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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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Egypt: Why are Coptic Christians under attack?
feature A suicide bomber struck a midnight service at a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria over New Year’s, killing 23 people and wounding scores of others.
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Egypt: Have Islamists hijacked the revolution?
feature The latest Al-Jazeera poll shows that nearly 50 percent of Egyptians support the Muslim Brotherhood, while another 27 percent support the Saudi-backed Salafists.
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Why we only need one political party; How lawlessness breeds more lawlessness
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Russia: When oligarchs admit to their crimes
feature The confessions of Berezovsky and Abramovich are motivated not by remorse but rather by greed, said Stanislav Belkovsky at Moskovsky Komsomolets.
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Iran: Dutch woman becomes Iran’s latest victim
feature The mullahs have been carrying on a “30 Years War” against women: Bahrami is the latest victim, said Mina Saadadi in De Volkskrant.
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Nuclear deal: Iran celebrates while Israel grumbles
feature Is the deal with Iran a good one?
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Canada: A slogan not worth the money
feature In the middle of a global recession, Calgary, Alberta, wants to spend $1 million to “rebrand” itself, said Michael Platt in The Calgary Sun.
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Brazil: Can Rio clean up in time for the Olympics?
feature Brazil will be the first South American country ever to host the Olympic Games, but corruption marred the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio and the city is one of the most violent in the world.
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Israel: Is it time to attack Iran?
feature There is talk, once again, of a military strike on Iran's nuclear weapons programs.
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Canada: Coulter tests the limits of free speech
feature Demonstrations outside a lecture hall at the University of Ottawa forced the cancellation of a speech by Ann Coulter.
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Australia: It takes two to reconcile
feature To move beyond Australia’s colonialist past, we Aborigines must forgive.
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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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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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