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Monthly archives: January 2014

Syria conflict: Government offers prisoner exchange

  Syria’s foreign minister has said Damascus is ready to offer a prisoner exchange with rebels. Speaking in Moscow, Walid Muallem also said he had presented a ceasefire plan for the second city Aleppo to his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. The moves came as the opposition Syrian National Coalition prepares to meet in Istanbul to decide whether to go to next week’s peace conference. The coalition is under Western pressure […]

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The Rise of China's Innovation Machine

China has long been the factory floor that churns out popular gadgets for companies world-wide, but the country’s own technology products were rarely viewed as leading edge. Now, that is beginning to change. Increasingly, China’s own technology companies are challenging market leaders and setting trends in telecommunications, mobile devices and online services. Keeping better-known global competitors at bay in their massive home market, they are hiring Silicon Valley executives and […]

Reunion Island: India’s French Connection

A diffused, numinous quality inhabits the light over Reunion Island. The physics is not too complicated to explain. Every day, with the utmost reliability, clumps of cloud form around the peaks of the island’s central mountains, filtering the tropical sun, allowing it to shine through in broad shafts of golden light. These beams blaze at will upon Reunion’s plains of volcanic soil, its sugar cane plantations, its beaches of satin-soft […]

What makes a global property hot spot?

What makes a city an attractive place to buy in and what’s the impact on domestic buyers when foreigners come in? Despite the tepid economic recovery, property prices are rising at a pace last seen before the financial crash in key cities in post-crisis countries, such as London and New York. London prices have led the best year for property in Britain since 2006, now at 27% above their peak […]

Meet the 32-year-old militiaman holding Libya’s oil hostage

A 32-year-old Libyan militia leader, sitting since July on billions of dollars of oil in the eastern part of the country, was defiant in an exclusive interview Tuesday with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “This government has allowed Libya to become one of the most corrupted five states in the world,” Ibrahim Jadran said. “The government is not able to defend itself.” Perhaps no single person better illustrates the post-war woes of […]

Paignton Zoo monkeys banned from eating bananas

Monkeys at a zoo have been banned from eating bananas because keepers say they are too sugary.   Paignton Zoo in Devon says giving monkeys bananas cultivated for humans is like giving them cake and chocolate. Amy Plowman, head of conservation, said that is because they are too ripe for monkeys and can cause gastrointestinal problems. Dr Plowman said it had not been too hard to wean the monkeys off […]

The ballad of the Romanian shepherd

Shepherds have a special place in Romania’s history and in its culture, and their lifestyle has not changed much in centuries – until now. Social media has turned at least one of them into a celebrity, writes Caroline Juler. On a dank Monday evening some weeks ago, a Romanian shepherd called Ghita left home with his sheep. He wasn’t in a lorry but on foot, accompanied by several angajati, or […]

In post-earthquake Haiti, a forgotten island is left to recover on its own

ANSE-A-GALETS, Haiti — To traverse the 13-mile stretch of Caribbean Sea to the island of La Gonave, one must choose between three types of boats, none particularly safe. First there are the “fly boats,” speed boats with outboard motors that race a dozen people from one side to the other. From time to time they flip over. Few records exist as to how many people survive. Then there are the […]