*Update: Hong Kong’s government on Saturday backed down from plans to make “national education” mandatory. The scheme will now be voluntary.
Tens of thousands of people swamped Hong Kong’s government offices on Friday evening …
*Update: Hong Kong’s government on Saturday backed down from plans to make “national education” mandatory. The scheme will now be voluntary.
Tens of thousands of people swamped Hong Kong’s government offices on Friday evening …
Despite tensions in the ruling party over choosing a replacement, the passing of a man who ruled for a generation may produce a more responsive government
American grandstanding about human rights in China has been replaced by more pressing fears over jobs and prosperity
Though you wouldn’t guess it in an election year, the rest of the world increasingly does not need American leadership to guide the way.
There may be a bipartisan consensus on backing hawkish Israeli positions, but Washington has little to offer the Palestinians for sticking to the U.S. script
Cuba is a fitting setting for the upcoming peace talks between the Colombian government and Marxist guerrillas – if only because it’s a cautionary example for both the right and the left in Latin America.
Russia hosts APEC in its remote Far East; arms sales skyrocket in 2012; the rest of the world yawns at the U.S. election
After a failed restoration job made international front pages, conservationists, art critics and tourism officials all have their opinion on what to do with the fresco
In today’s offerings: Live bullfighting returns to Spanish television after a six year absence, Hong Kong’s top official attempts to find more affordable housing in one the world’s most expensive cities, and Quebec’s newly …
In this week’s magazine, TIME reports from the frontlines of Yemen’s war with the al-Qaeda franchise in its midst. It’s a battle the Yemenis are winning.
The fate of the euro will be repeatedly tested in coming weeks, as the European Central Bank, markets, legal experts and politicians all weigh in from opposing sides in the struggle to preserve the tormented common currency
By demanding a U.S. statement of ‘red lines’ in exchange for Israeli restraint, Netanyahu appears to be seeking a retreat from an untenable position
Today’s essential reading: a fishing dispute threatens bilateral relations between India and Sri Lanka, the South Korean government has been ordered to pay $2 million to a man wrongly imprisoned as a North Korean spy for 15 …