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Military trials threaten Egypt's democracy

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Mohannad Sabry - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - "We called for a civil state during the 'January 25 Revolution', and if we accept military trials we might as well accept the military in power for long years"

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Occupy Wall Street-style Protest in Indonesia Leads to Closure of World's Largest Gold Mine

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Kate Lamb - Oct. 18 (Special Report) - Clashes between protesting Indonesians and security forces at US-owned mine have also left four dead.

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South African rapture believers stuck with huge hotel bill

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - May. 23 (News) - Instead of going to heaven, a group of South Africans who checked into a Johannesburg hotel to await the end of the world now have a big bill to pay.

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North Africa revolts could weaken Al Shabaab - GlobalPost (blog)

Fri, 13 May 2011 11:12:35 -0700

GlobalPost - May. 13 - StarAfrica.comNorth Africa revolts could weaken Al ShabaabGlobalPost (blog)Rawlings said the uprisings in North Africa are weakening Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels. He did not name any specific countries but there have been reports that Libya's Muammar Gaddafi regime has been funding and sending weapons to Al Shabaab. ...AU Envoy: North Africa Uprisings Crippling Somalia RebelsVoice of Americaall 240 news articles »

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Brazil: Lesbian kiss delayed

Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Solana Pyne - May. 12 (News) - It’s been a big month for gay rights in Brazil. Last week the supreme court gave gay couples the same legal rights as heterosexual married couples.

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GlobalPost correspondent taken prisoner in Libya

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By News Desk - Apr. 08 (News Report) - GlobalPost correspondent James Foley, and 3 other foreign journalists, were taken by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

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Violence escalating in Ivory Coast

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Andy - Mar. 19 (News) - At least 25 killed in attacks by Gbagbo supporters on Abidjan suburb. Andrew Meldrum Violence in Ivory Coast has worsened in Abidjan, the country's biggest city. The suburb of Abobo has had two days of attacks by supporters of Laurent Gbagbo, the president who lost the November election but refuses to give up power. His followers are blamed for mortar attacks which have killed more than 25 people in Abobo on March 17 and 18. Abobo is known as a bastion of support for Alassane Ouattara, who won the poll. The United Nations expressed shock over the attacks on civilians. Gbagbo has given conflicting messages. He has called on his supporters to "neutralize" rebels, which is widely seen as an incitement to the violence that has hit Abobo. But Gbagbo has also said he is open to negotiations with Ouattara. The long-running crisis in Ivory Coast is taking a human toll and is hurthing the country's economy, which was just beginning to recover from the civil war of 2002-2005. The fallout from Ivory Coast is spreading beyond its borders as thousands of refugees flee the violence. Ivory Coast's crisis is also having a serious impact on the West African region's economy. The International Monetary Fund warns of "serious risks" from the power struggle in Ivory Coast, reports Reuters. The IMF "expressed deep concern that the ongoing political crisis in Ivory Coast poses serious risks — in particular, through trade and financial sector linkages — and that the spillovers for the region could be severe should the crisis persist," the IMF said. The fund's report on the eight-nation West African Economic and Monetary Union also cautions that rising global food and fuel prices could fuel inflation and hurt the region's poor. It is the IMF's first analysis of the economic impact from Ivory Coast's political stand-off on the rest of the region, which also includes Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo. Ivory Coast is the world's top cocoa grower. While it is still the giant of the economic zone, Ivory Coast's share of regional output has fallen from 45 percent in the 1980s to 30 percent now, after years of economic stagnation. The international community has called for Laurent Gbagbo to step down as Ivory Coast's president, declaring that he lost a Nov. 28 election to rival Alassane Ouattara. The IMF said the crisis in Ivory Coast had intensified in recent weeks with "significant negative fallout for domestic financial and economic activity." Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:13 -0400 read more

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Itamar settlement killing leads to mass arrests

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:28:00 -0700

GlobalPost - Mar. 15 - Family members mourn during the funeral for five members of the Fogel family on March 13, 2011, in Jerusalem, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/AFP/Getty Images) Israeli forces reportedly took in all men from a West Bank village for questioning Monday, as tensions b

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Nuclear expert: “50-50 chance of a catastrophic radiation” from Japan

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By David Case - Mar. 14 (Interview) - To get independent answers about the risks faced by people, GlobalPost turned to Arnold Gundersen, a 39-year veteran of the nuclear industry. Now chief engineer at Fairwinds Associates, he has worked as a nuclear plant operator and he served as an expert witness in the investigation into the Three Mile Island accident.

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Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier surprises Haiti with return

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - Jan. 16 (News) - Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, a former dictator, mysteriously returned to Haiti Sunday for the first time since he was deposed in a coup 25 years ago.

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Imitators create new WikiLeaks sites

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By David Wroe - Jan. 06 (News) - One, OpenLeaks, claims it has a better model than the original whistle-blower website.read more

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Khodorkovsy verdict lays bare Russian injustice

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Miriam Elder - Dec. 28 (News Analysis) - Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed oil tycoon turned liberal martyr, was found guilty today of a second set of charges in a trial held up as a symbol of Russia’s compromised justice system. The guilty verdict was widely expected but nonetheless provoked harsh condemnation from Russia’s marginalized opposition, international observers and Khodorkovsky’s family.

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Mobile banking: a new way of doing business in Haiti

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:08:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Ezra Fieser - Dec. 27 - Belinda Jean, 31, runs a small mobile phone-recharging business out of her tent in Port-au-Prince, Feb. 22, 2010. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) SAINT-MARC, Haiti — Adeline Alexandre does a steady business selling Haitian staples at Fifi Boutique, a l

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Saudi Arabia arrests 149 Al Qaeda militants

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Caryle Murphy - Nov. 26 (News Report) - Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested 149 alleged Al Qaeda activists organized into 19 different cells – many of them linked to Al Qaeda’s Yemen-based branch, one of the terrorist movement’s most aggressive affiliates, security officials said Friday.

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Afghanistan War: Fighting ends as winter begins

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Ben Brody - Nov. 18 (Special Report) - American troops typically serve yearlong tours in Afghanistan, so they all must learn to operate in both the heat and the cold, even if the fighting largely subsides. The largest military bases in America are in places like Texas, California and the southeast — many soldiers garrisoned there have little experience in cold-weather soldiering.

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As cholera worsens, violence breaks out in Haiti

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Ezra Fieser - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Anger over the cholera outbreak led to violent demonstrations today as protesters set fire to a police station and clashed with U.N. forces in Cap-Haitien, a city on the north coast. One protester was killed. Many Haitians blame a Nepalese U.N. contingent for causing the outbreak when sewage from their camp leaked into the Artibonite.

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In Costa Rica, it pays to go to school

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Alex Leff - Nov. 16 (Opinion) - Photo caption: Students carry national flags, as they take part of a parade to commemorate Costa Rica's independence day in San Jose, Sept. 15, 2004. (Roger Benavidez JC/Reuters) SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rica seems to have found the key to getting

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Torn between identities in Argentina

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Julia Kumari Drapkin - Nov. 11 (News) - Abel Madariaga embraces his son Francisco Madariaga Quintela, Feb. 23, 2010. Francisco's mother was kidnapped in 1977 when she was pregnant with Francisco, who spent 32 years not knowing his real identity. (Daniel Garcia/AFP/Getty Images) BUENOS AIRES,

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US Foreign Policy | Iran Sanctions | Nuclear Bomb

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Barbara E. Martinez - Nov. 07 (News) - Engagement succumbs to political imperative.read more

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Who's funding Al Shabaab's war in Somalia?

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Tristan McConnell - Nov. 05 (Investigative Report) - Somalia's Al Shabaab rebels have stepped up fighting in Mogadishu with support from international sources. Here Somali women demonstrate their support of Al Shabaab in Mogadishu.

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The election has made the US more foreign

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Michael Goldfarb - Nov. 04 (Opinion) - Post-election, the rest of the world marvels at Americans' avoidance of their problems.

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Battle for Mogadishu escalates

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Tristan McConnell - Oct. 28 (Special Report) - The fighting is the worst the city has seen in almost 20 years. Somalia's stateless chaos first began when the military regime of Mohamed Siad Barre collapsed in 1991. Since Al Shabaab carried out double suicide bombings killing 79 football fans in Kampala in July, the 7,000 mostly Ugandan peacekeepers have fought back hard.

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Government looks to muffle the clamor of Cairo's mosques

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jon Jensen - Sep. 05 (Special Report) - The sheikh’s voice, amplified through a distorted megaphone perched just outside the mosque, booms and echoes off the neighborhood’s worn buildings and throughout its narrow alleyways. It’s a bit too loud, according to the Egyptian government, especially considering that the other estimated 4,000 mosques in Cairo all perform the same adhan at slightly varying times with different voices.

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Opinion: No Mideast peace? Blame the American media

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Tom Fenton - Sep. 03 (Editorial) - The Middle East peace process has always been a fantasyland – a garden of illusions sustained by politicians and myths that by and large the American media have been too timid, too uninformed or too biased to question.

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Opinion: Books are better without pages

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Nicholas Negroponte - Sep. 02 (Opinion) - The paper book is dead. Long live the narrative. Kindle owners buy twice as many books as non-Kindle owners. Just one of the many signs that while the paper book is dead, the narrative will live on. If you are saying to yourself, “That sounds horrible. I hope books do not go away,” I ask you to consider the world’s poorest and most remote kids. The manufactured book stunts learning, especially for those children. The last thing these children should have are physical books. They are too costly, too heavy, fall out-of-date and are sharable only in some common and limited physical space. Paper books also do not do well in dampness, dirt, heat or rain. Not to mention that 320 textbooks require, on average, one tree and produce about 10,000 pounds of CO2 in manufacturing and delivery. This makes no sense. Kids in the developing world should not be sent physical books.

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