Tuesday’s picks include Africa’s next megacity and used-car lots in Hong Kong.
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Must-Reads from Around the World, July 30, 2012
Today’s selections include self-immolations in Israel and the trial of punk-artist-feminist-protesters in Russia.
Must-Reads from Around the World, July 27, 2012
Today’s picks include the rise of a long-dead Italian leader and the archetypical vixen.
Must-Reads from Around the World, July 26, 2012
Today’s required reading: Romney’s Euro vision, the London Olympics from Ai Weiwei’s point of view and reports of renewed repression in Mali.
Must-Reads from Around the World, July 25, 2012
Among today’s picks: An endless battle in eastern Syria, melting ice, and the CNOOC-Nexen deal.
Must-Reads from Around the World, July 20, 2012
Today’s picks include major economic reforms proposed by North Korean leader Kim Jon Un, the rejection of an appeal by Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei and U.N. Security Council members blaming each other for failing to come to an agreement on Syria.
Must-Reads From Around the World, July 18, 2012
Today’s global media stories look at evidence that a pirate leader has been granted diplomatic immunity by the Somali presidency, the defeat of Islamists at Libya’s first elections since the overthrow of Gaddafi and the …
Must-Reads from Around the World, July 17, 2012
Today’s picks: Syria’s most senior defector thinks President Assad is “ready to use chemical weapons,” a U.S. senate probe learns that HSBC has been aiding Mexican drug money laundering, and reaction to the African Union electing …
Must-Reads from Around the World, July 16, 2012
After meeting the generals in Egypt, Hillary Clinton arrives in Israel; Poland wants to frack itself; are women in North Korea now wearing shorter skirts?
Must-Reads from Around the World, July 13, 2012
Today’s picks include the official report into the death of June 4 dissident Li Wangyang, signs of internal strife in Iran and the Indian Navy’s IT personnel plans
Must-Reads from Around the World, July 12, 2012
Today’s global picks: another Syrian defection, the U.S. wades into the South China Sea and the decline of the Tetra Pak dynasty.
Must-Reads from Around the World, July 11, 2012
Today’s required reading: an interview with the Taliban, reporting from flood-hit Russia and go “inside Syria.”
Must-Reads from Around the World, July 10, 2012
Today’s picks: the stormy waters of the South China Sea, India faces the fallout from late monsoon rains and a controversial German writer and economist (not surprisingly) speaks his mind