The age-old quest for a better life, the ever-increasing speed of travel that forms the heart of globalization, has also transformed modern literature. London-based writer Salil Tripathi describes Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie, both born in India and now living and celebrated in the West, as...
LONDON: To say globalization has transformed the world is a cliché, and that includes literature and their narrators. Two India-born novelists Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh have perhaps been the most successful in vividly portraying the lives of...
Chelyabinsk, transportation hub and one-time Russian industrial center for weapons manufacture, was closed to foreigners until 1992. The combination of crisscrossing highways, a million-plus population and Russians’ fondness for dashboard cameras in vehicles to collect evidence in the event of...
CHELYABINSK, Russia, Feb 15 (Reuters) - A meteorite streaked across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, raining fireballs over a vast area and causing a shock wave that smashed windows, damaged buildings and injured 1,200 people....
A team of investigators sent by Apple Computer to review practices at a factory in the Chinese city of Longhua found no evidence of child or forced labor. The group conducted 100 interviews with randomly selected workers, combed through thousands of documents and investigated the factory site run...
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More than fifty former British ambassadors and senior government officials signed a letter criticizing Prime Minister Tony Blair for his unflinching support of the Bush administration's policies in the Middle East. The signatories included former ambassadors to Israel, Iraq, and other Middle...
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Isolation from the rest of the world, a shroud of obsessive secrecy, allows North Korean leaders to brutalize their own citizens. A ruined economy leads to desperation, with thousands of escapes reported in recent years. The horrific stories from victims take years to emerge, only after prisoners...
Gulags of the Hermit Kingdom: Women in a North Korean prison camp (top); detainees in the country's largest camp (below)
NEW YORK: Recent reports from North Korea about the new leader, Kim Jong Un, and his “openness” are tantalizing. Coming months...
Germany's efforts to rebuild its once extensive trade relationship with Iraq face many obstacles, not the least of which is residual tensions with the US from the Iraq War. The US and Britain remain reluctant to contract with companies from countries that did not support the coalition. At the...
With the war over, rebuilding efforts underway and U.N. sanctions lifted, German companies are trying to rekindle their once large trade relationship with Iraq. But many German firms have signaled they...
巴勒斯坦和以色列之间长期以来混杂着各种利益和非正义行为，宛如压力锅，随时有爆炸的危险威胁。这对各个阵营的极端分子来说，是个现成的可以刺激以色列、巴勒斯坦民族权力机构和美国的领导人的问题。自从阿拉伯之春推翻了旧政权，尤其是在埃及，各处的穆斯林都受到鼓舞，他们强烈要求民主制度和完全的民意代表。耶鲁全球本系列三篇文章探索了经过激情的春天之后中东的新轮廓。在上篇中，耶鲁大学的古斯塔夫•拉尼斯（Gustav Ranis）分析了阿拉伯之春背后的冲突历史和影响，包括埃及与以色列之间和平条约遇到的新挑战。这是巴勒斯坦计划在联合国大会期间寻求联合国承认巴勒斯坦国家地位的背景，虽然以色列和美国表示强烈反对。...
新的对峙：埃及总统候选人穆萨（左上）欲重新界定埃以关系；在加沙，以色列士兵准备战斗
纽黑文：全世界充分意识到，以色列与其主要伊斯兰盟友埃及和土耳其之间的危机正在升级。联合国要对巴勒斯坦的国家身份进行投票，其前奏就已预示着可能会出现各种出乎意料的结果。
1977年初，埃及总统萨达特的行动推动了戴维营协议的签署，这很大程度上使埃及成为第 一个与以色列签署和平条约的阿拉伯国家，并且正式承认以色列存在的权利。这个决定在阿拉伯世界绝不受欢迎；果然，从1979年到1989年，埃及被暂停阿...
The Chinese Communist Party relies on tone-setting exercises, designed to build appreciation for the authoritarian system and cast doubt on democratic systems. The country’s leaders seek international praise for their handling of the pandemic and reject criticism for delayed reporting and...
Competing for greatness: With a government order, China dispatched 40,000 health care workers to Wuhan; New York’s governor called for volunteers. and more than 85,000 responded from around the US, including some from the University of California,...
