Venezuela’s socialist President easily won re-election on Sunday, reminding opposition leaders – and Washington – just how badly their earlier anti-Chávez strategies may have set them back
The Balkan Wars: 100 Years Later, a History of Violence
The Balkan wars, which began on Oct. 8, 1912, are considered minor footnotes in 20th century history. But they mean so much more
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On deck for Monday: The World Bank lowers its GDP outlook for East Asia, the U.N. urges countries to plan for aging populations, and what now for Venezuela?
According to What? The Ai Weiwei Retrospective in Washington D.C.
The show takes its name from a 1964 Jasper Johns work and explores the controversial Chinese artist-activist’s attempts to make art a way of looking at the world–and challenging its authorities–rather than accumulating artifacts.
The Artist Who Can’t Leave China: An Interview with Ai Weiwei
One of the world’s most-famous artists is having an important retrospective in the Smithsonian, but Ai Weiwei can’t attend because the authorities in Beijing won’t give him back his passport. He talks to TIME about his art, his …
French Anti-Terror Raids Leave Extremist Suspect Dead
Multiple French sweeps leave a Salafist suspect dead after gunfight with police, and mark a return to France’s multi-discipline counter-terror system over the all-intelligence model of former President Nicolas Sarkozy
The Vatican Sentences the Pope’s Butler: Is a Pardon on the Way?
The pontiff was the victim, the person in whose name the crime was committed, the authority under which the trial was held and the arbiter of whether the sentence will be carried out.
The Benghazi Consulate: Has the Crime Scene Been Contaminated?
Even as the FBI prepares to investigate the incident that led to the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, the consulate grounds may have been left unguarded for too long
Hugo Chávez’s Re-election Bid: Is the Latin American Left Stumbling?
Venezuela’s firebrand socialist president is no longer a shoo-in to win re-election on Oct. 7—for reasons that are also haunting other leaders on the Latin American left.
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On deck for Friday: Death count reveals 18 children and one adult killed by a landslide in the southwest China’s Yunnan province, Morocco bars the entrance of a Dutch ship that provides abortion services, Jordan’s King dissolves …
Syria’s Up-and-Coming Rebels: Who Are the Farouq Brigades?
Amid the hodgepodge of groups that make up the armed opposition to Bashar Assad, one organization is coming dramatically to the fore
Behind the Story: TIME’s Catherine Mayer Discusses Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny
TIME’s Europe editor, Catherine Mayer, talks about how she reported and wrote her magazine story on how Ireland’s Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, is trying to fix his country’s battered economy
Quiet Reception as Taiwan Opposition-Party Heavyweight Visits China
Frank Hsieh’s visit to China suggests a new willingness among Taiwan’s opposition leaders to engage with their neighbors across the strait