On December 5 last year, the Ob River, an 288-metre LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) tanker with a capacity of 84,682 deadweight tonnes chartered by Russian energy giant Gazprom, arrived at the Japanese port of Tobata. The ship …
Gestures of goodwill can be a tricky business, particularly if you’re a dignitary visiting a foreign land with customs you’re not quite used to. Here are five memorable moments in which American luminaries raised eyebrows abroad. …
TIME International Editor Bobby Ghosh talks about witnessing a dangerous misstep at Saddam’s Presidential Palace and how it foreshadowed things to come.
Emerging from the shadows of their secret command outpost in the war-torn city of Aleppo, these members of an all-female fighting unit posed for portraits.
Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the first Jesuit to be elected Pope. If you don’t know what a Jesuit is, take a brief look at Bergoglio’s life, because he has made efforts to personify the order’s virtues: …
Venezuelans mourn the passing of the charismatic, controversial President known as ‘El Comandante’.
Born in poverty, Hugo Chávez rose through the military and survived a failed coup to become one of the most influential figures in Latin America. The socialist leader, a demagogic populist who consolidated power and was in his …
In dismantling and repatriating the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, guidelines for the next war – or humanitarian catastrophe
In a scene from the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Prof. Severus Snape describes …
In one forward operating base, the number of containers outnumbered the U.S. soldiers by about 2,000 — a gauge of what America faces as it dismantles its presence in Afghanistan
What is called a “fighting withdrawal” is one of the most complex military stratagems to pull off. And that’s what American soldiers are in the middle of now
In the early morning hours of Jan. 27, a fire erupted at a nightclub in southern Brazil. Nearly 250 people were killed by the smoke and flames that followed – as another 200 were left injured. It was the deadliest fire of its …
The first in a series of dispatches from a TIME reporter assigned to document the dismantling of the U.S. presence in the war-torn country
In Allahabad, northern India, a megacity of millions is sprouting up at the confluence of the Yamuna and Ganges rivers. For millennia, Hindu devotees have flocked to these holy banks to participate in a ritual cleansing known as …
