RECIFE — Caricatures can sometimes cross the line. But world leaders, who are always the center of attention, tend to get used to unflattering satirical portraits. But two former Brazilian ...
-Essay- BOGOTÁ — I always had mixed feelings about the Netflix series Narcos. The first two seasons were based on the life and times of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, and the show has just ...
Writers, artists, journalists and others fleeing oppression in Turkey are settling in the Kreuzbe...
An online show called Drugslab gives viewers a first-hand account of what it's like to take a...
Millions of British citizens don't want to give up being European.
The absence of Christian players at the professional level can be traced to discrimination that b...
BUENOS AIRES — It's been dubbed: Manspreading, the habit of too many men to sit with their legs wide open in public spaces that irritates the rest of the world around them. It is a typically male, ...
-Analysis- Educators have created well-worn “awareness” strategies to combat everything from teen pregnancy to drug abuse. But this year, some schools are taking on a new spectre hanging over ...
-Essay- BOGOTA — "Despacito," the title of this summer's hit song by Luis Fonsi, means "slowly" in Spanish. Listening to it is like drinking an unsavory broth. Slowly. It's my own silly ...
Ultima Hora — Aug. 30, 2017 ACARIGUA — The political crisis in Venezuela is threatening freedom of the press in a new way. The daily newspaper Ultima Hora ("The Last Hour") has printed its ...
NICE — You can spot an IKEA store from a mile away: The classic blue-and-yellow box design of every outlet of the Swedish home goods giant is as much a part of its identity as the quirky names of ...
What connects the violence in Barcelona and Charlottesville? Where have Western democracies gone ...
Morning She wakes early, usually at 6 a.m., and fetches the newspaper. A morning without Sudoku is not a morning worth facing. After she solves the puzzle, she takes her medication, eats two ...
BEIJING — "Goodbye," Ying told her third husband. "Oh," he responded indifferently. Through their legal, but dishonnest, marriage, Ying earned 40,000 yuan ($6,000). Her "husband" was allowed ...
Millions drive past the favela of Vila Esperança, with its rampant unemployment and open s...
In Lebanon, the country with the highest number of refugees per capita in the world, a cemetery f...
-Opinion- Two European cities, two terror attacks. In Finland, 18-year-old Moroccan Abderrahman Mechkah is suspected of stabbing two women to death and injuring eight others in the ...
Choi fled to freedom in South Korea, where he has managed to turn his frightening experiences int...
MULANJE — With her sweet smile and schoolgirl backpack, Awa Kandaya, 20, seems to be the picture of innocence. But it's just a facade. Her virginity was taken away from her at the age of nine when ...
-OpEd- BOGOTÁ — Father Jorge, dear Pope Francis, less than a month remains before your visit to Colombia. Before Sept. 6, you still have time to make your excuses and cancel. Believe me, you ...
His erotic drawings of virile men captured the homosexual zeitgeist. But in his country, where it...
It's taken a few days to accept, but Cuba's less-than-ideal WiFi situation may be a bless...
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