On 22 January, Israelis will elect their Parliament in early legislative elections. Opinion polls favour Benjamin Netanyahu. The head of the government for four years is running again for election amidst a climate of regional t...
By signing the Elysée Treaty on 22 January 1963, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer set the seal on cooperative bilateral relations between France and Germany.
Every book read equals four days less behind bars. In Brazil, prisoners can reduce their prison sentences if they read. An original method that provides inmates both a door to the outside world and intellectual freedom.
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Four years after the tainted milk scandal that caused the death of six infants and poisoned hundreds of thousands of children, the trust that Chinese people place in their food has taken a serious beating.
On the night of 16 December, Jyoti Singh, a 23-year old medical student and a friend were returning home from a cinema in South Delhi. When they boarded the bus that stopped for them, little did they know they had just stepped ...
In North East Burkina Faso, near Dori, the Gudebu camp already sheltered many Tuareg refugees, as a dramatic consequence of last March's rebellion on the other side of the frontier by Islamist groups like Ansar Dine and the MUJAO.
The cradle of Chinese private capitalism is falling apart. Hard hit by the crisis, the coastal city of Wenzhou, famous for its prosperous companies, is in financial meltdown.
