Tag: World news
‘This is a very happy place to be day in, day out’: readers on life in Canada
To mark Canada Day on 1 July we asked readers what its really like living in the country, how Canada is perceived from the outside and what improvements could still be made I appreciate more about Canada the more I travel elsewhere – Julienne Isaacs, Winnipeg, Manitoba Theres always an exception to the rule, but […]
George Soros: EU exit risks ‘black Friday’
Exclusive: Currency speculator warns devaluation would mean more disruption than when UK dropped out of ERM in 1992 The worlds most famous currency speculator has warned that a vote on Thursday for Britain to leave the EU would trigger a bigger and more damaging fall for sterling than the day he forced Britain out of […]
Inside Bangladesh’s killing fields: bloggers and outsiders targeted by fanatics
First they came for the bloggers, the atheists, the secular intellectuals. Then the three-year murder spree spread to aid workers, minority religions and Muslims who did not want their country reshaped by extremist Islam The attack on Professor Rezaul Karim Siddiquee was so frenzied that its traces remain more than a month later, arcs of […]
Venezuelan opposition leaders attacked by pro-government groups
Lawmaker hit with pipe amid rising tension as opposition calls for recall referendum against Nicols Maduro and deep economic crisis is fueling protests Venezuelan opposition lawmakers said they were attacked by pro-government groups as they tried to enter the electoral board headquarters on Thursday to demand a recall referendum against President Nicols Maduro. The incident […]
From the Vietnam war to Islam the key chapters in Ali’s life
Wherever the great dramas, triumphs and tragedies of a generation were, there was Muhammad Ali Ali and Vietnam Cassius Clay, as he was then, was not so much a fighter for peace as a peaceable fighter who needed a reason to fight and Vietnam was not that reason. He might have feared he could serve […]