A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Guatemala Wednesday killing more than 52 and injuring hundreds. The 20-mile-deep quake’s epicenter was near the coastal town of Champerico, but the effects were felt heavily 80 miles away in the …
The Anti-Assad Offensive: Can the West Oust Syria’s Strongman?
Scarcely hours after his re-election, President Obama was under pressure from U.S. allies to take stronger action on Syria. Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron told reporters on Nov. 7, during a visit to a Syrian refugee camp …
Is Gay Marriage Too Progressive for the French?
The leftist government of French President François Hollande tables legislation to legalize same-sex marriages and adoptions amid rising opposition and public hesitation
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Four Afghan police are sentenced to 16 years in prison for rape charges, France adopts a draft bill to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption, and China gets set for a leadership transition.
From Mexico to Moscow, the World Turns On to U.S. Marijuana Legalization
The landmark passage of amendments in Colorado and Washington State legalizing marijuana is a turning point in the global conversation on drugs
Code Red: China’s Leadership Transition Begins Amid Pomp and Security
And so it has begun. On the morning of Nov. 8, just a day (because of the time difference) after U.S. voters re-elected President Barack Obama, China launched its once-a-decade leadership transition. President Hu Jintao is …
What Should the Middle East Expect from Obama’s Second Term?
“This is my last election,” President Barack Obama told then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in comments picked up by a mike in Seoul last March. “After my election, I have more flexibility.”
The Other Concession Speech: Netanyahu Congratulates Obama
Like his friend Mitt Romney, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quite plainly wanted just one term for Barack Obama. Now, he must move on.
The Ogaden Problem: Will an Old Insurgency Tip the Balance in East Africa?
How Ethiopia’s inability to reconcile the Ogaden’s rebels has implications for militants and governments across the Horn of Africa
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Dengue fever raises alarm in India, the Brazilian government has new plans to fight violence in São Paulo, and the world reacts to President Barack Obama’s re-election
The Palestinian ‘Right of Return’: Abbas Wades into the Morass
What Mahmoud Abbas said last week was that he’d like to visit his hometown, not live there. But because that hometown — the picturesque Galilee city of Safed — is in what’s today Israel, and because, as leader of the …
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Aid workers in Burma receive threats for delivering aid to victims of sectarian violence, China is eclipsing India as the world’s biggest buyer of gold, and Greek protesters take to the streets of Athens once again
How Will the New Coptic Pope Deal with the New Islamist Egypt?
The 117th successor of Saint Mark is not expected to rock relations with the government. But he may have to