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Venezuela: Training ground for terrorists
feature Two captured members of the banned Basque militant group ETA—which has been waging a fight for independence from Spain—told Spanish authorities that they had been trained in Venezuela.
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Israel: Ariel Sharon’s ambiguous legacy
feature Ariel Sharon played a key role at every major crossroads Israel faced in his adult life.
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Middle East: Lawlessness in Sinai
feature An incident in the Sinai peninsula at the border between Israel and Egypt reveals the uneasy peace between the two countries.
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India: Mocking our rape culture
feature Instead of another strident editorial, a group of Indian comics has captured the nation’s attention with a satirical video.
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Australia: Where even the teachers can’t spell
feature Australia’s children are being taught by illiterate teachers.
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Israel: Is Abbas yielding on the right of return?
feature Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is now pretending to be Israel’s last best hope for peace.
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Israel: All bias is not equal
feature Palestinian schoolchildren are taught to view the destruction of Israel as their duty.
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Iran: Don’t question the supreme leader
feature When President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tried to fire his intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, he was overruled by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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The West inspired Africa’s violent homophobia
feature Many African countries view homosexuality as an import from the immoral West, said Thomas Hofnung in France’s Libération.
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Chile: Repulsive honors for a murderer
feature There’s a disgusting effort afoot to rehabilitate Pinochet-era torturers, said Elias Vera Alvarez at Clarín.
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Malaysia: Hiding something or just incompetent?
feature It is “painful to watch” how Malaysia has embarrassed itself before the world with its bungled response to the missing plane.
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India: After a savage rape, a nation looks inward
feature The brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman has “stirred the conscience of the nation.”
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Japan: Exporting a dangerous technology
feature Until we know all the things that went wrong with the nuclear plant at Fukushima, we have no business exporting nuclear technology, said an editorial at Shimpo Hebei Shimbun.
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Egypt: A court rules on Mubarak’s crimes
feature A judge sentenced Hosni Mubarak to life in prison.
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