Exposure of the US National Security Agency’s vast intelligence collection program through the use of internet companies like Google and Facebook is creating headaches for allied governments across the world. UK Foreign Secretary William Hague attempted to assure Britons that privacy laws were...
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Internet users can close down Facebook pages, correct blog entries or scrub Twitter logs, but global observers take notice of prominent censorship. Jon Stewart of the Daily Show came to the defense of Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian comedian under investigation for mocking Egypt’s president and Islam....
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Europe’s youth are showing new awareness of the implications of deficit spending, a lack of jobs, widening gaps in income and social protections, and other systemic problems. Governments in Europe, like those in Arab states, must contend with discontent as increasing numbers of educated, yet...
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China claims the bulk of the South China Sea almost as its lake, and bristles about what it considers hostile passage of foreign naval vessels in the economic zone. The Obama administration has recently sent notice it insists on freedom of navigation and it expects peaceful resolution of...
Hillary Clinton provoked an uproar last week when she said a peaceful resolution to the South China Sea territorial dispute is in America's "national interest." China's Foreign Ministry denounced those remarks as unwarranted American meddling and an...
At a time when the EU needs to present a united voice if not in policy, at least in speech, at the G-20 summit, the union is in chaos. In the second article of this three-part series on the G-20 Summit and the Future of Capitalism, professor of International Political Economy, Jean-Pierre Lehmann...
United in disagreement: As the global crisis deepens, European Union leaders make solutions harder with their cacophonous disunity
GENEVA: As London hosts the second summit of the G-20 on 2 April, an event that could impact the course of global...
Switzerland has long been defined by its neutrality, a quality that has allowed its diverse population (of which one-fifth are immigrants) to avoid serious strife along ethnic or religious lines. Now, however, the rightist Swiss People's Party has initiated a referendum on the banning of...
ZURICH -- An emotional debate over the role of Islam in Switzerland is heating up as a referendum approaches that would ban the construction of minarets on mosques.
On Nov. 29, the Swiss will vote on a referendum to ban the construction of minarets...
Relaxing on the beach isn’t the only reason to go abroad these days. Increasingly, Americans are traveling to foreign countries for “medical tourism” – electing to receive hospital treatment in a foreign country. The majority of medical tourists seek lower-cost medical procedures due to poor or no...
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The extraordinary success of the European project inspired French President Nicolas Sarkozy to initiate a cooperative union for the Mediterranean states. As Sarkozy describes it, the union of projects would cooperate on shared goals, from securing energy and water to removing pollution from the...
Photo-Op: President Sarkozy (center) joins hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, gathered in Paris for the summit of the Mediterranean Union
PARIS: In the middle of July...