 | A guide to understanding what happened in Congo Nov 20th 2012, 21:12 While most of the world was affixed to the crisis in the Middle East, almost 2,300 miles away from the heart of the Gaza strip, Goma, the capital of North Kivu province in Congo, was rocked by explosions and machine gun fire, then taken over by M23, a rebel group that is said to have close ties with neighboring Rwanda. The new fighting has raised the possibility of a regional war. Read full article >>   | | The video of a teenage girl's random assault that has London up in arms Nov 20th 2012, 19:35 British police have released this very disturbing video, reportedly captured by a nearby closed-circuit camera, of a man attacking a 16-year-old girl for what authorities say is no discernible reason. Crime is a major political issue in London, though a United Nations report found that it was one of the safest capital cities in the world. "Nevertheless, crime remains a concern for many Londoners and a key battleground in the mayoral election," the BBC explained earlier this year. Incumbent Boris Johnson won reelection a month later, but crime has often remained in the city's media spotlight. Read full article >>   | | Does the Gaza crisis make Israeli strikes on Iran more likely? Nov 20th 2012, 18:47 As the Israel Defense Forces continue strikes meant to weaken Hamas's rocket-launching capabilities, more analysts are starting to wonder about the country that supplies many of those longer-range rockets: Iran. For at least two years, Mideast watchers have been trying to figure out how seriously to take long-standing Israeli threats that it would launch airstrikes against suspected Iranian nuclear sites. Now, some observers say that the Israel-Gaza fighting, which began Wednesday with a surprise Israeli airstrike on a senior Hamas figure, could make strikes on Iran more likely. Read full article >>   | | What is life like inside the tunnels of Gaza? Nov 20th 2012, 16:03 For almost five years now, more than 1.5 million people in Gaza have been living under a blockade, a measure imposed by Israel, and later tightened by Egypt, to weaken Hamas and end rocket attacks into Israel. By restricting imports and exports, the blockade has created severe economic hardships.The United Nations says it perpetuates "an unsustainable and unacceptable" situation for the Gazans. So the Gazans have come to rely on an elaborate network of smuggling tunnels to get supplies. Read full article >>   | | Why is China censoring a fake photo of its leaders doing Gangnam Style'? Nov 20th 2012, 13:00 Here's the timeline: On November 8, the first day that Chinese leaders gathered for their once-in-a-decade Party Congress to announce the next generation of leaders, a Chinese-language Facebook page posted a clearly doctored photo of the party's top officials doing the dance from South Korean pop hit Gangnam Style. On November 13, popular China blog Beijing Cream picked it up. The congress ended two days later, and on the 17th, a widely followed user on China's popular Twitter-like service, Weibo, posted the image with a banal message about the song's popularity. Censors pulled it down almost immediately. Read full article >>   | | In Gaza, line between militants and population is thin Nov 19th 2012, 23:57 DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — No place is safe. That is what the relatives of Amin Zohdi Bashir and Tamer Rushdi Bashir said as they buried two cousins on Monday. They were killed Monday morning in a thundering flash of light that left their car in flames and streaks of tomatoes smashed across the roadside. Relatives said the men were farmers who had nothing to do with the dozens of rockets that militants in Gaza lobbed toward Israel on Monday. Read full article >> | |
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