-Analysis- MUNICH — At first glance, the video footage looks like a harmless Advent promotional clip. It showed cheerful people walking between decorated stalls, tinsels, Christmas trees, Santa ...
WASHINGTON — My first encounter with China was, oddly, at the top of the Empire State Building. I was a young student, and climbing to the top of the Manhattan landmark was the last thing I did ...
Far-right and far-left from around the world voice support for the popular uprising in France.
Google tried and failed to play the social media game. But that's not necessarily a bad thing...
The referenda that rejected marriage equality in Taiwan last month was not only a huge blow to the country’s LGBT community, but also a political setback to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party ...
The "yellow vest" uprising is about more than Macron's ill-conceived fuel tax. It's sympt...
Strict integration protocols can have the opposite effect on asylum seekers, compounding their se...
-Editorial- PARIS — The violence committed in Paris and other French cities on Saturday is, in every meaning of the word, unspeakable. The destruction, pillaging and assault against those ...
Rowdy fans added to the annals of soccer stupidity by forcing organizers to cancel the hugely ant...
Europe’s aggressive migration policy has seen Italy dive into the obscure world of national...
PARIS — Human migration is the story of our times. Victims of conflict and climate change, pushed by poverty at home and pulled toward opportunity abroad, people on the move are both a catalyst ...
WASHINGTON — I loved Amazon when it first appeared. It was the 1990s, and I was living in Italy and then China, two countries that are strongly monolingual with a scarce number of foreign-language ...
People in Colombia seem to have forgotten that in the not-too-distant past, they were the ones se...
After being left behind in the Internet revolution, places like France, Malta and Switzerland are...
MUMBAI — They say that human memory tends to shut out trauma. But the pain caused by the attack 10 years ago on Mumbai will always be difficult to forget. What happened on November 26, 2008 was an ...
A path through Lebanon, Brazil and France, the former top Michelin manager may have met the end o...
-OpEd- PARIS — While Brexit uncertainty continues with “last-chance summit” after “last-chance summit,” the hard questions are becoming more difficult to avoid with each passing day. Are we ...
-OpEd- BERLIN — Thousands of students marched through Tehran last weekend, and state television broadcast the protest march live. The crowd burned U.S. flags and pictures of President Donald ...
-Analysis- PARIS — And then, Brazil. The list of countries that are switching to so-called “strongman” regimes keeps growing. Vladimir Putin's Russia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey, Narendra ...
The Brazilian president-elect's plans for his first foreign trips offer just one clue to neig...
America's midterm elections saw Democrats recapture the House, but lose ground in the Senate....
-OpEd- CAIRO — Following last Friday’s attack on two buses and a microbus in Egypt’s Minya governorate, killing at least seven Coptic Christians and injuring 16 others, both domestic and ...
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