Secret Palestinian documents reveal insights into Israel-Palestine peace meetings, including news that Palestinian negotiators would concede all but one of the East Jerusalem contested settlements. Al-Jazeera and The Guardian share the scoop.
While legendary Garifuna drum maker Austin Rodriguez has all but retired, the heart of Garifuna culture is still beating strong in his thatched-roof workshop in southern Belize. Inga Ting reports from southern Belize.
As the southern half of Sudan awaits official confirmation of their vote for independence, the Arab world to the north is reeling after Tunisia’s popular revolt and presidential toppling, writes Rafiq Copeland from northern Africa>
Bolivia has petitioned the UN to overturn a provision of the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which requires countries to eradicate the chewing of coca leaf, and have launched a new energy drink to coincide with the campaign.
Liberation Day in the forgotten African nation of Togo celebrates a coup led by a solider who four years earlier was involved in the assassination of the nation’s first democratically-elected president. Clair MacDougall reports from Lomé on the simmering tensions.
Ivory Coast now has two governments, writes Rafiq Copeland, a freelance writer in northern Africa.
Drug cartels in Mexico, which ruthlessly fight each other for a share of the market, also battle to control drug trafficking routes to the US worth billions of dollars. The Economist depicts the routes on an interactive map.
The collapse of authoritarian rule in Tunisia reminds us of some important lessons -- particularly that drastic political change is often unpredicted and while no Western government can take credit for it, they can now play a vital role, writes Thomas Carothers.
There's never been any doubt as to which way the South Sudanese would vote.
The debate over whether Tunisia witnessed a "Twitter revolution" reflects a commentariat unable to see outside its own obsessions.
