China’s People’s Daily removes Onion-insipred report on ‘Sexiest’ Kim Jong Un, adding to speculation that its editors didn’t get the American publication’s satire
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India launches the world’s largest cash-to-the-poor program in January, the once-wealthy Greek part of Cyprus is ailing, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn may be tried for allegedly “pimping”
Asia’s Passport Wars: Chinese Map Triggers Diplomatic Firestorm
Grumbling over territory and marine boundaries, China and India and Vietnam go titting and tatting with pieces of paper.
Why Charcoal May Endanger Somalia’s Best Hope for Peace
On a Monday afternoon in October, in a warehouse in the southern Somali port of Kismayo, I attended a meeting on the future of Somalia. On one side: 20 Somali traders sitting on grass mats and wearing sandals, sarong-like wraps, …
British Foster Parents Lose Children Because of Their Politics
Two Britons affiliated with the anti-immigrant U.K. Independence Party have been stripped off the care of three children after their political allegiances were revealed.
Egypt’s Morsi: Has He Started Something He Can’t Finish?
The standoff is not only in Cairo but in cities and towns across the country. And the secularists are adamant that they will not talk unless he backs down completely
Can Obama and Peña Nieto Clear the Marijuana Smoke?
After speaking with TIME, Mexico’s President-elect, Enrique Peña Nieto, visits the White House Tuesday amid new Hispanic clout but new uncertainties about issues like the drug war
Send in Sarkozy: Will Former French President Rescue His Imploding Party?
After a week of an increasingly bitter leadership fight, France’s main conservative party appeals to former President Nicolas Sarkozy to negotiate peace–or fill the void his departure from politics created in the first place.
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Euro zone finance ministers and the IMF reach a deal on a bailout for Greece, shadow banking in China raises concerns about massive loan defaults, and the remains of Yasir Arafat are exhumed as part of investigation into his death
Communist Party Officials Gone Wild: Sex-Tape Scandal Rocks China
Corruption scandals in China have long been packaged with sexual indiscretion. For almost every fallen official there are tales of paramours, sometimes too numerous to seem plausible. Liu Zhijun, the former Railway Minister who …
Egypt: Thousands Protest President Morsi’s Decree
Is it more of the same in Egypt? Thousands of Egyptian protesters gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in late November, kicking off several days of protests against a new constitutional decree by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, …
Libya’s New Crisis: A Wave of Assassinations Targeting Its Top Cops
When Muhammad bin Halim stepped out of his front door in Benghazi one September morning, he waved at his neighbor before walking toward his candy-apple-red Hyundai. When the head of the financial-crimes unit in the Libyan …
Politics and the Defense Minister: Why Ehud Barak Resigned
Israel clearly met its military goals in the Gaza conflict but Hamas seems to have emerged stronger politically. Israel’s Defense Minister, however, has not.