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France: Strauss-Kahn’s self-serving apology
feature Dominique Strauss-Kahn gave his first interview since New York prosecutors dropped all charges and allowed him to return to France.
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Serbia: The capture of Mladic
feature The former Bosnian Serb military leader is accused of being responsible for the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in 1995.
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Turkey: The dimming appeal of EU membership
feature Given that so many EU members regret their own membership, Turkey should rethink its goal of joining them, said Semih Idiz at Hürriyet.
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United Kingdom: Judging each other's patriotism
feature Those people who chose instead to wear a white poppy, which symbolizes pacifism and honors the civilian war dead, were vilified as near-traitors, said Joan Smith at The Independent.
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Libya: Europe divvies up the goods
feature France, Great Britain, and Italy are dividing the spoils of war, arguing among themselves while keeping a wary eye on China.
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WikiLeaks: Security breach burns American sources
feature The guerrilla whistle-blower group has lost control of its entire trove of 251,287 leaked U.S. diplomatic cables.
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United Kingdom: Good-bye to the News of the World
feature The News of the World closed down this week, amid revelations that it had hacked the phone messages of thousands of people.
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Spain: The nuclear accident the U.S. forgot
feature In January 1966, a U.S. B-52 bomber collided with a tanker as it was refueling above the Spanish village of Palomares, releasing four nuclear bombs, said Miguel Ángel Criado in Público.
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France: The burka ban comes into force
feature Many Frenchmen doubt the National Assembly's law against the covering of the face while in public will be fully enforced.
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Europe: Does the Greek crisis mean the end of the euro?
feature The euro was meant to bring Europeans together, but the bailout of Greece is driving them apart.
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NATO: Killing Qaddafi’s family
feature NATO planes bombed a Tripoli building that turned out to be the home of Qaddafi's youngest son, Saif al-Arab. The son and three of his children were killed.
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Europe: Suddenly scared of nuclear power
feature Without consulting any of her European allies, Angela Merkel ordered the closure of nearly half of Germany's nuclear power plants for three months for safety checks.
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Portugal: Lessons from one who has been there
feature “Not only will this bailout, when it is inevitably forced on you, not get you out of your current troubles, it will actually prolong your troubles for generations to come,” said an editorial in the Sunday Independent.
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Turkey: Hopes and perils of the Arab Spring
feature Can Turkey serve as an example of a modern Islamic nation to Arab countries?
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