Thai farmers are facing big losses in revenue with the drop in price of rice across Asia. As Steve Sandford reports from Chiang Mai, Thailand, farmers in the region are not sure who to turn to for help.
As Iraq’s Shiite militias attack Islamic State positions southwest of Mosul, a confrontation could be looming with Turkey over the city of Tal Afar.
Comprising predominantly ethnic Turkmen, the town is significant to Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is insisting that his country has historical claims in the region dating back to the Ottoman Empire.
Turkmen are an ethnic minority in northern Iraq sharing a Turkic heritage with Turkey.
The former Ottoman stronghold…
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The U.N. human rights office said Islamic State militants are increasing mass killings and abductions of civilians to use as human shields as the battle for Mosul in Iraq intensifies.
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said Islamic S…
On the night I arrived in Irbil, Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital, a Cuban band was playing in the restaurant at my hotel. The first song I heard it perform with a distinctive Caribbean verve was John Lennon’s “Imagine.” The plea for a world without killing seemed highly appropriate, if forlorn.
Kurdistan is part of Mesopotamia, a cradle of civilization that witnessed such crucial developments in human history as the invention of the wheel, the first planting of cereal crops and the first…
Nov 4 Ten years ago, less than a third of voters in President Daniel Ortega’s mining hometown backed him, but his support has since surged here and nationally, setting him up to win a third consecutive term this week despite criticism he is autocratic….
“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign — blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind.”
Apologies to the Five Man Electrical Band and its 1971 hit song, but campaign Sard signs are sprouting like weeds in this particularly polarizing election cycle. With them have come vandals carving Trump signs into “Rump” signs, and vigilantes defying local ordinances to festoon their properties with dozens of partisan placards.
How is it that these analog expressions of political…
U.N. aid agencies warn the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan, already one of the biggest in the world, is getting worse as famine looms and growing numbers of refugees flee to neighboring countries.
The World Food Program reports a 38-truck convoy, carrying food for about one month, arrived in the South Sudanese town of Yei on Friday. The agency says the food and other relief supplies will be a life-saver for thousands of families who have been trapped in the area for four…
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A massive demonstration in Jakarta against the governor turned violent Friday night when protesters burned police cars and officers responded with tear gas and water cannons. Police say at least one person was killed and seven wounded in the violence.
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