Samira Selo cradled her 2-year-old on her hip and looked across the low valley toward Syria, a country that until a month ago she called home. Some sheep and goats grazed nearby. Behind her, in the old tiny tent she, her husband
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Morsi’s Next Move: Egypt’s President Got His Constitution, but Can He Fix the Economy?
When Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi last spoke to his nation on Dec. 6, he was angry and defiant. He deplored the deadly clashes between opposing protesters outside the presidential palace while ignoring his own Muslim …
What a Park Presidency Means for South Korea’s Foreign Policy
South Korea is an emerging power. And because it lies in a geopolitical hotspot, with an economy dependent on exports, the new president’s direction of foreign policy will matter.
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India: After New Delhi Gang Rape, Should the Culprits Be Executed?
On Monday morning, fighting for her life at a Delhi hospital, a 23-year-old victim of a brutal gang rape in New Delhi last week was unaware that at the heart of New Delhi in Jantar Mantar, a protest ground, a crowd massed in her …
Why Is Turkey’s Prime Minister at War with a Soap Opera?
A Turkish soap opera based on the life and reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the 16th century Ottoman sultan might at times appear gaudy, predictable, and rife with historical inaccuracies. But, to Turkey’s Prime Minister …
China’s Anti-Corruption Toolkit: No Flowers, Expensive Booze or ‘Empty Talk’
Woe to premium rice-wine distillers, potted-plant purveyors and weavers of red carpets. A slew of new regulations issued in recent days to curb corruption and limit showy displays by Chinese officialdom have claimed some unusual …
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The U.S. government tries to sell advanced spy drones to South Korea, China opens the world’s longest high-speed rail line and Israel reviews restrictions on women’s prayer at Jerusalem’s Western Wall.
Interview with Official of Jabhat al-Nusra, Syria’s Islamist Militia Group
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President Bashar Assad knows his regime can’t win Syria’s civil war — his foreign minister, Farouk al-Sharaa, admitted as much in an interview published last week by a sympathetic newspaper. But nor does he believe he’s about …
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In India, a Rape Sparks Violent Protests and Demands for Justice
An alleged gang rape in New Delhi has prompted calls for change by women’s-rights groups and violent clashes between police and anti-rape protests in the nation’s capital.