Google Missed Out on China. Can It Flourish in India?
Trump misses deadline over moving US embassy to Jerusalem
White House says decision will be made in coming days amid warnings move from Tel Aviv could further destabilise region
Donald Trump appears to have missed a second anticipated deadline for signing a waiver on a controversial US law requiring the US embassy to be moved to Jerusalem, in an act of brinkmanship over one of the Middle East’s most fraught issues.
According to diplomats and Palestinians officials, the original deadline was expected to have fallen on Friday at midnight and was pushed to Monday. That deadline passed without an announcement after a White House official said no action would be taken on Monday.
What the Russian Revolution can teach us about the Middle East today
The Bolshevik demonisation of the ‘White’ Russians in the ferocious anti-religious, anti-capitalist posters on display in Paris at the Musee de l’Armee are not dissimilar to the “war against terror” which Bashar al-Assad and the Russians think they are fighting in Syria today
These days, uprisings should be studied with a cold eye and there’s a fine little exhibition on in Paris about the 1917 Russian revolution which casts a dark reflection on the Arab “awakening” we’ve all been observing in the Middle East. It’s an extraordinary display from the “revolution which changed the world”, including posters, photographs and – amazingly – some documents which show just how much the Mencheviks (and the Russian Provisional Government) and then the Bolsheviks tried to enlist the Muslim world – and the Armenians – in their destruction of the Romanov dynasty.
I suppose the overthrow of Mubarak (the Tsar) and then the brief 11-month tenure of Mohamed Morsi (representing the temporary Mensheviks comes to mind; but Field Marshal-President al-Sissi of Egypt hardly counts as a Lenin (or a Stalin) and the war which the Egyptian government is now fighting in Sinai bears no relation to the “Whites” versus the “Reds” – yet. On balance, the end of King Farouq of Egypt, the temporary leadership of General Neguib (the Mensheviks) and then the takeover by Nasser would be much closer to the mark.
G20 Hamburg riot suspects raided by police across Germany
A special commission has spent the past six months combing through images of rioters at the Hamburg G20. Police have now carried out raids across Germany.
German police launched a series of raids on Tuesday against people suspected of rioting during the G20 meeting in Hamburg in July, local media reported.
The investigative criminal police forces (LKA) in several states raided more than 20 properties across Germany, according to "Spiegel" news magazine and public broadcaster NDR. The raids took place in the states of Hamburg, Berlin, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Rhineland-Palatinate and Lower Saxony.
‘This is armed robbery,’ Honduras candidate Nasralla tells FRANCE 24
Honduras on Monday finally concluded a much-delayed count from its presidential election but refrained from declaring incumbent leader Juan Orlando Hernandez the outright winner, as soldiers tried to keep a lid on simmering post-poll unrest.
The small Central American nation of 10 million, which suffers chronic violence and prolific gang activity, has been put under nighttime curfew after clashes during protests and some reports of looting.
Late Monday, some police were refusing to enforce the curfew; the public safety minister said the row could be part of a dispute over pay and Christmas bonuses.
North Korean soldier: Surgeon says defector 'was like a broken jar'
Updated 0122 GMT (0922 HKT) December 5, 2017
South Korean surgeon Lee Cook-Jong was already having a busy day in Trauma Bay 1 when he got the call: A US Black Hawk helicopter was on its way with an injured soldier. But it wasn't just any soldier.
"I was informed that he was badly shot by North Koreans," Lee said, reliving the complex chain of events that brought North Korean defector Oh Chong Song to his trauma unit on November 13.
Lee says he went to meet his critically injured patient on the helipad, just a few hundred feet from the state-of-the-art, US-modeled trauma center he runs at Ajou University Hospital in the South Korean capital, Seoul.
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