Best Columns - International
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Russia: Will gays be welcome at the Olympics?
feature Gay athletes who compete in next February’s Winter Olympics could be arrested.
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Egypt: Bloodbath for the Muslim Brotherhood
feature The Egyptian army turned the Rabaa al-Adawiyah Mosque into a scene worse than the massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
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Iran: Facebook friends with Israel?
feature The entire cabinet of President Hassan Rouhani has signed up for Facebook over the past month.
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Japan: Radiation damage to a national reputation
feature Japanese authorities have botched the containment effort at Fukushima and tried to hide these failures from the world.
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Iran: A reformist roars into power
feature Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani took more than 50 percent of the vote over five conservative rivals. Will he change Iranian policy?
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Russia: The Putins call it quits
feature Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife announced they were getting an amicable, “civilized” divorce.
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Iraq: Undermining the sanctions on Iran
feature The Iraqi prime minister has become Iran’s proxy.
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Egypt: On a tortuous path toward a new government
feature Can democracy survive in Egypt?
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Canada: Is Toronto’s mayor a crackhead?
feature We have seen a cellphone video of what looks very much like Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.
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Pakistan: A democratic milestone
feature “Undeterred by the Taliban’s threat of mass killing,” voters turned out in historic numbers across the country.
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Israel: Stick to astrophysics, Hawking
feature The British physicist said he will not attend the fifth Israeli Presidential Conference because of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
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Russia: Happily hosting Edward Snowden
feature The fugitive NSA contractor has asked Russia for temporary asylum until he can work out an arrangement to get to Latin America.
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Japan: Does an economic plan mask a nationalist push?
feature Now that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ended Japan's legislative gridlock, he can push through his ambitious economic reform program.
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Did Merkel deserve Chávez’s latest insult?
feature Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has some blunt words for the world's leaders.
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