By Daisy Lawrence What’s the size of two shoe boxes and costs $60 million? California’s newest effort to combat climate change. The U.S. state is teaming up with scientists and investors to build and launch a satellite that will pinpoint sources of...
The killing of Jamal Khashoggi adds to Saudi Arabia’s grim human rights record. But don’t expect America to sacrifice arms deals. Human rights activists protest against the death of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, 9 October 2018 (AP...
I went to Myanmar on a whim, and it was the best decision I could ever have made. (All photos by Sam Graves) By Sam Graves These are photos I took during my first trip to Myanmar in June 2018. I had been teaching in Vietnam and was able to travel all over Southeast...
By Alistair Lyon The presumed murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul is an outrage that creates painful dilemmas for the United States and its longstanding but problematic allies Turkey and Saudi Arabia, as well as for Europe....
Cricket-star-turned-prime-minister Imran Khan says he wants to lift up the poor in Pakistan. But his renegade political drive faces economic headwinds. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at a campaign rally in Karachi, Pakistan, 22 July 2018 (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)...
A diplomatic spat between Saudi Arabia and Canada may seem childish. But the dispute has important implications for the West — including the United States. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (L) and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland (R) in...
Wary of Russia and Donald Trump, Europe is spending more on defence and cooperating more closely. But the effects of collaboration will take time. Helicopters fly during a military exercise of the European Defence Agency near Budapest, Hungary, 2 May 2017...
New York goes into lock-down every year for the UN General Assembly, which attracts world leaders — and sends photographers like me scrambling. UN Secretary-General António Guterres and U.S. President Donald Trump (Photo by Enrique Shore) News-Decoder...
There are more millennials in China than the entire population of the U.S. and Canada. Whatever your interest, these young Chinese will impact you. Members of the China Olympic Team at the opening ceremonies for the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, 8 August 2008 (AP...
By Deborah Charles Twenty years ago I used to talk to Aung San Suu Kyi over a spotty telephone connection to Yangon from Bangkok, or in person when I managed to get into Myanmar and she was free to accept visitors in the house that served as her prison for 15 years....