Protest This – The Jerusalem Post writes that the IDF condemned an officer Monday who was filmed striking a pro-Palestinian activist with his gun. A video posted on YouTube by the International Solidarity Movement showed Lt.-Col. …
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TIME Interviews French Presidential Front-Runner François Hollande
This is an extended version of TIME’s interview with Socialist Party candidate and Elysée frontrunner François Hollande. A condensed text is published in the international editions of TIME (and
Must-Reads From Around the World: April 12, 2012
Pyongyang’s Plan – Despite mounting international pressure, a defiant North Korea appears poised to launch its Unha-3 rocket, viewed by the U.S. and others as a ballistic missile test that violates U.N. resolutions aimed at …
How the Extreme Right and Left Will Affect France’s Presidential Race
Money time in France’s current presidential election won’t come before the May 6 run-off between probable mainstream finalists, incumbent conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist François Hollande. For now, though, that …
The Günter Grass Debacle: Blowback from Anti-Israel Poem Envelopes Both Sides
Günter Grass, the German author who waited until he’d won a Nobel Prize before revealing that he’d served in Hitler’s SS, might seem an unlikely vessel for criticism of Israel (in 2006 he confessed that in 1944, at the age of …
Must-Reads From Around the World: April 11, 2012
Syria on Deadline — Even as Syrian activists reported fresh rounds of shelling Wednesday, the U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan expressed cautious optimism that the Syrian regime would honor the April 12 ceasefire plan. Analysts …
Did British Ministers Approve the Illegal Rendition and Torture of Libyan Dissidents?
On March 7, 2004, in a joint CIA-MI6 operation, Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhadj and his wife Fatima Bouchar were arrested at Bangkok’s airport. Belhadj, who had sought to undermine Muammar Gaddafi’s regime for years as the …
The Bo Xilai Saga: With Wife Implicated in Murder, Ousted Chinese Official Loses Communist Party Posts
The wife of Bo Xilai, a high-level Chinese politician, is under investigation for the murder of a British businessman, the state-run Xinhua news service reported late Tuesday, the first official word on the allegations that led …
Abu Hamza’s Extradition: European Court Approves Moving Terror Suspect to the United States
Five terror suspects, including the radical Islamic preacher Abu Hamza, can be extradited to the United States to face trial, despite their lawyers’ assertion that they would face “torture” at the hands of U.S. authorities. The …
Must-Reads From Around the World: April 10, 2012
Brazil Matters — A day after Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff visited Barack Obama at the White House, The New York Times explores the evidence of a palpable disconnect between the Latin American giant’s self image as a …
Rambo Amadeus’ ‘Euro Neuro’: Eurovision Takes On the Euro Zone
Rambo Amadeus, who describes himself as “one of the most prominent cult figures on the ex-Yugoslav music scene,” made a name for himself as a musical freedom fighter. In 1989, with the communists still pulling the strings in …
Must-Reads from Around the World: April 6, 2012
Warring Words – Der Spiegel reports on the raging controversy surrounding German Nobel laureate Günter Grass’s new poem, which is sharply critical of Israel. The poet has taken to the airwaves to defend himself, while Israeli …
After James Murdoch Jumps Ship, Sky News Admits to E-Mail Hacking
For a seasoned businessman like James Murdoch, timing is everything. As TIME pointed out yesterday, his decision to resign as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) comes just weeks before a parliamentary committee …