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Working with secularists is crucial not only for stability in Egypt, but also for the entire region, writes David Hearst.
Five years is not such a long time for the armies that eyeball each other along the demilitarised zone cutting the Korean peninsula in half. Their guns have been on a hair…
Since Russia enshrined freedom of speech as a constitutional right in 1993, a total of 152 journalists have been murdered there. A database set up in June by two media monitoring…
An embattled Jacques Chirac this week appeared live on television in an attempt to swing reluctant France around to a yes vote in the country’s referendum for the European…
There is a fault line running through Ukraine that is a product of its history and people. To talk about the history of Ukraine as simply one of Russian occupation is to…
It takes a lot for the French to lose patience with their ageing stars, and Brigitte Bardot, now an unabashed fan of the far-right National Front leader, Jean-Marie le Pen, was…
THE streets of Paris, famously constructed for armies, faced two of them on May Day. One – that of the well- disciplined troops of the far-right leader Jean-Marie le Pen – they…