Recent terrorist attacks in Volgograd and Stavropol are unlikely to undermine security at the 2014 Winter Olympics given the attention surrounding the games.
Sochi is probably the safest place in Russia these days.
While that may be welcome news for Olympians, it’s probably bad news for Russians elsewhere.
GlobalPost spoke to Mark Galeotti, a global affairs professor at New York University who's written
As President Barack Obama and China’s Xi Jinping prepare to meet, issues like cyber-spying, economics and human rights are simmering.
When President Xi Jinping meets President Barack Obama on Friday in California, it will be a rare move for the Chinese. According to one longtime observer, all other Chinese leaders have made Washington the destination for their first appearances inside the United States. That’s significant, former National Security Council senior director
Kristin Beck began hormone therapy shortly after retiring from the Navy SEALs.
A decorated former Navy SEAL revealed to the world in a new book that after retiring, he underwent hormone therapy and is now living life as a woman. Kristin Beck – in Warrior Princess: A US Navy SEAL’s Journey to Coming out Transgender – was published as an eBook on Saturday and is now available at
The man who led Algeria’s biggest hostage-taking in recent memory was called out over missed meetings and phone calls.
Not even Al Qaeda is immune from office politics. The Associated Press has discovered an insightful, perhaps embarrassing, 10-page letter from the terrorist
Native Americans throughout the country consider the ‘R-word’ a racial, derogatory slur akin to the ‘N-word’ among African Americans.
Political pressure is mounting on Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder. A month after city councilors petitioned the NFL team’s owner about abandoning his “racist” logo and nickname, 10 members of Congress have joined the fray. They sent letters urging change to Snyder, NFL commissioner
Not only is too sexy for his shirt, he’s too sexy for the entire nation of Saudi Arabia. If Internet speculation is proven correct (and when is it not?), Al Gala is one of three men deported last week over fears they would whip Saudi women into an unholy frenzy. The actor, photographer and model […]
Not only is too sexy for his shirt, he’s too sexy for the entire nation of Saudi Arabia. If Internet speculation is proven correct (and when is it not?), Al Gala is one of three men deported last week over fears they would whip Saudi women into an unholy frenzy. The
Americans please take note, Czech Republic is a once-troubled yet entirely peaceful ally tucked into the heart of Central Europe. Chechnya is a restive Russian region that survived its most recent spate of bloody violence just a decade ago. It remains a simmering section of the Caucasuses, itself a swirling mix of ethnicities, cultures and […]
Americans please take note, Czech Republic is a once-troubled yet entirely peaceful ally tucked into the heart of Central Europe. Chechnya is a restive
