World View: North Korea Sends a Message with a Medium Range Ballistic Missile Test
Contents: North Korea launches medium-range ballistic missile; North Korean missile launch sends a message to everyone
Contents: North Korea launches medium-range ballistic missile; North Korean missile launch sends a message to everyone
Contents: China forum launches the decades-long ‘One Belt One Road’ project; Laborers on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) shot dead on Saturday
Contents: MSF: Central American refugees entering Mexico are regularly beaten and tortured; Canada receives record numbers of Mexican asylum seekers after Trudeau’s welcome tweet
Contents: Obamacare continues total meltdown as Aetna pulls out completely; Britain’s NHS patients wait for months just to get bowel cancer tests; Criminal Veterans Administration director has firing overturned
Contents: US will ‘quickly’ arm Kurdish militias in Syria, despite Turkey’s opposition; Turkish officials furious at plans to arm the Kurds
Contents: Trump considers new troop surge and strategy change in Afghanistan war; Generational analysis: Afghanistan war versus Iraq war
Contents: Russia, Iran and Turkey announce farcical new Syria peace plan; Syria refuses to permit foreign monitors
Contents: Ancient tensions flare between China and North Korea; China’s relations deteriorate with both South and North Korea
Contents: European officials worry that Macedonia’s chaos could destabilize the Balkans; Macedonia comments reveal acrimonious divisions in the Western Balkans
Contents: Italy prepares for possible Mediterranean refugee crisis this summer; Europeans blame China and ‘the freeway effect’ for the migrant crisis
Contents: Donald Trump and Mahmoud Abbas commit to work for historic Mideast peace deal; Donald Trump and Mahmoud Abbas try again, channeling Sisyphus
Contents: Kurdish forces in Syria take Tabqa city en route to Raqqa; US military moves to protect Syrian Kurds from Turkey’s military
Contents: Japan’s largest warship, the JS Izumo, will escort and defend a US supply ship; Japan moves from ‘self-defense’ to ‘collective self-defense’
Contents: France’s presidential election in doubt because of abstainers; France’s Eurosceptic Marine Le Pen starts to backtrack on euro policy
Contents: European Union lays out demands for Britain over Brexit negotiations; Sharp disagreements ahead over the 60 billion euro Brexit ‘divorce settlement’; Corrections to yesterday’s article on Macedonia
Contents: Protesters storm Macedonia’s parliament fearing calls for ‘Greater Albania’; Brief generational history of Macedonia; Heidelberg Conflict Barometer
Contents: Israel’s warplanes strike weapons depot inside Syria near Damascus; Israeli analyst: A new war with Hezbollah might involve all of Lebanon
Contents: Philippines President Duterte seeks to appease China at ASEAN meeting; The phrase ‘Code of Conduct’ is the new code word for appeasement
Contents: Turkey’s warplanes strike Kurdish militias fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq; PKK conducts new terror attack in southeastern Turkey; US State Dept. says that it’s ‘deeply concerned’ about the Turkish airstrikes
Contents: In Pakistan, you may murder anyone with impunity by accusing him of blasphemy first; Even Pakistan is shocked by three blasphemy murders in 11 days
Contents: Kenya’s herders attack well-known conservationist, stoking tribal tensions; Battle between Kenya’s farmers and herders morphs into tribal conflict
Contents: Scientists worldwide hold an international March for Money on ‘Earth Day’; Climate change — a self-correcting problem; Climate change predictions; Rural America and Working Class America
Contents: Kashmiri students at two Indian colleges harassed and beaten; Indians seek solutions and blame intervention from China
Contents: Cameroon’s president finally caves in, restores internet to English speakers; With violence in Venezuela’s streets continuing, Maduro confiscates GM factories
Contents: EU officials increasingly fear a Marine Le Pen upset victory in France’s elections; Marine Le Pen fights accusations of anti-Semitism; The threat to the ‘European project’
Contents: UN says lengthy Mosul operation leading to major humanitarian disaster; ISIS using both mustard gas and chlorine gas attacks in Mosul; Iraq says that ISIS and al-Qaeda are in talks to join forces
Contents: Video of Kashmir man tied to jeep further inflames anti-India violence; Signs grow in media that Indians are beginning worry about Kashmir
Contents: Sharply divided Turkey approves referendum giving Erdogan near-dictatorial powers; Turkey’s referendum results will be closely scrutinized by Europe
Contents: Deadly explosion in Syria targets buses carrying 5,000 al-Assad supporters; Evidence of Bashar al-Assad’s war crimes and atrocities continues to grow
Contents: US sends dozens of troops to Somalia, first time since Black Hawk Down; Somalia’s civil war and the Black Hawk Down incident
Contents: North Korea’s neighbors tense as the ‘Day of the Sun’ approaches on Saturday; Japan’s Shinzo Abe: N. Korea may be able to attack Japan with Sarin gas missile; China’s tripwires for invading North Korea
Contents: Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defies Supreme Leader and runs for president; Ahmadinejad waits for the appearance of the Mahdi
Contents: Migrant camp in northern France housing 1,600 people burnt to the ground; The Le Touquet treaty, which moves Britain’s border into France, will be reconsidered
Contents: India forced to delay Kashmir elections after large surge in violence; Hindu activists push for ban on cow slaughter across India; Why is a US carrier group strike force going to the Korean peninsula?
Contents: Egypt in 3-month state of emergency after Coptic church bombings; US aircraft carrier strike force heads for Korean peninsula; South Korean anxiety over North Korea and anger at China grow over THAAD deployment
Contents: Russia’s policies thrown into confusion as US resumes its ‘world policeman’ role; President Trump reinstates the ‘Truman Doctrine’; Shock and euphoria follow the missile strike on Syria
Contents: Japan to repopulate 148 remote islands, as confrontation with China looms; Taiwan and Japan try to settle their disputes peacefully
Contents: President Trump orders missile strikes on Bashar al-Assad’s Syria; Philippines president Duterte orders military to occupy South China Sea islands; Philippines sends warship to Benham Rise to protect from China
Contents: President Trump plans military action on Syria after horrific nerve gas attack on civilians; President Trump declares that he’s changed his mind about military action; Marco Rubio says Trump’s policy emboldened Bashar al-Assad; John McCain and Lindsey Graham advocate cruise missiles and safe areas
Contents: Venezuela’s Socialist government in political crisis as street violence grows; Organization of American States (OAS) approves scathing condemnation of Venezuela; NY Times blames Venezuela’s chaos on ‘populism’ not Socialism