The rise of the rest makes for anxiety in the West
“The real issue might not so much be about ‘Westlessness’ (the losing of Western societal attributes) but about a particular configuration of the West that we were used to.”
Macron eyes European leadership
If the U.S. declines play a uniting role in the democratic world, more parochial, divisive visions will come to the fore.
Bowing to right-wing pressure, Netanyahu scraps African migrant relocation deal with UNHCR
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he was cancelling an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency to relocate thousands of African migrants, bowing to right-wing pressure to scrap the deal. The agency, the UNHCR, said it hoped Israel would reconsider the decision soon ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his late father, Kim Jong Il, used fraudulently obtained Brazilian passports to apply for visas to visit Western countries in the 1990s, five senior Western European security sources told Reuters. While North Korea's ruling family is known to ...
Trump doesn't embody Western values, unlike JFK and Obama: German envoy
Donald Trump doesn't embody Western values in the way that previous presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama did, according to Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to the U.S. who now heads the Munich Security Conference. "We are losing that symbol of ...
Russia can use U.S. as an excuse for only so long
The Putin regime has helped create enmity with the West because it needs enemies for its legitimacy.
China poised to pass anti-terror law this month with West-opposed cyber-provisions
China's controversial anti-terrorism law could be passed as soon as the end of this month, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday, legislation that has drawn concern in Western capitals for its cyber-provisions. The draft law, which could require technology firms to install "backdoors" in ...
Putin wants victory against IS, not detente
Putin wants to win the war against Islamic State and be acknowledged as the leader who brought about victory.
As nuclear talks enter final stretch, IAEA chief Amano gets set to fly to Tehran
The global nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday its boss would fly to Tehran to discuss one of the biggest sticking points that need to be resolved so that Iran and world powers can reach a breakthrough final nuclear deal by a new deadline of ...
Islamic State peddling looted art on eBay, Facebook for cash flow
The Whatsapp message appeared on his iPhone: photos of an ancient Mesopotamian vase worth $250,000, part of a highly valued set, is waiting to be extracted. The recipient, Amr Al Azm, replied that he was interested. How to proceed? A message from a different account ...
Iran, powers rush for nuclear deal as clock ticks toward deadline
Iran and six world powers ramped up the pace of negotiations on Tuesday ahead of a deadline for a preliminary nuclear deal that was less than 24 hours away, as both sides warned it was crucial to overcome differences that could wreck an agreement. For ...
West's first Buddhist mission was in London
Buddhists in Japan — aided by an Irishman — established the religion's first Western mission in London, according to research by a team of academics in Ireland and Japan. The recent discovery overturns the long-held assumption that the first Buddhist mission in the West was ...
