Nelson Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid leader who spent 27 years in prison for sabotage, but eventually rose to become the nation’s first black president, passed away today at the age of 95. He had been hospitalized for several weeks with a lung infection....
The United States greeted China’s new claim to an expanded no-fly zone in the East China Sea by flying two B-52 bombers through the area. Though the U.S. claimed the flights were part of routine training and had nothing to do with recent Chinese declarations, it...
It’s been 12 years since the first al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners of the post-911 Afghanistan conflict were taken to prison cells in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Denied access to the American legal system by Congress, the nebulous 2001 law that allowed for indefinite...
Following a four-day meeting of party leaders, China’s ruling Communist Party appears set to make changes to an enduring policy that limits most families to a single child, as well as do away with a “guilty because we said so” labor camp system that holds more than...
England’s Prince Charles turns 65 on Thursday and has begun filling out paperwork to claim his public pension. The idea may seem strange, since he’s been patiently waiting since the age of three to assume the throne, a stretch of time that now qualifies as the longest...
