UN inquiry hears harrowing reports on N. Korean prison camps
Will isolated state face Hague indictment? Probe on crimes against humanity includes look at women and at starvation as a weapon.
Will isolated state face Hague indictment? Probe on crimes against humanity includes look at women and at starvation as a weapon.
Former Sen. Russ Feingold, now State Department envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes region, spoke candidly to reporters after Congolese Tutsi rebel group M23 laid down arms this week.
A top Anglican bishop says that church edifices, orphanages, homes of priests, and missions are being eyed by a renegade clergy-friend of Zimbabwe’s president.
A court in Hunan said Tang Hui’s ‘personal freedoms’ were violated when she was sent to prison for ‘reeducation through labor.’ She had spoken out against local officials.
US Joint Chiefs of Staff Dempsey is in China looking for help on North Korea. Though Beijing indicated it was ‘working on’ it, there are a number of reasons why China might be reluctant to push the North too hard.
A member of the South Korean National Assembly called for US tactical nuclear weapons on the peninsula. He also suggested that Seoul consider developing its own deterrent.
The secluded state has been ramping up its rhetoric in recent weeks in response to new UN sanctions and joint military drills by the US and South Korea.
‘Re-education through labor’ has long allowed China to control dissent while circumventing the legal system.
A day after French President Hollande made his case for new taxes, the public responded angrily to a report that its richest man, Bernard Arnault, was trying to avoid taxes by heading to Belgium.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who spearheaded air strikes in Libya, wants ‘rapid’ foreign intervention in Syria. Critics say the two conflicts are not remotely comparable.
Ugly eurozone-crisis dynamics threaten to make it a summer of social unrest. But Spain’s Euro2012 win and Germany’s agreement on a European rescue fund have shifted the tone.
As Europe’s leaders meet in Brussels today, Germany is pushing hard for long-term reform. But Italy PM Monti says Europe faces disaster if high borrowing costs aren’t addressed quickly.
French intellectual Stéphane Hessel, a former Nazi resistance figure, will meet Aung Sun Suu Kyi tomorrow as she concludes a tour of Europe. He talks to the Monitor about what this means to him.
A larger showdown over whether ailing Greece can actually stay in the eurozone is taking shape between Germany and Greece.
The French Socialists and President François Hollande won a resounding victory in the final round of parliamentary elections Sunday night.
Most parliamentary seats still need to be won in a June 17 runoff, but leftist parties enter those contests with the overall best showing, taking 46 percent of French voters.
The famed Rupert Murdoch tabloid scandal-mills are grinding yet again.
A German chancellor stumping for a standing French president is not something the French have seen before.
EU leaders have agreed to and acted on austerity measures, slashing spending even as four governments fell, unemployment rates rose, and the EU distributed bailout funds.
A leading Syrian opposition figure says that as rebels become increasingly militarized, it is critical that disparate armed groups be integrated with the political opposition so that they are working in concert.
By Robert Marquand
Jan. 21, 2014