The military or humanitarian “failures” of the United Nations over the years must be recognized as collective failures of member countries, argues Newsweek Editor Fareed Zakaria. The Rwandan genocide a decade ago is a case in point: Decisions made among the most powerful U.N. member nations,...
YOU have never heard of Paul Rusesabagina. But if you watch the stunning new movie Hotel Rwanda, you will never forget him. The movie tells the true story of Rusesabagina, an "ordinary" Rwandan, a hotel manager, who was...
Iran has moved swiftly in implementing terms of an international nuclear deal, and the nation's rising stock in the international community has alarmed rival Saudi Arabia. “As the economy falters, the Saudi regime seems to take aggressive stances in the foreign-policy arena in order to...
Nuclear deal fallout: US Secretary of State John Kerry with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif discuss new beginnings, top; Saudi Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman meets with air force officers to discuss operations in Yemen
BENGALURU: Just as...
Frigid temperatures delight those who deny climate change, but the long-term outlook is unnerving. “Rutgers University climate scientist Jennifer Francis and colleagues link that wavy jet stream to a warming Arctic, where climate changes near the top of the world are happening faster than in Earth’...
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Five years ago, the Northwestern city of Seattle made news when anti-globalization protests shut down a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Now, the city is back in the center of a national storm over trade imbalances and job loss. Seattle, the most trade-dependent city in the United States,...
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The hope for stability that came with the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) defeat of warlord militias in the Somali capital of Mogadishu has since dissolved into a division between two centers of power, both claiming to speak for the Somali people. Both are backed by separate outside forces. The...
During the past fifteen years of war and civil conflict in Somalia, most observers – Somalis and foreigners alike – have understood that a resolution to the country's problems could only come from agreement among...
A state-owned Russian company has given North Korea a second internet connection. The first one was provided by China Unicom. North Korea has thousands of trained cyber specialists, and the new connection could increase North Korea’s hacking capabilities while helping the country evade similar...
The Aceh region of Indonesia, among the hardest hit in last year's tsunami disaster, could be a strategic center in Indonesia's battle with terror – and in the larger struggle for security in Southeast Asia, writes Christopher Jasparro. Several groups with differing political aims –...
Back to business: After a brief lull brought by the tsunami disaster, the Indonesian army is back on the trail of Acheneses rebels
HONOLULU: The tsunami tragedy has begun fading from the headlines, but the...
In a book to be published this week, former US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott tells the story of President Bill Clinton’s personal diplomacy in averting a possible nuclear war in South Asia. The conflict began in May 1999, when Pakistani commandos infiltrated the Indian part of Kashmir in...
On the brink of a catastrophe: Indian artillery pound Pakistani infiltrators in the Kargil region of Kashmir. Pakistan was reported to be readying its nuclear weapons until President Clinton intervened
WASHINGTON: During...
