This Bolivian candidate needs an Apple watch — the fruit kind

Running for president against Bolivia's popular incumbent, Evo Morales, is probably a frustrating experience. The kind of thing that can lead a candidate to say some regrettable things. Or make ill-conceived promises. And if third-place finisher Jorge Quiroga actually ends up having to eat his watch and his tie, well, he's going to have some […]

















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In Mexico, a grim truth just below the surface

MEXICO CITY — Mexican officials made a stunning announcement yesterday: The 28 bodies recovered from a series of mass graves outside the town of Iguala are not those of 43 student protesters who went missing there three weeks ago. This news has given the students' families and classmates a strand of hope. They have demanded […]

















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Watch: Drone disrupts Serbia-Albania soccer match, sparks diplomatic incident

On Tuesday, the national soccer teams of Serbia and Albania faced off in a tense European qualifying match in Belgrade. The geopolitical enmities between the two countries already meant that there were no traveling Albanian fans in the stadium. But that didn't prevent things, as they say across the pond, from kicking off. Almost halfway […]

















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Amal Clooney goes for all the marbles in Greece

As Greek dramas go, the struggle over a marble frieze pried from the Parthenon more than 200 years ago has had many acts and many actors. There were Ottoman rulers. A Scottish earl who hauled the antiquities back to Britain. A Greek actress who became the country’s culture minister, and lobbied tirelessly for the nearly […]

















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Why Nigeria’s election year may see a spike in pirate attacks

At a shipping conference in Copenhagen last Tuesday, intelligence experts voiced a curious hypothesis about pirate attacks in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea: The attacks, they said, will increase as Nigeria gears up for general elections scheduled for February. "The ransoms are used for the elections," Hans Tino Hansen, managing director of Risk Intelligence, explained, […]

















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