Binyamin Netanyahu’s obsession with the press
IN OCTOBER 2015 a journalist called Amir Tibon was asked by his editors at Walla!, a popular Israeli news website, to analyse…
Amid allegations of fraud, Congo’s high court confirms a new president
JOSEPH KABILA’S machinations to keep control of the Democratic Republic of Congo have crumbled one by one. But his last desperate…
Donald Trump says he will hold a second summit with Kim Jong Un
THE SECOND visit to the Oval Office by Kim Yong Chol (pictured, left), North Korea’s chief nuclear negotiator, was decidedly…
Mongolians are getting angry about corruption
MORE THAN 20,000 Mongolians braved bone-chilling cold on January 10th to rail against their government in Sukhbaatar square in…
South Korea’s approach to planning is starkly unsentimental
THE MOSQUE will be left standing. It is perched on top of a hill not far from Itaewon station, at the foot of Namsan, the mountain…
Australia is battling China for influence in the Pacific
AUSTRALIA HAS always been proprietorial about what Scott Morrison, the prime minister, calls its “patch”—those millions…
Motorbikes are oddly absent from Myanmar’s biggest city
LATE AT NIGHT Klo He Bin likes to don his biking jacket and take to the roads of Yangon on his Yamaha EasyRider. The other 15…
Macky Sall, Senegal’s president, will probably win a second term
print-edition icon Print edition | Middle East and Africa Jan 17th 2019 | DAKAR SEVERAL TIMES a week, police block off Dakar’s…
Thousands of Gulf Arabs are abandoning their homeland
CANADA LIES far north of her intended destination, but Rahaf Muhammad is happy to be enduring its harsh winter. The 18-year-old…