Its been a big week for Britain. Queen Elizabeth II is partying hard for her Diamond Jubilee, celebrating 60 years in power; the Olympic torch is making its way across the nation; and one out of 10 B...
UN and US warn of civil war in Syria Top story: During an emergency meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay warned that the crisis in S...
Russian President Vladimir Putin doesnt choose his foreign visits lightly. On May 31, Putin makes his first trip abroad since being inaugurated for a third term as president on May 7, to neighboring ...
The surprising electoral success of Ahmed Shafiq has many Egyptians worried about the Mubarak-era elite holding on to power, but at least one vestige of that era comes to an end tonight as a 31-year ...
Free Syrian Army commander gives ultimatum as new atrocity is revealed Top story: A statement issued by the Free Syrian Army gives the government an ultimatum to adhere to a U.N.-brokered peace plan ...
On Monday, U.S. blogger David Axe quoted Brig. Gen. Neil Tolley as saying that U.S. special forces parachute into North Korea in order to spy on Pyongyangs underground military facilities. The U.S. m...
When Mike Hammer, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs, conducted the State Departments first ever press briefing in Spanish in March, the last question he fielded was "Cuándo va ...
vs. Malawi is changing its flag for the second time in two years, reverting to the rising red sun it used from independence in 1964 until 2010, when it was changed by the late President Bingu wa Muth...
The kerfuffle of the day is President Barack Obama making a reference to "Polish death camps" while posthumously awarding Polish resistance hero Jan Karski a Presidential Medal of Freedom l...
Charles Taylor sentenced to 50 years in jail Top news: Judges with the Special Court for Sierra Leone at the Hague sentenced former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years in jail on Wednesday,...
In between warnings of the impending race war, I see Drudge Report is prominently touting the headline "UN appoints Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe new envoy for tourism..." If true, this i...
A new Pew Global Attitudes Project survey shows Europeans with a deeply ambivalent attitude about the future of the euro and a stark divide in optimism about the future. The New York Times summarizes...
Candidates office burns as Egyptians protest election results Top story: New protests broke out in Egypt following the official announcement that former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik and Muslim Brother...
Its often said that politics makes strange bedfellows. Leave it to Silvio Berlusconi, the scandal-ridden former premier of Italy, to make the platitude uncomfortably literal. Thanks to an ongoing tri...
If youre waking up this morning and trying to catch up on the results of the Egyptian presidential election, youve got your work cut out for you. Preliminary vote counts first suggested that the coun...
Early Egyptian election results point to leading candidates for run-off Top news: The ballots from Egypts two-day presidential election are still being counted, and official results arent expected un...
Egyptians vote in second day of presidential elections Top news: Egyptians are queuing up at polling stations for a second straight day in the countrys first free presidential elections, though the B...
File this in the category of ‘they do things differently in China. For those curious about the Chinese "Rent a White Guy" phenomenon, whereby a Chinese company will employ a foreigner part-...
Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA collect data that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden, was convicted of high treason today and sentenced to 33 years in prison. Given the seve...
Egyptians head to the polls for historic vote Top news: Fifteen months after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, Egypts are heading to the polls today for the countrys first competitive election. So far, li...
Yesterday, I had the chance to speak with David Coltart, Zimbabwes Minister of Education, Sport, and Culture. A human rights lawyer who campaigned against the regimes of Ian Smith and Robert Mugabe, ...
Two troubling reports today on the pervasiveness of counterfeiting. First, in U.S. military equipment: A year-long probe found 1,800 cases of fake parts in US military aircraft, the Senate Armed Serv...
Al Qaeda-linked group claims credit for Yemen attack Top news: A group tied to Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a bombing in Yemens capital that killed more than 100 people yesterday. The bomb...
Egypts own presidential election may be narrowing, but according to a new Brookings Institution poll, when it comes to who Egyptians would like to see in the White House next year, its not even close...
Last week Yang Rui, an anchor of CCTV Dialogue, one of the flagship programs on Chinas English language TV network, aired his views about the tens of thousands of foreigners living in Beijing and thr...
South Africas ruling ANC is going to court this week in an attempt to have a satirical painting of President Jacob Zuma removed from a Johannesburg gallery. "The Spear" by artist Brett Murr...
In contrast to some other members of her family, its pretty rare that Queen Elizabeth II makes political waves. But a lunch held last Friday for royals from around the world to celebrate the Queens d...
Afghan war dominates NATO summit Top news: A two-day NATO summit got underway in Chicago on Sunday shortly after a deal to reopen supply lines through Pakistan to Afghanistan collapsed, placing the b...
Its hard to be an Egyptian revolutionary these days. You gave your blood and sweat to overthrow Hosni Mubarak last year -- but now one year later, some of the most senior officials from the ancien re...
Sacha Baron Cohens The Dictator is not the only political comedy to hit the screens recently. North Korean local TV has aired a "satire on the rat-like Lee Myung Bak for his high treason," ...
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