With Osama bin Laden and Mafiosi, similar patterns emerge when ultra-infamous criminals are forced into hiding.
Month: May 2011
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Opinion: The killing of Osama bin Laden marks a unique melding of American hard and soft power, and a boost (with legs) for President Obama
Opinion: As the U.S. celebrates the killing of its No. 1 enemy, one German commentator says Americans should ask themselves: was it worth it?
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Arab Spring: The Female Factor
Are the Arab uprisings a boon for women’s rights? Though they’ve helped topple regimes across the Arab world, women now must struggle for a role in the new system of power.
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The Second Death Of Osama Bin Laden
Editorial: This year’s “Arab spring” was the death knell for Osama Bin Laden’s ideology of international jihad. Still, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to restrictions on civil liberties in Europe and the United States, his legacy l
Best known for its preppy polo shirts, fashion giant Lacoste is diversifying: targeting women, children and branché (hip) youth in an effort to push yearly earnings toward the 1.5 billion euro mark.
From waiters to homeless beggars, the Syrian regime is busily recruiting ever more informants in its desperate attempt to survive.
A new trend in retirement housing offers American-style amenities with classic French flavor in converted convents and restored countryside heritage sites.
Silvio Berlusconi’s decision for Italy to join the bombing campaign against Gaddafi has roots and reverberations across a region where all is connected, and nothing is certain.
She was the 17-year-old who lured the Jewish victim of a high-profile hate crime. He ran the Versailles prison where she was serving time. Their scandalous romance exposed, Florent Goncalves tells how he fell for Emma Arbabzadeh, girl of the Gang of Barba
A Chinese film critic looks at how his country is portrayed in Mao’s Last Dancer, an Australian movie, and Last Train Home, a recent Canadian documentary.
A new survey asks U.S. students about the high-profile case of the American convicted of murder in Perugia. A surprisingly high number say they consider Amanda Knox’s fate when weighing whether to study abroad in Italy.
Influential Italian Cardinal Camillio Ruini says inside the secret Conclave to elect John Paul’s successor, he was given a signed petition from his brother Cardinals to push for fast-track sainthood for the recently deceased pontiff.
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A Tale Of Two Capitalisms
The French government’s plans to force companies to pay employee bonuses whenever they raise dividends to shareholders has prompted controversy in France. Is there any right way to divide the profit pie between workers and shareholders?
Among the new Wikileaks documents is the case of a Catholic-Iranian army deserter Abdul Majid Muhammed, a “low-value detainee” who nevertheless spent four years in Guantanamo — just in case he might have tips on drug trafficking.
With eminent artist-activist Ai Weiwei whisked away by an increasingly repressive regime in Beijing, star performance artist Zhang Huan shows how to be careful with his words, but fearless in his work.
Germany’s Bavaria offers a snapshot of the global competition for the internatinal crime pie. There, criminal clans from Eastern Europe muscle in where Italian mobsters once reigned.
Growing ambitions and soap operatic history inside his own family challenge Bashar al-Assad’s rule, as Syrian forces try to snuff out a growing popular revolt.
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The West Must Hold Its Nerve In Libya
Editorial: a Le Figaro correspondent in Libya says the anti-Gaddafi coalition should not give in to gloom or impatience. The rebels still enjoy widespread popular support – but they need help from the West.
Editorial: Pope Benedict uses Holy Week, and the coming beatification of John Paul II, to face down the Church’s demons. And acknowledge its durability.
Anti-corruption officials in Tunisia are looking into French companies linked, willingly or not, with the clan of ousted President Ben Ali.
The Lyon Museum of Fine Arts connects Islamic arts and modern Europe.
With their rugged mountains and jewel-like fishing ships, the Traena islands are Norway’s dreamlike destination.
The Kneipp spa-hotels in Austrian offer wellness holidays with a difference: the resorts are run by an order of nuns and base their holistic treatments on a tradition founded 100 years ago by a Roman Catholic priest.
In Calabria, on the southern heel of the Italian boot, the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate may be more powerful than the Church, or even soccer. And on Easter, they all want to hold Santa Maria.
While Sir Mick Jagger rocks the world with the Rolling Stones, his younger brother Chris croons country music in English village halls. The beast of burden being Mick’s kid brother.
No, the battle for Abidjan is not over. In a vast and densely populated area of the Ivory Coast’s largest city, Laurent Gbagbo loyalists are still fighting 10 days after his arrest.
With the price of western medicine proving too costly for large swathes of India’s population, traditional medicine is being billed as the new financial and medical cure-all.
An insider with a penchant for ruffling official feathers, popular television host Vladimir Pozner pushes boundaries while still toeing the party line.
The Libyan rebel city is witnessing a torrent of journalistic enthusiasm, with new TV stations and free newspapers giving voice to the revolution.
At the gates of Benghazi, military training is being dispensed to all those eager to go to the frontlines. But enthusiasm can’t make up for poor hardware.
The Islamist “Farooq the German,” killed last year in Afghanistan, is now being celebrated as a martyr in a new German-language propaganda video.
Editorial: Barack Obama’s bid for re-election in 2012 could be smooth sailing, but is he chipping away at America’s leading role in the world?
The nude pictures of Turkish-German actress Sila Sahin spark debate over integration of Muslims in Germany, and elsewhere in Europe. It may also be a curveball for feminists.
The world’s largest Muslim nation has been a vibrant, multi-faith democracy for 13 years. But that has not spared Indonesia from a rising number of terrorist attacks and growing religious intolerance.
“This is Baccarat, not Ikea,” famed French designer Philippe Starck says of the Marie-Coquine, a whimsical new chandelier that made its debut in this year’s Milan furniture fair.
Much cheaper than Apple’s iPad, the Archos tablet is looking east for mass markets. But must rely on a new influx of investment capital.
Though he still cites Al-Qaeda as one of his prime enemies, Muammar Gaddafi issued the first international arrest warrant for Osama bin Laden in 1998. Is there a connection between the mysterious death of a German agent and Libyan efforts to capture the t
Editorial: Berlusconi’s use of the political system to fight his personal battles has become so overwhelming that little else is pursued in Italian public life. Tale of a nation blocked by one man’s troubles.