ON Tuesday, Lebanon took another step on its difficult road to recovery and stability with the release of former Lebanese Christian warlord Samir Geagea after a parliamentary amnesty Monday ended his
In response to the bombings in London, John Major, a former British prime minister, told the Guardian newspaper that those who incite hatred should be deported from England. “As far as those
The summer of heat and bombs continues unabated. The condemnations of terrorism are deafening yet meaningless. Are we to get used to the sight of the wounded being carried away from beaches, hotels,
For some weeks now, a red light has been flickering in my mind, illuminating a word in large Gothic letters: Weimar. As a 9-year-old I saw with my own eyes the collapse of the German republic
It has to be said: Senior police officers in Britain do not always talk sense. On Monday, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens wrote, as his sympathetic response to the shooting
MANILA — By calling for an overhaul of the Philippines’ failed political system, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has tried to divert attention from her worst crisis and tap into deep discontent with
