World Digest

The Guardian Ewen MacAskill Riyadh engaged in concerted effort to persuade European parliament not to pass amendment calling for EU...

The Financial Times Victor Mallet Developing countries will be invited by G20 governments to join talks aimed at stopping multinationals...

Foreign Policy Magazine CANDACE RONDEAUX Candace Rondeaux reviews Jeffrey E. Stern’s new book about a sui generis school that defies...

Al Jazeera Lijia Zhang The enemies of the state existed nowhere but in the muddled head of the ageing "Great...

Asia Times SALMAN RAFI While the Afghan war is well into its fifteenth year, its end seems to be as...

Financial Times David Gardner Iranians go to the polls on Friday to elect two parliaments: one for the people and...

Al Jazeera Osama Bin Javaid Sick and dying babies remain unchanging reality, with lack of medical care worsening effect of...

Khaleej Times A double row of fence and tangled concertina wire curves like a Frankenstein stitch across the Kashmir frontier,...

Newsweek China is "changing the operational landscape" in the South China Sea by deploying missiles and radar as part of...

Al Jazeera Daniel R DePetris Obama's Gitmo closure plan has about as much chance of succeeding as his earlier attempts...