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Must-Reads from Around the World: February 13, 2012
Primary Victory - Henrique Capriles Radonski is one step closer to potentially ending Hugo Chavez’s 13 year rule in Venezuela. In a landmark primary, Capriles beat out six other opposition candidates...
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Europe’s Deadly Cold Spell: A Slight Thaw, But Winter Misery Continues
The western edge of Europe looked set on Monday to get some relief from the extreme cold spell that has frozen the continent and left over 500 people dead over the past two weeks. But as temperatures...
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U.S. Agency in Daze After Fukushima Disaster, Transcripts Show
Transcripts released this week by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) reveal an atmosphere of confusion in the U.S. agency in the first days after the nuclear disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi...
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Fukushima Report: Japan Urged Calm While It Mulled Tokyo Evacuation
Systemic inattentiveness. Distrust and meddling. Confusion and friction. These turns of phrase would be bad news on anyone’s job review. But when the job that’s under review is how a government handled...
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Must-Reads from Around the World: March 5th, 2012
President Putin — Unsurprisingly, Vladimir Putin won a third term as Russia’s president Sunday. In an op-ed following the election, Russian language opposition newspaper Kommersant urges those...
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Japan: A Year After the Tsunami, A Coastal Town Comes Together
Driving into Minamisanriku, it’s hard not to feel a little discouraged. A cold drizzle falls over what used to be a thriving, picturesque fishing village but is now a barren swatch of gray cement...
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A Year After Evacuating, Residents Long to Return to Homes Near Fukushima Plant
Chitose Nakano pulls two tall cans of Asahi Dry and a 7-Eleven roll cake out of a plastic shopping bag, and sets them on the white cloth. A cacophony of shutters clicks as the 36-year-old, fully clad...
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Diplomacy and Disaster: U.S. Ambassador to Japan Looks Back on 3/11
After a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan’s northeast coast on March 11, 2011, offers of aid poured in from around the world. In a few months, Japan went from being one of the international...
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Must-Reads from Around the World: March 20, 2012
More Syria Leaks – Al Jazeera reveals details from confidential Syrian intelligence and security documents handed over by one of the government’s most trusted officials who recently fled to Turkey. The...
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Japan’s Cooperation Pays Off with Exemption from U.S. Sanctions
Tokyo’s close ties with the U.S. paid off this week when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Japan will be one of 11 nations exempt from sanctions on countries that buy oil from Iran. Aimed at...
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Indian Ocean Earthquake: Asia Heeds Lessons of the Past as Tsunami Watch Is...
The most dangerous thing that can happen in the eerie vacuum between an earthquake and a tsunami is nothing. Once a tsunami warning is issued, the size of the wave and the number of minutes before it...
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Must-Reads from Around the World, July 4, 2012
Digital Protest – The Washington Post analyzes the chance of success of the emerging student movement contesting the results of the Mexican presidential election. Dubbed “#YoSoy132,” after a viral...
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Report: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Was Man-Made
An independent parliamentary committee issued a report on Thursday on last year’s crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, concluding that the disaster was “man-made” and the result of...
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Must-Reads from Around the World, July 10, 2012
South China Sea – The BBC reports the Association of South East Asia Nations (Asean) has adopted ”key elements” of a code of conduct for resolving disputes in the South China Sea, China’s state-run...
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Manila Floods, Displacing Tens of Thousands
Torrential rains following Typhoon Saola have flooded the Philippine capital, displacing up to 20,000 residents and raising last week’s death toll to 51, according to the Associated Press. As...
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Must-Reads from Around the World, August 9, 2012
Groundhog Days – Pakistan’s Dawn ridicules the never-ending power struggle between the supreme court and the president. The court has once again ordered a prime minister — this time Raja Pervez Ashraf...
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Twin Earthquakes Shake Iran, Killing More Than 300
Two earthquakes struck northwest Iran on Aug. 11, killing an estimated 300, according to local media reports. Villagers and soldiers banded together to search for survivors, reportedly saving some 200...
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Deadly Quake Rattles Southwest China
Two earthquakes hit the border of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in southwestern China on Sept. 7, 2012, killing at least 89 people and injuring some 820 others. More than 200,000 are believed to have...
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More Pain in Sichuan: Earthquake Kills at Least 188
Nearly two days after a magnitude 7.0-earthquake struck China’s Sichuan province, residents are still awaiting rescue as well as essentials like drinking water, food, medicine and tents. The epicenter...
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