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Lindsey Hilsum’s international eye on the year ahead
Journalists make poor prophets, but January is the month when we all think about the year ahead, and the big picture.
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Veteran Russia-watchers predicted the crisis in Crimea years ago with eerie accuracy. Their analysis suggests that Vladimir Putin may not pull his troops out in a hurry.
The trial of Al Jazeera journalists puts Cairo’s crackdown on the media in the spotlight – but for Egyptian journalists a climate of fear has been pervasive since the military took control last June.
A booming population of affluent newcomers is pushing long-term residents out of their homes and fuelling talk of class war in San Francisco, the once mellow haven for hippies.
Human rights lawyers call for the International Criminal Court to investigate thousands of allegations of abuse by British forces in Iraq.
Journalists make poor prophets, but January is the month when we all think about the year ahead, and the big picture.
Paul Mason speaks to the conspiracy theorists about the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy, and meets the students who wish the past would stop haunting American politics.
“It wasn’t their poor judgement in talking to the media, but in not telling the truth” – the verdict of one source on the policy apology.
As the US Senate leaders continue to negotiate to end the current fiscal crisis, it is clear that Republican efforts to redraw political districts are having unintended consequences.
Word has arrived of a major development in the case of Sahar Gul, the 15-year-old girl rescued from terrible abuse by her in-laws and featured in a recent Unreported World documentary.
Twerking is just the start of it. Sinead O’Connor has a list of what is wrong with the music industry. And several things to say about her escalating spat with popstar Miley Cyrus.
Much like political party delegates in Brighton, Bournemouth or Birmingham, everyone in football knows this week’s FIFA meeting in Zurich is politics through and through.
Suggestions are coming to light that Qatar’s petrodollars and global deals helped secure its World Cup bid. But could the country be robbed of the event?
Europe Editor Matt Frei pops into Angela Merkel’s final campaign rally, to see why the self-deprecating physicist is still popular with the crowds.
In a US TV interview, Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani says the country seeks peace and friendship and has no nuclear weapons as he continues on a seeming rapprochement campaign with the west.
The election of Iran’s President Rouhani, combined with escalating diplomacy surrounding Syria, means back channels have been reopened between Washington and Iran.