By Harvey Morris The golden rule of Israeli politics has always been to avoid any public spat with the Americans. The theory was that the electorate would punish any politician who endangered the country’s relationship with its closest and most powerful ally. Benjamin...
By Elaine Monaghan It was dark one night when Boris Yeltsin was still president of Russia, a few tumultuous years after communist rule ended. I wrapped up the closing shift at the Reuters office and drove across the Moscow River in my red, box-shaped Lada Niva. It was...
By Girish Gupta When Hugo Chávez came to power in Venezuela in 1999, U.S. Ambassador to Caracas John Maisto said the U.S. government should watch what Chávez did, not listen to what he said. Chávez’s rhetoric was indeed fiery. Seven years after coming to power, he...
By Randall Mikkelsen U.S. Republicans and Democrats have cooperated on a couple of occasions since Republicans assumed control of both houses of Congress in January. But these rare examples are unlikely to signal any breakthrough in the Washington stalemate that has...
When Jimmy Carter ran for U.S. President, he capitalized on the fact he was little-known, adopting the campaign slogan, “Jimmy Who?” When Jimmy Carter ran for President of the United States 39 years ago, he capitalized on the fact that he was a little-known former...
By Harvey Morris The destruction of ancient artifacts by militants of the Islamic State in areas under their control in northern Iraq goes beyond the ancient tradition of sectarian iconoclasm. In the religious turmoil of the Byzantine Empire, zealots destroyed images...
By Nelson Graves N-D is backed by a network of experienced journalists who have lived on all continents and covered the world’s biggest stories of the past four decades. Among them is Alan Wheatley. Alan has covered many of the biggest international economic issues...
By Jack Craver If you run in elite European circles, you’ll rarely meet anyone who seriously believes their country should leave the European Union. In EU founding nations such as France and Germany, “Euro-skepticism” has historically been relegated to the margins,...
Death and violence scarred a meeting of world leaders in Genoa, Italy in 2001, marking the height of two decades of protests against globalization. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters) By Nelson Graves Death and violence scarred a meeting of world leaders in 2001 that marked the...
By Harvey Morris It was the spring of 1991. A few weeks earlier America and its allies had ousted Saddam Hussein’s invading forces from Kuwait, providing the signal for rebellions among his oppressed Kurdish and Shia communities in Iraq. In the north, the Kurds had...