Iran’s Ahmadi-Nejad has shoe thrown at him
The visit of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad to Cairo on Tuesday marked the first time an Iranian leader has been to Egypt since Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979. At a press conference he said he hoped the trip...
View ArticleSmart Reads February 07, 2013
Nervousness over Canada’s outlook and falling house prices have cast a cloud over Mark Carney’s last few months as Bank of Canada governor. Cyprus is still waiting for international funding, despite...
View ArticleSmart Reads February 11, 2013
With President Obama’s State of the Union address just a day away, Edward Luce considers what he might want to say. The New York Times reports that he will use the speech to reinvigorate one of his...
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Tony Barber argues that a decontamination of Italian politics must come before economic salvation, and the two issues should never be separated. Clown-turned-politician Francisco Everardo Oliveira...
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We look back at the life of the quixotic and controversial Hugo Chávez. The reaction to his death has been low key in China, raising questions about its relationship with Venezuela. China may think...
View ArticleSmart Reads March 8, 2013
The daughter of Uzbekistan’s autocratic president, Gulnara Karimova, has for some time been the western-friendly face of the regime. She has released a duet with Gérard Depardieu, launched a fashion...
View ArticleSmart Reads March 12, 2013
Lamido Sanusi, Nigeria’s central bank governor, argues that Africa’s relationship with China carries with it a whiff of colonialism and that Africa must start treating China as a competitor. “Africa...
View ArticleSmart Reads March 19, 2013
On the Cyprus crisis: Gideon Rachman wonders why European leaders have taken a gamble in Cyprus: “The answer is that they, too, are out of credit – political credit.” Quentin Peel explains that the...
View ArticleSmart Reads March 22, 2013
Eliot Higgins, an unemployed finance and admin worker, has been using his expertise in spreadsheets to break stories about Syria from his front room in the suburbs of Leicester, UK. Egyptian novelist...
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The Bank of Japan has announced an aggressive move to increase the money supply and target deflation. Or, as Jonathan Soble puts it, Haruhiko Kuroda has come as close to scattering money from the back...
View ArticleSmart Reads April 9, 2013
Obama is trying to inject some momentum into the gun debate, but the congressional bill will be a diluted version of his original vision. Lebanon has again become a weather vane for the Middle East....
View ArticleSmart Reads April 11, 2013
♦ Cuts to welfare payments in the UK will hit northern communities as much as five times as hard as the Conservative heartlands of the south. Take a look at the FT’s Austerity Audit interactive to see...
View ArticleSmart Reads April 15, 2013
♦ Syria’s Jabhat al-Nusra has dealt a blow to the rebel cause. ♦ When it comes to the labour market, America is suffering from a rising case of ‘German envy’, writes Edward Luce. However, Germany’s...
View ArticleSmart Reads May 1, 2013
♦ Another runner in the Great Tax Race: Susana Martinez, governor of New Mexico, hopes that recently approved cuts to corporate tax rates will help diversify its economy – following on from a tax...
View ArticleSmart Reads June 27, 2013
♦ Italy faces billions of euros in potential losses, after restructuring eight derivatives contracts last year. Italy’s judiciary is investigating whether the Treasury risked too much monetary loss in...
View ArticleSmart Reads June 28, 2013
♦ In Syria, loyalists proclaim their success, but there are plenty of reminders that their progress is limited and potentially reversible. ♦ In Egypt, critics accuse Mohamed Morsi and the ruling Muslim...
View ArticleSmart Reads July 1, 2013
♦ In Egypt, at least nine people were killed in protests bigger than those seen during the country’s 2011 uprising. More than a million people demanded that president Mohamed Morsi step down. ♦ Poor...
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In the Picture: Mohamed Morsi, one year on
Mohamed Morsi (Getty) Mohamed Morsi’s presidency is teetering on the brink. Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Morsi moved into the presidency a year ago. But the anniversary has drawn...
View ArticleSmart Reads July 2, 2013
♦ The price of Egypt’s revolutionary passion is exceedingly high, says Roula Khalaf. “What lies ahead, at least in the short term, is another huge leap into the unknown.” ♦ The Middle East descends...
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