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India: It’s easier to move people than tigers
feature In fact, scientists say the best response to a tiger attack on humans is not to go after the animal, but to move the people, said an editorial at The Hindu.
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Israel: Stop paying for subversive teachings
feature The Haredim sponge off the rest of us, benefiting from huge state handouts as a reward for helping to keep the right-wing Likud party in power, said Nehemia Shtrasler at Ha’aretz.
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Russia: The beginning of the end of Putin?
feature Putin's United Russia party won the parliamentary election and will keep control of the State Duma, but it lost the two-thirds majority that allows it to change the constitution at will.
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Israel: Everyone else gets Sunday off…
feature The prime minister has finally formed a committee to study the two-day weekend, said Kobi Oz at Yedioth Ahronoth.
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Climate change: An agreement to make an agreement
feature In Durban, South Africa, participants extended the Kyoto Protocol for another five years, but negotiating a legally binding deal on reducing emissions was put off to the future.
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Indonesia: Persecuting a Muslim splinter sect
feature This year, more than two dozen regions and cities have enacted laws banning or restricting the Ahmadiyah sect, said Ati Nurbaiti at The Jakarta Post.
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East Africa: Not a lot to show for a half century
feature All three countries—Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya—are still in the lowest tier on the U.N.’s Human Development Index, which measures standards of living, said Joachim Buwembo at The East African.
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South Africa: A national hero accused of murder
feature Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic and Paralympic runner, has been arrested for the murder of his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
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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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Turkey: A mysterious attack on the U.S. Embassy
feature Who was really behind last week’s attack on the U.S. Embassy in Turkey?
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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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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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Argentina: Did the pope collude in the Dirty War?
feature Old allegations have resurfaced that Pope Francis was complicit with the right-wing military junta during 1976–83 Dirty War.
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Egypt: Approving a flawed constitution
feature The hastily written constitution all but guarantees that the Muslim Brotherhood will dominate Egypt for decades to come.
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