BBC News, By Audrey Tinline Veteran Hong Kong and China expert, Jonathan Fenby, was editor of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong during the handover in 1997. He says there are many different currents flowing under the surface of the current unhappiness with life in Hong Kong. One [...]

Published on Slate.com by: Srdja Popovic is the co-founder and executive director of CANVAS, and the author of the forthcoming Blueprint for Revolution, and Tori Porell is a program officer at CANVAS.      The protest movement that has sprung to life in Hong Kong now represents the most serious challenge to [...]

Bloomberg, October 2, 2014 A Japanese group seeking to preserve pacifism in the Asian nation’s constitution and Pope Francis, who has made the fight against poverty a focus of his tenure, are among the top contenders for the Nobel Peace Prize. Other favorites include Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege, Edward Snowden, [...]

The Norwegian Nobel Committee will soon decide this year’s winner of the peace prize from a list of nominees including Edward Snowden, Jose Mujica and the International Space Station partnership. Who would you add to the list? Despite a year seemingly filled with gloom and near constant reminders of humanity’s [...]

By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Bloomberg News September 25, 2014 WASHINGTON — A group of Syrian women activists delivered a jarring message to top American officials: Syrians aren't grateful for the U.S.-led airstrikes, which they say have killed innocents and worsened the suffering. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime is terrorizing the [...]

By Bertie Ahern for theguardian.com, Monday 15 September 2014 When I heard the sad news of Ian Paisley’s death, my mind slipped back to May 2008, and to the day when I stepped down as Taoiseach. I will remember that day for many reasons, but one of the most cherished memories was that morning walking [...]