npr — This week, we're exploring how lessons learned from U.S. intervention and non-intervention in foreign conflicts can inform policy decisions toward Syria today. Robert Siegel talks with Chester Crocker, formerly assistant secretary of state for African affairs in the Reagan administration, about how the U.S. has dealt with the decades-long conflict...
guardian.co.uk — Uhuru Kenyatta and deputy named in report that condemns his family, predecessors and state agencies over human rightsKenya's president has received a long-awaited report that names him and his deputy as being among those suspected of planning and financing the country's 2007-08 post-election violence, in which more than 1,000 people...
guardian.co.uk — Citing 'multiple' rebel commanders, the US claims Iranian troops are fighting alongside Hezbollah and Syrian government forces in the battle for QusairMatthew WeaverGuardian readers
guardian.co.uk — A UK-backed project in Western Equatoria state seeks to ensure domestic and social factors don't deny girls an educationBridget Nagomoro used to get up at five in the morning to fetch water from the stream, cook breakfast for the family, then walk the five miles to school. In the evening,...
npr — Hipsters may just be discovering the joys of backyard chickens, but in African megacities, people have been bringing their animals into the slums with them for decades. That's creating a new ecosystem of animals and huge numbers of people living closely together like never before.» E-Mail This » Add to...
guardian.co.uk — Claim against Jack Straw, brought by Gaddafi victim and his wife, may be heard in secret under new Justice and Security ActOne of the first cases to be heard by the government's new generation of secret courts may be a claim brought by a Libyan dissident who was kidnapped along...
guardian.co.uk — Ennahda's crackdown could be smarter, integrating moderates and reserving tough stuff for those who back domestic terrorCritics of Tunisia's moderate Islamist government, led by the Ennahda party, have in the past chided it for being a soft touch with followers of the ultra-conservative Salafi movement, treating them like wide-eyed, wayward...
guardian.co.uk — Amina Tyler, who faced death threats after she put photos online, may be charged for 'provocative acts' on SundayAn outspoken Tunisian feminist who scandalised the country by posting topless photos of herself online has been arrested and may be charged for conducting "provocative acts" at a religious centre where police...
globalvoicesonline — Portuguese artist Isabel Fiadeiro (@Isabelfiadeiro) lives in Nouakchott, Mauritania, where she paints and runs an art gallery. Fiadeiro also sketches from observation, filling her blog Sketching in Mauritania with images of daily life in the West African nation. Global Voices spoke to Fiadeiro about her art and how sketching has helped her...
npr — College students and recent graduates crammed the top floor of a tech hub in Nairobi for a competition built around the theme "Solutions for the Next Billion Mobile Users." Africa has more than 600 million mobile phone users (approximately 11 percent of the global total) – and the number is...
npr — Thousands of prisoners are held in detention camps throughout Eritrea, according to Amnesty International. Here's the story of one man who made it out.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
npr — Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about Zimbabwe's upcoming presidential election and efforts to alleviate its international isolation.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
guardian.co.uk — London five-year-old Chloe Johnson dies in water park of Coral Sea Waterworld hotel in Sharm el-SheikhA five-year-old girl from south London has drowned in a hotel pool at an Egyptian resort in Sharm el-Sheikh.Chloe Johnson, from Forest Hill in south London, died in a water park at the Coral Sea...
guardian.co.uk — The question behind President Goodluck Jonathan's declaration this week is not why – it is howBoko Haram, a jihadi group seeking to establish a sharia-based state in northern Nigeria, has made little secret of the fact that it regards itself not only at war with the Nigerian state, and its...
guardian.co.uk — Nelson Mandela said to be furious with daughters for trying to manipulate trusts to advance their businessesNelson Mandela was "furious" that two of his daughters went behind his back to meddle in the management of his personal wealth, his lawyer has claimed in a case that exposes ugly battles over...
guardian.co.uk — Candidate Obama promised a different kind of culture in Washington, but it's looking similar to the Bush eraYou can argue that Republicans have blocked President Obama from doing just about anything. You can argue that he's had bad luck. You can argue that he isn't always the greatest orator. But...
economist — FOR five days Iran’s interior ministry opened its doors to the people, inviting presidential hopefuls to register for the election on June 14th. The fingerprints of the candidates, most of them establishment figures, were stamped on forms, while would-be reformists stayed away. But minutes before the deadline, on May 12th,...
economist — We’re as Jewish as you WHEN is a Jew not a Jew? When he’s a Karaite. Or so says Israel’s chief rabbinate, which, after 65 years of relative harmony with an ancient Jewish sect, is reopening an old and bitter schism. In recent months, rabbis working for Israel’s ministry of religion...
economist — ON A biblical outcrop overlooking the Jezreel valley near Nazareth, Israel’s largest Arab town, a state-of-the-art complex has opened its doors to high-tech companies. “We’ll be famed for computing as well as Jesus,” quips Ramez Jaraisi, mayor of the city where Christ grew up.Stef Wertheimer, an octogenarian Israeli tycoon whose...
economist — A BLACK flag flies over the governor’s headquarters in Raqqa, a city of 250,000 people in Syria’s north-east which is the biggest so far that the rebels have captured wholesale from President Bashar Assad’s regime. It is also a base for Jabhat al-Nusra (Victory Front), an extreme armed opposition group...
npr — Egypt's capital is has been associated with protest and political upheaval. But an arts festival attempts to clear away the dust and revitalize a once-glorious cultural hub.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
guardian.co.uk — Passenger on British Airways flight on which Angolan man was being deported says he begged for help about 50 timesJimmy Mubenga, the 46-year-old man who died on a plane while being deported from the UK by private security guards, begged for help around 50 times, according to a member of...
guardian.co.uk — The UN general assembly has voted to condemn Syria but the number of abstentions suggests doubts are growing about backing the rebelsMatthew WeaverGuardian readers
npr — The White House has released 100 pages of internal emails related to the development of talking points after the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year. President Barack Obama also addressed the controversy surrounding the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups. Audie Cornish talks to Scott...
guardian.co.uk — The AP, IRS and Benghazi controversies are political sideshows. Obama's use of illegal force abroad is true concernWashington DC appears to have reached peak hysteria this week. The confluence of not one, not two, but three potential scandals involving the White House has given practically every Beltway scribe a case...