Globe Trot

Kenyan presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta addresses a crowd during a rally in Nairobi in January.

Globe Trot: Kenyan politics, Pope prototype, Kerry firsts, homeschooling hostility

International |  A Kenyan court has cleared the way for Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of the country’s founding president, to run in the March 4 presidential election—even…

Supporters of Hugo Chavez celebrate his return to Venezuela today.

Globe Trot: Chavez returns, leaked pope papers, TB in India, Iraq survivor, Copts attacked

International |  President Hugo Chavez made a surprise return to Venezuela following cancer treatment in Cuba. A web of corruption and backbiting is coming to light with an…

Sen. Marco Rubio

Globe Trot: ‘Misguided’ foreign policy, Bush successes, ketchup deal, lent …

International |  President Barack Obama has failed to engage in the debate about America’s role in the world, wrote Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in Foreign Policy . Rubio conceded…

U.S. Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, right, shakes hand with outgoing NATO commander U.S. Gen. John Allen, left.

Globe Trot: Nuclear tests, Gen. Allen leaves NATO, letters for Iranian prisoners, and Koreans killed in Nigeria

International |  North Korea’s third nuclear test measured as a 5.1-magnitude earthquake detected by U.S. Geological Survey in North Korea on Tuesday. Since…

Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana

Globe Trot: Possible pope successor, Syria, China, Benghazi, Russia, evangelism in Muslim countries

International |  Pope Benedictus XVI became the first head of the Roman Catholic Church since 1415 to resign∫ announcing he will step down Feb. 28, citing his “advanced…

Sherry Rehman talks to reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan

Globe Trot: Secret drones, tiny drones, history in Mali, and ‘hell’ in Syria

International |  Today  The Washington Post  admits that it and other news organizations have known for a year that the United States was operating a drone…

Demonstrators hold candles in memory of protester Mohammed Qorany, at the spot where he died in clashes, near the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt.

Globe Trot: Unsafe in Egypt, military suicides, Hillary Clinton’s last speech and Richard III found

International |  Egypt “overall is entering into a very dangerous phase,” says Hudson Institute’s Sam Tadros, one of the best experts to follow on Egypt (and an…

A protester surrounded by teargas and smoke in Cairo.

Globe Trot: Insecurity in Egypt, the French in Mali, Brazil fire, Christians deaths in Iraq …

International |  The Egyptian government declared emergency law in three canal region cities following recent violence and demonstrations. Cairo scholar Essam Abdalla told me…

Anti-government protesters gather near Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday.

Globe Trot: Egypt anniversary, Vietnam house churches, Mumbai plotter sentenced, Israeli politics

International |  Today marks the second anniversary of the start of the Egyptian uprising that toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Then, as today, protesters took to the…

A snowboarder near the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris Sunday.

Globe Trot: Snow in Europe, French fashion, standoff in Algeria, Mali, ethnic cleansing in Sudan

International |  In Washington it’s Inauguration Day. In Paris and other European capitals, it’s a snow day. Big headaches for European travelers but a fond view for those…

A 2005 photo of the Ain Amenas gas field in Algeria, where al-Qaeda terrorists raided and took hostages Wednesday.

Globe Trot: Algeria, North Korea, Syria, Paris protests, mapping North Africa

International |  “Terrorists should be on notice,” said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta today in London, following the Algerian army’s raid to release an unknown number…

A motorcyclist waves his support as French troops in armored personnel carriers drive through Mali's capital Bamako Tuesday.

Globe Trot: Mali matters, Dreamliners grounded, ‘red line’ in Syria, Chechen Bibles

International |  The French defense minister says fighting in Mali will be “long,” as French forces today moved into towns just south of areas captured recently by Islamic…

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