Donald Trump calls the white Boer minority in South Africa “disadvantaged” and offers them asylum in the U.S. But they want no part of it, as quickly becomes clear on a visit to Orania, the most controversial white settlement in the country.
Month: April 2025
Elon Musk, an unelected US official leading budget cuts, claims funding to contain Uganda’s Ebola outbreak “accidentally” ended temporarily. Ugandan officials say the US still offers support, but health workers argue that US help is gone.
Known for its historic architecture, booming nightlife and intellectual life, Poland’s second-largest city has much to offer in terms of local (and international) cuisine. Much like the city itself, Krakow’s food scene can be best described as a blend of old and new, combining Poland’s traditions with newer-wave experimentation.
April 4 – April 10, 2025
A Spanish court has quashed a rape conviction against a Barcelona soccer star, describing it as based, technically speaking, on evidence that was not compelling. This can only further discourage women already daunted by having to take an aggressor to court.
Trump’s tariffs are putting China’s shaky growth at serious risk. The standoff threatens to escalate across the globe, and the worst-case scenario would find the world’s two superpowers turning to other means.
With photographs from Washington, Port-au-Prince, Gaza and Agra, among other places.
Donald Trump has cultivated his image as a “disruptor,” a term coined by tech startups. But by launching a global trade war, the U.S. president risks achieving the opposite of what he intends. What’s the opposite of “great again?”
Herbicides pose environmental and human health risks but are also an essential tool for controlling invasive plants.
France is just the latest in what appears lately to be a non-stop showdown on this fundamental tension of any democratic society: On the one hand, an independent judiciary that treats even the most popular political leaders like every other citizen; on the other, the risk of judicial system usurping the will of voters to choose the leaders they want.
More good news this week from Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has avoided new tariffs from the U.S. What’s the secret to her success? It has to do with her pragmatic interpretation of from the same socialist National Regeneration Movement as her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
A decade ago, Saudi Arabia plunged directly into the Yemeni quagmire, launching a military intervention alongside several coalition countries. Everyone expected the battle to be settled in weeks. But it soon became clear, this flash intervention would turn into an endless war, making Yemen a testing ground for broader regional policies and interests.
China has conducted military exercises around Taiwan, simulating a blockade of the island that Beijing seeks to take over — a test of the Trump administration’s resolve to defend the self-governing territory. So far, the U.S. president has kept his cards close to the chest in East Asia.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s far-reaching new tariffs have sent markets falling, in a watershed moment that made the front page of many newspapers around the world.
American protectionism has returned, with tariffs that vary by country, but are permanent. There will be exceptions and specific negotiations but, in Trump’s intentions, they become one of the foundations of the American economy. The world must respond with this reality in mind.
Church leaders push for a common Easter date, as they seek to bridge centuries-old divisions between Eastern and Western Christian traditions.
Reducing sentences in family violence cases isn’t uncommon in Egypt. So women struggle from both: their families and the courts.
On social networks, people on the extreme right use emojis to encode their ideology. Over the past eight years, two Dutch researchers have become experts in this symbolic language that operates across borders — in the United States, the Netherlands and Germany alike.
The United States has “quietly” kept bombing Yemen, more than 50 times in two weeks. But what if Donald Trump’s real target is Iran?
In southern Italy, a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped by her parents for falling in love with a transgender man. Tracked down with a GPS, imprisoned, and forced to “recover” from her “disturbance.” Are we returning to the days of witch hunts?
When it comes to parental burnout, you don’t have to feel alone or isolated. Theories on how couples make it. A trip out to the cinema, and a wager.
The apparent exclusion of Marine Le Pen, leader of the Rassemblement National, from the 2027 French presidential race is a deliberate choice, not a legal necessity, explains prominent French attorney Hervé Lehman.
The EU should resist the temptation to retaliate against U.S tariffs on European cars. If we look closer at the recent past and the uncertain future, Trump’s bad intentions produce some good.
PARIS — April Fools’ Day is an international celebration of silliness, with roots in ancient Rome, India and the first written reference in The Canterbury Tales. In France and Italy, the poisson d’avril and pesce d’aprile respectively, is a traditional call to spend the day trying to tape a paper cut-out of a fish on […]
While voluntary enlistment is still strong in Ukraine, it is no longer enough. Kyiv has begun allowing prisoners to apply for early release in exchange for military service. While Russia’s similar policy was criticized, Ukrainian officials insist there are crucial differences.
Why is the U.S. suddenly hostile towards the EU? It’s a question of models and ideology, but also a wake-up call for Europeans for what’s at stake.
Egypt has perfected the art of passive resistance in navigating international pressures — delaying, complicating, and outlasting unwanted initiatives. From blocking the Arab NATO project to managing the fate of two Red Sea islands, Cairo deploys its bureaucratic “Madame Afaf” tactic to stall without confrontation. As Trump returns with bold regional proposals, Egypt is once again playing the long game, waiting out the storm.
Rife with understaffed hospitals, corrupt licensing and people who claim to be doctors, the health system struggles to protect patients from deadly medical fraud.