To get a sense of the deep emotions linked to oil in Mexico, travel up the capital’s imperious Reforma Avenue to the towering petroleum monument. Using 14 tons of bronze, the statue portrays huge, muscular oil workers in heroic …
Guardian Editor Claims U.K. Authorities Destroyed Newspaper’s Hard Drives
On Aug. 18, David Miranda, the Brazilian partner of American journalist Glenn Greenwald, was stopped and held at Heathrow for nine hours, the legal maximum under the country’s antiterrorism law, before being released without …
Soccer Diplomacy: Casting Tensions Aside, Afghanistan and Pakistan Play First Match in Three Decades
Soccer fans are getting ready to pack the stands in Kabul today as the Afghan national team prepares to play its first home game in over 10 years against Pakistan. It’s also the first time that the two neighboring teams have gone …
Egypt’s Military Defends Public Image Abroad After Fighting Protests at Home
In the Internet age, the war fought online is often as furious — if not as deadly — as the war fought on the ground. As Egypt‘s political crisis deepens, the social-media battle is one the Egyptian military, which ousted the democratically elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi on July 3, has thus far been losing.
The generals …
A Deadly Gamble: Egypt’s Salafists May Now Regret Support for the Military
A month ago, the Nour Party, the largest political group to emerge from the ultraconservative Salafist movement, was seen as Egypt’s kingmaker when it dramatically joined the military-led ousting of Islamist President Mohamed …
China’s Emerging Civil Society Prompts Fresh Media Crackdowns
Together with his neighbors, journalist Chen Baocheng had been involved in a long-running land-confiscation dispute with the local authorities in Pingdu, a city of about 1.3 million people in the northeastern Chinese province of …
WATCH: Volcano in Japan Blows Its Top
This is the 500th time the volcano has erupted this year.
U.N. Chemical-Weapons Experts Arrive in Syria: Are They on a Fool’s Errand?
After a six-month delay, U.N. chemical-weapons experts have finally arrived in Syria to find out what exactly happened in Khan al-Asal, near the city of Aleppo, on March 19, when 31 people died in what appears to have been a …
The New Princess Diana Revelations: How Conspiracy Theories Still Haunt Her Death
Sixteen years after her car crash in Paris, there’s another round of speculation that the Princess’s death was no accident. Don’t believe it
While the Rest of North Korea Struggles, Pyongyang’s Fortunate Few Go Shopping
The city of Pyongyang may conjure up images of Mass Games and goose-stepping sentries, but the North Korean capital looks very different from the place it was 10 years ago. It’s not just the new high-rises, even the people …
Norway’s Far Right May Come to Power Despite Memory of Anders Breivik’s Killing Spree
Prableen Kaur has arrived at Grorud Naersenter, a drab shopping mall on the outskirts of Oslo, armed with hundreds of red roses and an unshakable faith in Norway’s democracy. The roses are an easy sell. “It’s an icebreaker …
More Than Two Years After Meltdown, Doubt and Fear Remain Over Fukushima’s Safety
Two-and-a-half years after an earthquake and tsunami rocked the Fukushima plant and spewed radioactive waste across the region, tens of thousands of evacuees still live in a fugue of fear and confusion
Viewpoint: Egypt No Longer Matters
It’s time for Washington to recognize that Cairo is not the center of the Arab world