World Mar 17 View From Tokyo: Japanese Try to Go on With Daily Life ‘as Best They Can’ In Japan, foreign governments are evacuating their citizens from the area of the Fukushima nuclear plant, as the Japanese military works to douse the facility with tons of water to prevent a nuclear reactor meltdown.
World Mar 15 Japan’s Reshaped Coastline as Seen From Space View NASA's satellite imagery of Japan's northeastern coast before and after the March 11 tsunami.
World Mar 14 Arab States Band Together to Squelch Protests in Bahrain The United Arab Emirates sent 500 police to Bahrain to join a regional force aimed at quelling growing protests in the small Persian Gulf state.
World Mar 14 World Week Ahead: Japan’s Nuclear Threat; Pressure on Libya Japan's triple whammy -- earthquake, tsunami and a possible nuclear disaster, which Prime Minister Naoto Kan called the worst crisis since World War II -- will dominate the week.
World Mar 10 In Egypt, Excitement Dampened by Continued Violence Following Egypt's revolution that brought down former president Hosni Mubarak a month ago, Egyptians are cautiously optimistic about the movement toward democracy, but sporadic violence continues to hamper the process, reports Jon Jensen, GlobalPost's correspondent in Cairo.
World Mar 09 Heavy-Handed Response to Journalists in China Becomes the Story Anonymous calls on the Internet for Tunisian-inspired protests in China roused several hundred people to protest on Feb. 20, but the heavy-handed response that followed actually became the story, said Kathleen McLaughlin, GlobalPost's correspondent in Beijing.
World Mar 08 In Photos: Women Show Solidarity at Events Around the Globe Women came together on March 8 to express a message of solidarity on International Women's Day by dancing in Iraq, protesting in Ivory Coast and dressing as men in Lebanon.
World Mar 08 Conflict over Bangladeshi Micro-lender is ‘Political’, Some Say A Bangladeshi court has upheld the removal of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as head of the micro-lending Grameen Bank he founded, in a move his supporters are calling politically motivated.
World Mar 07 World Week Ahead: Libya’s Revolt; Women’s Issues; Guatemala Series Violence from nations as disparate as Libya and Guatemala will dominate the international week ahead for the NewsHour.
World Mar 04 In War Zones, Education Takes a Backseat to Other Needs Education is often another casualty in countries wracked by violence, a recent U.N. report found, as more immediate needs such as food and shelter take priority. But some aid groups say education should be viewed with more urgency as a…