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Welcome to Wednesday, where Democrats are on course for U.S. Senate control, Hong Kong cracks down on activists and the Czech Republic launches its own “COVID currency.” Meanwhile, Persian-language daily Kayhan-London takes a look at what has changed (and what hasn’t) in Iran, a year since the killing of top military commander Qasem Soleimani. SPOTLIGHT: […]
With a battered economy and recent anti-government street protests, can Iran fulfill its promise to avenge the U.S. killing of Qasem Soleimani? Can it afford not to?
Welcome to Monday, where the UK blocks Assange’s extradition, vaccinations are moving too slowly (almost) everywhere and the Asian business world is asking: Where’s Jack? We also follow Le Monde to Casablanca where Moroccans are rethinking what it means to be a man. SPOTLIGHT: DEMOCRACY HAS MORE GRIT THAN YOU MIGHT THINK There are more […]
LES ECHOS France’s Yellow Vests And The Problem With Post-Truth Economics Opinion shapers have a habit these days of disregarding facts, be they scientific or economic. Opinions matter, of course, but shouldn’t supersede well-founded knowledge. SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG RoboJudge: When Laws Are Transformed Into Computer Code Laws take time to catch up with reality. Could we […]
Welcome to Thursday, where Israel announces a 3rd national lockdown, a Brexit deal looks imminent, and we’ve got the price for zooming with Santa in Lapland. We also look at the effects the pandemic is having on the gig economy. SPOTLIGHT: JOE BIDEN’S REAL CHALLENGE: MOVING BEYOND ANTI-TRUMPISM President-elect Joe Biden’s ample support base is […]
LA STAMPA Meet The Doctor’s Maid Who Inspired The Mediterranean Diet A housekeeper with serious culinary skills helped feed the mind and mouth of Ancel Keys, the American doctor famous for documenting the health benefits of Mediterranean food. THE INITIUM Yulin To Paris: Dog-Eating At Center Of Animal Rights Battle A Chinese dog meat festival […]
Welcome to Wednesday, where Trump blocks U.S. stimulus package, the last continent gets its first COVID cases and Messi breaks Pele’s record. We also discover the different ways the world’s teachers kept 1.5 billion students learning through the pandemic’s lockdowns. SPOTLIGHT: A HUMAN MUTATION: PANDEMIC TRIALS, TRANS SPECIES VISIONS Seeing Manel de Aguas can prompt […]
Welcome to Tuesday, where the UK’s isolation deepens, Rio’s mayor gets arrested and a baby elephant gets CPR. And if you’re late on your Christmas shopping, Die Welt tells you not to worry: kids have too many toys anyway. SPOTLIGHT: BORIS JOHNSON AND THE COLLAPSE OF CHAOS-AS-LEADERSHIP As the sudden arrival of harsh new lockdown […]
Welcome to Monday, where stocks plummet and borders are blocked after news from Britain about a new faster spreading COVID strain. Mada Masr also takes us to Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region and considers the ramifications of the conflict along the border with Sudan. SPOTLIGHT: THE PANDEMIC HAS CHANGED THE MEANING OF WORK AND FREE TIME […]
Welcome to Friday, where the hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian students have been freed, Russia has been banned from the Olympics and French police have made a high-profile arrest in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking probe. We also follow Yemen’s itinerant honey producers as they (and their bees) dodge the stings of the country’s ongoing civil […]
Welcome to Thursday, where Emmanuel Macron has COVID, air pollution is guilty in the death of a 9-year old, and couscous is culture. Meanwhile we look at how “cancel culture” in India is a very different thing. SPOTLIGHT: TEN YEARS LATER, THE ARAB SPRING DELUSION MUST NOT KILL HOPE When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on […]
The country’s leadership is opening a Pandora’s box by normalizing brutality and impunity.
Welcome to Wednesday, where the pandemic has spiked again in Germany and South Korea, New Zealand reports decades of child abuse and a cigar box contains an ancient Egyptian mystery. Le Monde, meanwhile, reports on France’s Chechen community reeling since a radicalized 18-year-old beheaded a French teacher in October. SPOTLIGHT: THE NEXT PANDEMIC MAY BE […]
Welcome to Tuesday, where Trump’s Attorney General resigns, Somalia cuts diplomatic ties with Kenya and we meet one weird-looking dinosaur. Meanwhile, t’is the season to look at how the world is getting ready for a very special kind of Christmas. SPOTLIGHT: EUROPE IS RIGHT TO CALL UP BIG GUNS AGAINST BIG TECH Europe is moving […]
Trump’s biggest problem, it’s safe to say, are all those pesky checks and balances. *Luckily, those limitations don’t apply in ‘the world’s largest democracy.’
Darwin may have poked a hole in the Christian creation myth. But historically speaking, the relationship between science and religion has been far more nuanced than most people imagine.
The editor of Mada Masr, a Worldcrunch partner publication based in Cairo, explains how they wound up making news itself last month.
Facebook, Google and other platforms are not doing enough to make political ads more transparent.
What began as a slogan shared among Facebook users has since morphed into a full-blown, youth-led movement for deep structural changes in the war-torn country.
Even after 72 years, the echoes of India’s division into two independent states continue to reverberate.
Protesters in Lebanon and Iraq have been venting their fury at Iran, which is accused of practically running their countries. Tehran is not afraid to come down hard on its domestic opponents.
Economist Abhijit Banerjee’s win is a non-cricketing triumph on the global stage. So why aren’t Indians more excited?
It marked the end of an epoch: on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell — and seemingly in an instant, the decades-long Cold War was over. Built in 1961 by the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) to keep the different sectors of Berlin separated, the wall became the singular symbol of the Cold War divide, and a concrete example of the limits and repression of the communist system. The final chapter of the Cold War began when East Berlin’s Communist Party announced that, from midnight, citizens of the GDR could cross the Iron Curtain. “Tor auf!” (“Open […]
A Manifesto for Tali’at, a new movement seeking to put the feminist cause at the center of the battle for Palestinian rights.
CAIRO — Trapped in the ordinary life of waking up early to get on with daily housework or visiting with extended family, a group of young upper Egyptian girls had a simple dream: to play soccer. But they were uncertain whether the traditional society in which they live would allow them to realize their goal. […]
At the 150th anniversary of the Indian independence leader and philosopher of non-violence, looking back long line of African-American leaders influenced by his ideas.
They have their differences, of course, but the interests of Egypt and Israel have increasingly aligned since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014.
The Mahatma’s universalism is far from Modi sectarian-nationalist approach. But it’s more than just a matter of international branding for the Prime Minister.
Alaa was taken away by the Egyptian state. Mohamed al-Baqer, a human rights lawyer, was also detained when he showed up to attend Alaa’s interrogation.
The government recently gave foreigners the go-ahead to visit 137 peaks in four states, paving the way for a potential flood of visitors to the world’s tallest mountain range.
Warmer temperatures and plastic waste lying about reminded an expedition to Svalbard that no part of Earth is untouched by the activities of its humans.
CAIRO — Something big — that we do not yet fully understand — is happening in Egypt’s halls of power. Maybe we know some of it, and will get to know more with time. Perhaps we won’t learn more at any time in the near future. What we do know is that the build-up to […]
As the showdown deepens over the contested region with Pakistan, India is now weighing whether to water down its nuclear no-first-strike policy.
Robert Frank, who died last week at the age of 94, was one of the true giants in the history of photography. Known first and foremost for his 1958 book The Americans, a raw, all-encompassing portrait of America’s post-War society
There are plenty of reasons for pessimism. But we also need to keep trying — and hoping — for ways to cooperate across continents.
It’s taken the powerful prime minister just 100 days into his second term to compromise the federation’s basic foundation.
BEIRUT — Located in the heart of Beirut’s vibrant Hamra Street, an area that served as a hub for intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s, Metro al-Madina is an independent theater company and cabaret. The theater was founded in 2012 by Hisham Jaber & co. from the rubble of an abandoned theater with aspirations of […]
Indian wartime experience not only contributed to making the country and her institutions what they are today but offers lessons that still have significant validity.
CAIRO — “Take care and hopefully see you soon. :)” I end the short letter to my family with a few requests for items to bring on their next visit, then hand it to one of my cellmates to give to his wife, who will pass it on to my mother the day after her […]
Compared to measures being taken in the Kashmir Valley, China’s handling of the Hong Kong protests seems remarkably permissive.