Raúl Castro’s decision this week to let Cubans travel freely outside their communist island is a reminder of the jaded cold-war policies Washington and Havana adopted after the 1962 U.S.-Soviet standoff
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China Celebrates Author Mo Yan’s Nobel
The writer is not the first Chinese person to win a Nobel — think dissident Liu Xiaobo and the Peace Prize — but, with their sleight of hand, elated Beijing authorities are celebrating him as the first Chinese citizen to win …
China Announces Plans for Party Congress and Prosecution of Bo Xilai
A long season of unexpected events is capped off with two clearly synchronized announcements — and the catastrophic fall of one of the Chinese Communist Party’s brightest stars is dramatically assured
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On deck for Friday: Israel warns Iran may have a nuclear bomb by spring, most-wanted Mexican drug lord behind bars, Syrian refugees are predicted to number 700,000 by the end of the year
Touchdown: American Football League Launches in India
A new venture, the Elite Football League of India, or EFLI, is betting that South Asians will fall for the American game. Here are some photographs of the players in action
The Moribund Economy Brings Palestinians into the Streets
Frustration leads to public protests as the fund-bereft government stops issuing paychecks that keep the Palestinian territories working
How Sending Fewer U.S. Troops to Israeli Joint Exercise Further Strains Relations
TIME’s report on the substantial scaling back of U.S. participation in next month’s joint military exercise with Israel created some waves. The story, posted on Friday, quoted military sources in both countries describing a …
Exclusive: U.S. Scales Back Military Exercise with Israel, Affecting Potential Iran Strike
A smaller U.S. contingent may make it more difficult for the Israeli government to launch a pre-emptive strike on Tehran’s nuclear program
China’s Bridge Collapse: Infrastructure Boom Raises Safety Questions
On Sunday, 47 people died in two traffic accidents, highlighting the danger of China’s overcrowded and poorly maintained roads
Defending Assange, Ecuador’s President Kindles a Controversy over Defining Rape
The decision to help keep Assange out of Sweden shines light on Latin America’s problematic attitude toward rape
China’s Most Wanted: How the Cops Got a Murderous Serial Bank Robber
Before Zhou Kehua became one of China‘s most wanted fugitives, he enjoyed reading and collecting detective novels. When he was short of cash as a teenager, he would sometimes sit on the roadside and rent his novels out, an …
In China, Brief Murder Trial of Ex-Official’s Wife Offers Few Answers
At the trial of Gu Kailai, the world was given but a brief glimpse of the players in the Bo Xilai scandal.
Afghanistan Sacks Its Security Chiefs: How Will That Affect U.S. Forces?
The parliamentary denoucement of the ministers of defense and the interior may be a sign of Afghan democracy at work but it makes the security situation much more volatile for U.S. forces preparing to withdraw
