A shooting at the Fort Hood military base in the US has left at least four people dead, including the gunman, according to officials.Fort Hood was the scene of the largest mass […]
Gorbatjov was lied to by U.S. authorities who said that NATO would not expand into Eastern Europe
CNN’s Jonathan Mann speaks to William Pomeranz about the complicated relationship between Russia and the West.
Syrian refugee sets herself on fire
CNN’s Arwa Damon meets a Syrian refugee who resorted to drastic actions to get better treatment for her children.
World Cup highlights child prostitution crisis in Brazil
The 2014 World Cup is helping shine a spotlight on Brazil’s child prostitution crisis. CNN’s Shasta Darlington reports.
Have you ever heard of Morocco’s ‘Mule Ladies’ ?
It was 9 a.m., and hundreds of Moroccan women, many of them older, were already at work, bent over and straining, trying to inch up the hill to the border post here. […]
Libya has the least public debt in the world [interactive graphic]
The clock is ticking. Every second, it seems, someone in the world takes on more debt. The idea of a debt clock for an individual nation is familiar to anyone who has […]
The U.S. is looking for a major enemy to justify its $1 trillion defense spending
As US spending on defense reaches $1 trillion a year and defense giants such as Boeing gain increased lobbying power, the US must justify this money by creating tangible enemies around the […]
The left of Paris voted right and the right of Paris voted left
In Paris, they have a geo political wall as we also know it from Berlin. In the left part of the city, they vote right wing. In the right part of the […]
Russia calls for federated Ukraine
Russia’s foreign minister has said the solution to Ukraine’s crisis should be a loose federation of regions that can choose their own economic model, language and religion. Sergey Lavrov said he and […]
Guantanamo detainee sues Barack Obama over ‘medieval’ torture methods
A Yemeni inmate at Guantanamo Bay has introduced a landmark lawsuit challenging the practice of force-feeding at the US military prison camp. The case represents the first time a US court will […]