Are Japan’s ubiquitous personal seals endangered?
DUST SETTLES over the shelves in Fujio Kawasaki’s shop. Customers once sought out this corner of Tokyo for quality hanko, the…
Benny Gantz must convince Israelis that he can protect them
THE NEWS could not have come at a worse time for Benny Gantz, the main challenger to Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister. Less…
Protests are making a comeback in the Arab world
THE MANTRA of the Arab spring is back. “The people want the regime to go,” chant hundreds of thousands of protesters in Algeria,…
An ex-colonel in the Lord’s Resistance Army goes on trial in Uganda
PEOPLE STILL fear Thomas Kwoyelo in the villages around Pabbo, a town in northern Uganda where the Kilak hills smudge the horizon….
Why are Ebola clinics in Congo being attacked?
AT DUSK ON February 27th a group of young men dressed as football players were kicking a ball around a pitch besides an Ebola…
New Zealand announces a gun clampdown
NEW ZEALAND’S prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced on March 21st that her government would ban “military-style” semi-automatic…
Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan’s strongman, resigns
ONCE A STRONGMAN has been in power for 30 years, it is reasonable to assume he will leave office only in a coup or a coffin. But…
Kazakhstan’s strongman of 30 years unexpectedly resigns
ONCE A STRONGMAN has been in power for 30 years, it is reasonable to assume he will only leave office in a coup or a coffin. But…
Tropical Cyclone Idai may have killed more than 1,000 in Mozambique
Aid workers have described it as Mozambique’s worst humanitarian crisis since its 15-year civil war. Nearly a week after Tropical…