during the Japanese occupation.