The prospects for a deal regarding Iran's nuclear program look better than they have for a long time. The Israeli government isn't happy about the idea, for reasons that may not be quite what they seem.
Category: War and peace
Iranians almost get Facebook again
A window opens up in Iran's censorship regime, before being slammed shut again. It's one part of a delicate political game for the country's new moderate president.
Chile remembers 1973
Chile marks the fortieth anniversary of the military coup that led to the Pinochet dictatorship. In a presidential election year, the country's past is still very much alive.
Compare and contrast: Iraq and Syria
Syria is very different from Iraq, primarily because there's a war already in progress. That doesn't mean military intervention is the right move, but it makes it a more difficult question.
Iran and the resonance of the past
Sixty years on from a coup that poisoned Iranian-US relations, the CIA has come clean about its role. It may be a small step forward in a difficult process of reconciliation.
Please don’t feed the beast
Unnecessary military spending is a cancer on democracy, but it takes a case like Egypt to show the real damage that it can do.
Just a war of words over Gibraltar
Spain and Britain have been at loggerheads this week over Gibraltar, Britain's last territory on the European mainland. But there's no prospect of a rerun of the Falklands War.
An ominous but hopeful anniversary
Burma commemorates the failed revolution of 1988 in a new spirit of openness.
Another swing to the left
A swing to the centre-left in Turkish Northern Cyprus raises modest hopes for a renewed peace process.
One weekend, four elections
The weekend's four elections, in Kuwait, Cambodia, Northern Cyprus and Mali, make an interesting set of contrasts.
The World is Not Enough 