Jon Snow
The Pope, the Equality Bill and unholy laws
Equality laws should protect the people, not our religious institutions, blogs Jon Snow.
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How tough talk at the UN may have eased Falkland tensions
Sarah Smith blogs from New York on how Jorge Taiana’s meeting at the United Nations may offer a pause from Argentina’s strong language over the Falkland Islands.
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Falklands oil row now moves to New York
Sarah Smith blogs on attempts by the Argentinian Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana to persuade the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to encourage talks over the Falkland Islands.
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Haiti and the forgotten fundamentalists
Do we ignore the dangers inherent in hysterical fundamentalism in all faiths at our peril? Jon Snow asks why religious fundamentalism is developing a stranglehold on societies across the world.
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Haiti quake: how to help the rescue effort
Efforts to raise millions of pounds to help survivors of the Haiti earthquake are under way in the UK and around the world. Here is the latest information on the relief effort and how you can help.
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Brazil: a country at an environmental pivot
Jon Snow blogs from Brazil on the start of a special week of reports.
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In the midst of a tectonic shift in the new world order
Last night I found myself in the ornate circumstance of the Banqueting Hall in Whitehall. I also found myself too in the midst of a tectonic shift in the new world order. For this was an event in which the old world of European kings and queens were making way for a citizen of the…
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Expenses backlash for foreign office minister
The following correspondence has come my way…it shows the new foreign office minister charged with looking after Latin America, reaching out to Latin American interests in the UK. I’m wondering how many other ministers, opposition front benchers and MPs are in receipt of such anger from voters?
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Simon Bolivar lives!
I emerged emotionally exhausted from what was undoubtedly one of the most incredible musical experiences I have ever had. Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela have been celebrated on every media platform all week. But nothing prepares you for the real thing. The sound, the energy, the scale, the vision, combine…
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To Greeneland, via Colombia
Curiously, my brief sojourn in Colombia has fuelled me up, for Cartagena is straight out of Greene. Black-hatted priests bent against the wind, striding two abreast beneath the sharp shadows of the un-sunny side of the street. Large tolling bells. A white stucco church, pantiled houses beyond with assorted ochres, yellows, and reds. Somewhere beneath…
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Starting to feel like the wrong sort of Snow
Once in a while the gods deal you an unexpected hand. I am attempting the apparently Latin-American impossible: Colombia to London inside 24 hrs. The signs are not good. An hour and a half to go to take-off, and no-one is at check-in either side of the desk. Then I see why. The previous flight…
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Who benefits from the global trade in drugs?
I am in the south looking north, in Latin America, in Colombia. The disconnect is acute. The biggest event of the day? The appearance of the Mexican and Colombian presidents at Davos. No, don’t think Davos rocks here in the Andean foothills, on the rolling desert along the coast. But Latino presidents on the world…
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In Cartagena the talk is of Farc and fatwas
It’s hot, humid and yet a sea breeze blows down the narrow streets to flutter the table cloths of the pavement cafes. Cartagena is on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. Yellow, pink, white, blue houses compete for a ringside seat in this packed town. It’s a natural enough place to have a book festival. There…
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On the way to Hay – via Bogota
It’s rare for me these days to visit a completely new country. I’m beginning to run out of mainstream options. I think I’ve visited around 104, though I have never been to China (other than Hong Kong) or Brazil. Today I’m next door, in Colombia – a country twice the size of France with a…
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US-Russia prisoner swap ‘momentous moment’, says Putin critic
We’re joined by financier Bill Browder, who is a friend of Vladimir Kara-Murza. He’s been an outspoken critic of Russia’s President since the death in a Moscow prison of his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who’d uncovered massive fraud involving Russian officials.
