Tuesday 24 May
The two-state solution has long been accepted as the goal of any Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Even Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agrees. What appears to be less clear is in which of the two states Palest…
Why Syrian opposition forces are turning on each other, we learn about buying EU citizenship, and find out the best Halloween films with Karen Krizanovich.
Thousands of Spaniards lost their citizenship as they fled Spain’s Civil War and Franco. Now Spain is offering its descendents the right to be Spanish. Should other countries who need migrants do more to encourage the…
Canada welcomes the world this month as part of that national branding exercise called the Winter Olympics, but it is also tinkering with its multicultural self-image in one other notable way. For the first time in 15 years…
Quick quiz question. Which part of France has the highest birth rate? Paris? Bordeaux? Marseille? The answer lies further south. Some 5,000 miles further south.
Friday 13 August
Just a month after playing host to a Russian-American spy swap, Vienna’s international airport was again last week the stage for a surprising secretive manoeuvre.
Wednesday 9 December
If nothing else, the first week of the COP15 conference will be remembered as a demonstration that it is possible to get the world’s most opinionated people to agree on something – as long as the issue is climate change,…
Friday 17 December
Outside of Vatican City, Niue is the world’s least populous country, a self-governing Pacific nation with a headcount comparable to that of a large high school.
This month’s Style Leader is Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi, and our Election Watch column goes to Sierra Leone.
Thursday 29 July
At the Mexican Embassy on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, the date 29 July had been marked on calendars for months.
Wednesday 26 October
This week’s Scottish National Party conference may be remembered as the beginning of the end of the United Kingdom.
Tuesday 11 January
It seems, and possibly is, idle to ferret for ironies in the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords: it is a ghastly tragedy that has left six people dead, 14 injured, hundreds…
Tuesday 13 July
When they first began arriving in the country in 2005, Sudan’s war-weary Darfuri refugees posed a serious problem for Israeli immigration authorities.
Tuesday 9 March
The infamous minaret ban in Switzerland, the result of a nationwide vote last autumn, continues to cause international confusion and indignation.
We meet Georgia’s ambassador to Germany and take a dip at the UN swimming club in Geneva.
Fiji's dictator is this issue's style leader, Australia makes friends to handle cuts to military spending, and why new boats are part of New Zealand's defence forces' shake up.
Hungary’s foreign affairs minister discusses the challenges facing his country’s EU presidency, the importance of an increased role for central Europe and his government’s reputation for media bashing.
Estonia has a brand image as a modern hi-tech nation, but today it’s dealing with some old-fashioned troubling issues. In his private offices at Stenbock House in the capital Tallinn, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip talks to…
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