By Hafawa Rebhi The winter of 1949 was extremely cold in France. A plumber sent a letter to Le Monde newspaper denouncing “la belle vie française,” the “beautiful French life” praised by the liberal newspaper. “You criticize repeatedly,...
More than a century after the end of the U.S. Civil War, race relations remain a problem, highlighted by the killing of black men by white policemen. Martin Luther King, Jr. leading the Selma voting rights march in Montgomery, Alabama, 17 March 1965. (AP Photo) This...
Soldiers training before heading to the Somalia peacekeeping operation, 30 April 2012 (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) By Pascal Fletcher As the United Nations and African leaders try to push South Sudan’s civil war protagonists towards peace and Nigeria and its neighbors strive...
Name: Léa Surugue Birth place: Paris, France Age: 22 Occupation: Recent graduate from City University in London with a master’s in international journalism Languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese Currently reading: “Too big to fail,” by...
By Nelson Graves Today we published an article on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, one of the world’s thorniest and most important issues. The article is the fifth in our series of “decoders” that provide essential background to complicated global...