BEIJING — A video is making the rounds across China's internet. On a bus in the western city of Xi'an, an elderly man is seen shouting at a pregnant woman that she should give up her seat. "I am ...
Rather than clamp down on drug users, Colombia might borrow a page from its far southern neighbor...
-OpEd- PARIS — The gravity of the situation at the White House grows clearer each day. The anonymous article published by the New York Times in which a high-ranking official from the Trump ...
Amazon is upending the commercial status quo. And yet, as much as people like to complain about i...
BEIJING — Fan Bingbing, China's highest-paid actress and star of the 2014 blockbuster X-Men, recently received some unwanted public attention—an accusation of tax evasion. The Chinese actress was ...
Taco Bell in Mexico? McDonald's in Hamburg? Americans find the recipe abroad, bastardize it, ...
-OpEd- MADRID — Since September 2015, when the UN General Assembly launched its 2030 Agenda — a plan to reach 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within 15 years — the concepts have been ...
Africa must not be industrialized like the Asian dragons. Instead, the continent must invest in a...
NEW YORK — The New York Times published an extraordinary column this afternoon by an anonymous contributor identified as a “senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to ...
The Argentine pontiff, used to navigating politics in Buenos Aires, is battling at a whole differ...
Rising tariffs between the U.S. and China may boost trade between China and Latin American states...
-Analysis- BERLIN — World politics is currently dominated by "strongmen," those leaders who see themselves anointed to negotiate "deals" among themselves to chart the world's ...
By allying themselves commercially, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Peru have created a massive consu...
The major disgrace of America’s Catholic bishops was to foster a culture in which priests sexually assaulted children and were then sent on to new duties as their ungodly behavior was covered ...
News used to be a cherished staple for writer and conflict-resolution expert Aldo Civico. But whe...
Donald Trump's all-out trade war has a singular source of ammunition, even as China is pushin...
-Analysis- Turkey is a country with extreme social differences. If the inflation rate rises, the lira tumbles and price stickers in supermarkets are rewritten daily, which means those who ...
The do-nothing approach to migration being taken by the new Spanish government and others in Euro...
BOGOTÁ — The peace accords signed two years ago with the demobilized FARC guerillas continue to divide Colombians politically, as do questions over how the country should go about ending the ...
The U.S. president wants to impose his will and whims on all partners. The EU, for the sake of it...
It's time to overhaul the Old Continent's roads, bridges, airports and electrical systems...
The peace process he helped guide in Colombia isn't perfect. Nor is it complete. But by endin...
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