Year: 2013

Turning inward

Source: The Economist: BRITAIN IN 2003: the country hugs America tight as both prepare to go to war in Iraq. Though many of its continental neighbours disapprove of that adventure, Britain is nonetheless close to “the heart of Europe”, in the confident phrase of its internationalist prime minister, Tony Blair. […]

Bee sting

Source: The Economist THE swaggering leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP or, loosely, the Pakistani Taliban) Hakimullah Mehsud, met a violent end at his lavish home in Pakistan’s remote northern tribal areas on November 1st. Just like his predecessor and clansman, Baitullah Mehsud, he died in a missile strike from an […]

Typhoon Haiyan: In hard-hit Tacloban, children ripped from arms

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=world/2013/11/10/pkg-stevens-philippines-typhoon-tacloban-city.cnn&contentId=world/2013/11/10/pkg-stevens-philippines-typhoon-tacloban-city.cnn By Andrew Stevens and Paula Hancocks, CNN updated 12:16 AM EST, Sun November 10, 2013  Tacloban, Philippines (CNN) — No building in this coastal city of 200,000 residents appears to have escaped damage […]