Despite Vice President Xi Jinping’s cancellation, Clinton met with President Hu Jintao and other top Chinese leaders in Beijing on Tuesday and Wednesday
As Egypt’s Islamists Cement Their Rule, Can Secularists Reclaim the Revolution?
The secularists and liberals who helped oust the Mubarak dictatorship have been marginalized by the Muslim Brotherhood. Can Egypt’s secularists win back power?
How a Ferrari Crash May Have Unsettled China’s Leadership Transition
There is still much that is unknown about the March car crash, but it seems to have caused some serious political drama
The Making of a Syrian Rebel: The Saga of Abboud Barri
Abboud Barri’s callousness is more pronounced than most, but his story reflects the universal struggle to preserve humanity in the face of war
Unfriendly Fire: Can the U.S. and NATO Prevent ‘Green on Blue’ Attacks in Afghanistan?
Doing proper background checks to ascertain if recruits have Taliban affiliations is just one of the many challenges facing the U.S. and NATO as they prepare for withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of 2014
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 …
Must-Reads from Around the World
Today’s picks: Africa’s illegal elephant ivory trade reaches its highest point, a new school year in Hong Kong begins amidst mass protests and hunger strikes, and British Prime Minister David Cameron chooses his new cabinet.
Must-Reads from Around the World
Today’s required reading: The United States strikes strategic defense partnership with India, Vietnam’s political elite struggle to connect to the public and renewed violence further delays any chance of a solution to the Turkish …
Sun Myung Moon, 1920–2012: The Death of a Messiah Who Made It Rich
Moon typified what many American parents saw in a threatening age of cults and new religions. But his spiritual self-enterprise built an empire
Sun Myung Moon: The Life and Times of the Unification Church Leader
By the time of his death Sept. 2 at age 92, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon headed a congregation of millions, including many thousands he’d married himself. A look back at how the Unification Church grew.
How Tehran Shut Itself Down to Work Better
To improve security and traffic during the Non-Aligned Movement conference, the Iranian capital gave itself a five-day holiday and kept its residents off the streets
As Syrian Conflict Rages, France Examines Potential Terrorism Risks
French security officials reveal to TIME evidence of aspiring militants leaving France for Syria to join Islamists battling the Assad regime — and warn the Middle Eastern country could join Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen as a …
Gujarat Riots: New Court Verdict Raises the Heat on Narendra Modi
A court case in the western Indian state of Gujarat, dealing out justice a decade after some of the country’s worst religious violence, may haunt the man vying to be India’s next Prime Minister