International

Departure of a South Asian

Indian journalist and activist Praful Bidwai will be missed

Beena Sarwar

It’s governance, stupid

Lee Kuan Yew’s main legacy is to prove that leadership is an important ingredient for prosperity

Pradumna B Rana, Chia-yi Lee

Mitigating disaster

A global warming mitigation plan has reduced the chance of landslides in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa.

Thelma Mejia

Schnitzel or Asado?

World cup finalists benefit from new recipe for success

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The battle of single mothers

The village of Valipunam, 322 km north of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, occupies one of the remotest corners of the country’s former war zone.…

Amantha Perera

World Cup ads that make you sick

FIFA has a responsibility to ensure that the tournament’s viewers are not receiving a message that could make them sick.

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The beautiful mirage

It is unreasonable to expect a World Cup by itself to guarantee political and social change

Marcela Mora y Araujo

The best World Cup ever? It looks like so

As the ball is rolling across the country, the world’s biggest sporting spectacle is turning into the best World Cup ever.

Shobhan Saxena

In goal we trust

When the biggest football show comes home, there is excitement.

Shobhan Saxena

When football comes home

Excitement. Hope. Protests. Hype. It’s all happening in Brazil as the world’s top 32 teams arrive for the FIFA World Cup

Shobhan Saxena

Rwanda's rebirth

KIGALI – Twenty years ago this week, the genocide against Rwanda’s Tutsis, the most brutally efficient killing spree in history, began. As the…

Louise Mushikiwabo

Putin the Great

The European Union may have found the new narrative and momentum that it has sought since the fall of the Berlin Wall

Dominique Moisi

Water, water, everywhere

Let’s now green our desert areas

Hazel Henderson

Can Ukraine Be Saved?

Any hope for an end to the country’s deepening civil disorder appears to be fading fast.

Yevhen Bystrytsky

No boomlet babies in the east

China’s one-child policy lifted living standards, but set a hard-to-reverse trend of demographic decline

Joseph Chamie

The Path to Altruism

As mankind now tries to solve new, global challenges, we must also find new ways to cooperate. The basis for this cooperation must be altruism.

Matthieu Ricard

The internet’s rescue act

Skype, YouTube, and WordPress connect and preserve language diversity around the world

Mark Turin

In the eyes of the beholder

Snippets from the foreign press on Nepal’s 19 November elections

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Old, but handy

Deposit schemes could help promote recycling of used mobile devices

Matthies Weitzal and Christine Merk

Strangers in a strange land

ALL ON BOARD: Bangladeshi migrant workers flock near the Tunisian gate at the Libyan and Tunisian border after fleeing the civil war in Libya in…

Peter Sutherland

The new fascism

A strong state, able and willing, unleashes unlimited surveillance on its own people

Johan Galtung

Tinker, Tailor, Snowden, Spy?

A worldwide media frenzy has turned the plight of the rogue American intelligence analyst Edward Snowden into something resembling a John le…

Lilia Shevtsova

Thimphu gets the message

Bhutan’s incumbent rulers forgot that he who pays the piper calls the tune

Rahul Gomez

Bosphorus blues

More than a clash between democracy and autocracy, the anti-government demonstrations in Turkey points towards a class conflict

Ian Buruma

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