“China is flouting its international legal obligations by forcibly returning Kachin refugees to an active conflict zone rife with Burmese army abuses.”
Migration
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American ideals versus interests in Ethiopia, Apple and Foxconn told to do more on labor conditions in Chinese factories and François Hollande faces criticism over treatment of the Roma
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The arrest of a minor in Pakistan throws the spotlight back on its infamous blasphemy laws, competition in Sri Lanka among the two giants of Asia and Thailand’s booming cosmetic surgery industry.
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Revenge attack fears spark internal migration in India, Bibi talking tough on Iran and a new front in the war against radical Islam in Africa
“Australia’s new offshore processing law is a giant step backward in the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers”
Despite an Anti-Sarkozy Agenda, Hollande Imitates His Predecessor on Security
Tough reaction to project rioting in Amiens and resumption of controversial Roma deportations find French Socialist President François Hollande adopting security positions leftists once assailed his conservative predecessor …
Treatment of Muslim Rohingya Minority Shows Burma Has a Long Way to Go
The callous handling of sectarian violence in Arakan reminds us that the country’s transition is far from complete
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Egypt’s president makes his move against the military, Germany mulls a referendum on the E.U. and Australia’s expert panel on asylum policy reports.
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In today’s choices: Germany may play peace-broker in Afghanistan, plans for the Hong Kong of the Caribbean and violence in India’s northeast.
Peña Nieto Tells TIME: I Want to Make Mexico an Emerging Power Again
It will be almost five months before Enrique Peña Nieto is sworn in as Mexico’s new President. But will it be enough time for him to figure out what to do with the country’s dire economic and security problems?
The Making of an American: An Iraqi’s Journey to Citizenship
Threatened by extremists for working for TIME in Baghdad, Marwan Sadiq fled his homeland Iraq for the U.S. On July 4, 2012, he became a citizen. This is his story
Tax the Rich? French and British Leaders Spar over Plans to Make Wealthy Pay Up
Criticism by U.K. Prime Minister Cameron of proposals by French President Hollande to hike tax rates on the rich sparked irritation in France; a closer look reveals that the U.K. is hardly the Thatcherite paradise the posh Cameron …
A Nigerian Dies in China—and Racial Tensions Heat Up
The death of a Nigerian man in the southern Chinese megacity of Guangzhou — allegedly when he was in police custody — sparked a protest by Africans living there, raising tensions in a country still uncomfortable with racial difference