World Digest

Washington Post Greg Miller | Julie Tate Osama bin Laden spent his final years engaged in a futile struggle to prevent...

The Guardian Editorial There are more and more refugees at Europe’s gates, but teargas and barbed wire are not the...

Foreign Policy Magazine TAISU ZHANG For most Chinese, the 1990s were a period of intense material pragmatism. Economic development was...

Washington Post Tim Craig At this stage of his career, Ahmad Jawad would like to be selling the terraced estates...

Al Jazeera Hamid Dabashi Not just the hardliners but the reformists, too, have lost in these elections except they do...

New York Times GEETA ANAND A flash fire sent the star-studded audience at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India”...

The Guardian Paul Stevens The crash in crude oil prices has huge implications for geopolitics, climate change and even our pensions...

Asia Times SERGEI BLAGOV The Arctic’s fast disappearing ice due to global warming may soon make it possible for cargo...

Khaleej Times Sanjaya Baru Imagine if Indian finance minister Arun Jaitley's budget speech of February 2016 had been read out...

Washington Post Anthony Faiola In a cold drizzle, Aziza Hussein, a 30-year-old Syrian widow traveling with her four children, stood...