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The world arrives in the 'city of bridges'

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:50:31 -0700

GlobalPost - Sep. 21 - G20 leaders look to cross troubled waters of the global economy.read more

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South America in an arms race?

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Nadja Drost - Sep. 20 (News Report) - Concerns over a possible arms race on the South American continent have turned the spotlight on who’s buying what and why. Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia in particular appear determined to prove they won't be pushed around by their neighbors and are vigorously defending their military buildup. There is no question that South America is on arms spree, with major purchases by Venezuela and Brazil stoking fears over the possible consequences of flaring regional tensions on an increasingly militarized continent.

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Kennedy's death: Ireland mourns a "true friend"

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Conor O'Clery - Aug. 26 (News) - DUBLIN — Nowhere outside the United States is the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy being mourned as much as in Ireland, the country from where his ancestors emigrated during the potato famine of the 19th century and to which he helped bring peace in recent years.

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Clashes, then calm, as Afghans vote

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jean MacKenzie - Aug. 21 (News Report) - Election day in Afghanistan began with a bang. Several of them, actually. Multiple IED explosions in Kabul caused little damage, but made the point that this time, the opposition was not making idle threats when they vowed to disrupt the

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Foreign aid flowing to Taliban

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jean MacKenzie - Aug. 16 (Special Report) - It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is the foreign assistance coming into the country. Virtually every major project includes a healthy cut for the insurgents. Call it protection money, call it extortion, or, as the Taliban themselves prefer to term it, “spoils of war,” the fact remains that international donors, primarily the United States, are to a large extent financing their own enemy.

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Web crackdowns spread

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By David L. Stern - Jul. 21 (News Report) - With less than six months until it takes over the chairmanship of one of Europe’s flagship human rights organizations, Kazakhstan has thumbed its nose to Western governments and introduced a draconian internet law.

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Life on Planet Uighur

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Kathleen E. McLaughlin - Jul. 15 (News Report) - At the heart of a deadly June toy factory clash that sparked mass protests and killings 2,000 miles away in China’s far west lies a government policy that sends thousands of young Muslim Uighurs to fill labor gaps in the southeast.

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Daily Show Iran | Colbert Report Iraq

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Thomas Mucha - Jul. 02 (News Analysis) - It’s been a fascinating few weeks for global news — the real kind, of course — but also for the fake stuff. I’m referring to "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," which sent correspondents and producers to locales where comedy shows don't normally operate: Iran and Iraq. Along the way, these two Comedy Central commercial properties cooked up plenty of laughs. But they also produced some insightful — and certainly entertaining — coverage of these two complex and important global stories.

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How to run a protest without Twitter

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - Jun. 20 (Special Report) - we talked to past protest leaders to find out how they toppled governments and grabbed the world's attention before there were mobile phones or an Internet.

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Snapshots from Tehran's Revolution Square

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Iason Athanasiadis - Jun. 16 (News Report) - It was the largest non-regime organized demonstration in the 30-year history of Iran's Islamic Republic. And for once, the ruling order had not a jot of influence in organizing it.

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Roll up ... the Iranian election is about to begin

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Cameron Abadi - Jun. 10 (News Report) - Iranians imagined that this year’s presidential campaign would be hard fought, but no one quite expected what it has become: a spark for uncontrolled street revelry; a platform for hostile name-calling between ill-tempered candidates; and an opportunity to hold a referendum on the achievements of the 1979 revolution.

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Iran Listens as Obama Speaks

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Cameron Abadi - Jun. 06 (Special Report) - The U.S. president's speech clashed with a day of mourning for the late Ayatollah Khomeini. But many Iranians found a way to listen.

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Egyptians set the stage for Obama address

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Theodore May - Jun. 02 (Special Report) - Obama has decided to fly into the region at a time of deep crisis. Gaza lies in ruins, the Pakistani government remains unstable, Hezbollah appears set to win elections in Lebanon and Iran continues to rattle the saber. Terrorist threats abound and Obama is banking on the fact that words still count.

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Winning the hearts and minds of Pakistan’s displaced

Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Samina Ahmed - May. 27 (Opinion) - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Winning hearts and minds is decisive in any counter-insurgency operation. As hundreds of thousands of displaced persons flee fighting in Swat, Buner and Dir districts in Pakistan, this single truth should drive the response by the Pakistani state and the international community. In short, how those people are treated will decide if the insurgency-hit zones are saved or lost to the Taliban.

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Political storm in Britain, as speaker resigns

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Michael Goldfrab - May. 20 (Breaking News) - LONDON — The scandal of British members of Parliament fiddling with their expenses started almost two weeks ago as a joke, but has become more serious by the day. This afternoon, it claimed its first high-profile victim as the speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, resigned.

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Hope for Pakistan's child workers

Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Sarah Stuteville - May. 13 (News Report) - A Karachi-based group bent on eradicating child labor is offering school lessons outside their working hours.

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News of Pakistan's doom greatly exaggerated

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Shahan Mufti - May. 06 (Opinion) - ... how would the Taliban go from being a rag-tag guerrilla army in the mountains to rulers of the second largest Muslim country in the world? It’s a fantastically tall order.

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Bad times return to Karachi

Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Sarah Stuteville - May. 06 (News Report) - Despite Karachi’s decades-old reputation as Pakistan’s most violent city, over the last year this urban economic hub has remained a haven from the bombings and violence reverberating through the rest of the country. But a flaring of ethnic clashes in recent weeks, exacerbated by a the arrival of thousands of refugees from the violence in northern Pakistan, has many worried that instability has returned to the streets of this massive port city on the shores of the Arabian Sea.

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Meet India's first porn star

Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jason Overdorf - May. 04 (News Report) - NEW DELHI — Thanks to an anonymous group of computer geeks, India's first international Internet porn star is fast becoming this conservative country's answer to Wonder Woman — and Monica Lewinsky. But here's the trick: The steamy web seductress is a cartoon. Though pornography is illegal in India, Savita Bhabhi's sexual misadventures, published on savitabhabhi.com with scripts based on fantasies submitted by fans, have attracted a huge following.

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The ground truth from Mosul

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jane Arraf - Apr. 04 (Special Report) - Gen. Raymond Odierno walks through this neighborhood recently cleared of insurgents in Iraq’s most volatile city, stopping into a grocery store so new that dust hasn’t even accumulated yet on the metal racks of Turkish cookies and potato chips.

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Exclusive: Former Taliban See Opening For Talks

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jean MacKenzie - Mar. 24 (News Report) - KABUL — Talking to the Taliban is all the rage. Whether for or against, upbeat or down, everyone seems to be weighing in on the wisdom or folly of negotiating with the black-turbaned crowd. President Barack Obama has even suggested that his administration may reach out to moderate elements of the Taliban. GlobalPost has gained unique access here in Kabul to two former high-ranking officials of the now-deposed Taliban government to hear their view of the possibility of an opening for dialogue.

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NATO and Russia perform an intricate dance

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Teri Schultz - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - Perhaps nothing has evoked modern-day threats of a “new Cold War” like the testy relations between Moscow and NATO, the alliance set up in 1949 to counter threats from the Soviet Union and, after 1955, its Warsaw Pact satellites.

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A World of Trouble

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - Mar. 16 (Special Report) - A more troubling chapter of the rapidly deteriorating global economic crisis is playing out quietly in dark corners — and crowded fast food joints — across Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and beyond.

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Thailand: The war you've never heard of

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Patrick Winn - Mar. 13 (Special Report) - Each week in Thailand’s deep south, new blood is spilled in the name of a forgotten Muslim sultanate. This guerilla war seems worlds away from Bangkok and Thailand’s neon-soaked coastal playgrounds. But it has ground Thailand’s military to a halt.

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North Korea cranks up the rhetoric

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jiyeon Lee - Mar. 12 (News Analysis) - “Noisy” is a good word to describe the Korean peninsula this week, as Pyongyang continued to cook up new ways to bother its longtime enemy to the south.

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