As the vice president is now virtually assured to face Donald Trump on November 5, questions arise on what her election to U.S. president would mean for the rest of the world.
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Everywhere stars rise to power as charismatic demagogues and risk-takers, but these very qualities breed in them an implacable desire to control all power and push away all they see as worthy replacements.
It is far too soon to tell whether Donald Trump’s attempted murder will have a decisive impact on the results of the U.S. presidential elections, but his backers will certainly milk the incident for all it’s worth.
After spending the past five years in prison in the UK and nearly 15 years battling for his freedom, the founder of WikiLeaks is set to be released. Nonetheless, his case sends a terrifying message to any sources sitting on evidence of abuses by the government and its agencies.
The headlines on front pages from New York to around the world dedicated to Donald Trump becoming the first American President to have been a felon. Here is a selection of newspaper front pages from 15 countries.
Turkey is a NATO ally of the United States, but American officials have summarily dismissed its input about airstrikes in Iraq, even with Turkish lives on the line. Why Turkey needs to clarify itself in so many ways.
NEW YORK TIMES, REUTERS, ATLANTIC WIRE (US) Worldcrunch BEIJING –The New York Times says that it has been repeatedly targeted by Chinese cyber-attacks over the past four months, following a report the newspaper had published detailing allegations of hidden wealth of China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. The American Newspaper claimed that these hacking attempts failed. […]
NEW YORK TIMES (U.S.), THE BBC (UK) Worldcrunch BEIJING – China’s foreign ministry Friday blocked access to the website of the New York Times in response to the newspaper’s investigation into the wealth of Chinese premier Wen Jiabao’s family. The article by David Barboza, which was published late Thursday, reported that Wen’s extended family have […]
NEW YORK TIMES (US), THE TELEGRAPH (UK), REUTERS Worldcrunch An unfolding sex abuse scandal at the BBC risks spilling over to another premier global news source across the Atlantic. The New York Times’ public editor, Margaret Sullivan, has questioned whether former BBC chief, Mark Thompson, who has been tapped to be the new Times CEO […]
NEW YORK TIMES (USA) Worldcrunch NEW YORK – Eleven years after 9/11, a writer with unprecedented access to pertinent classified documents says the Bush Administration ignored multiple “direct warnings” that Al Qaeda was planning to strike on American soil leading up to the Sep. 11, 2001 attack. In a piece published in the Op-Ed pages […]