Boko Haram released a video claiming credit for the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian school girls. The Nigerian government is still struggling to come up with an effective response.

In word and even in deed, Vladimir Putin is acting a lot like Slobodan Milosevic in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It seems to be working for Putin. But then again, for a time it seemed to be working for Milosevic as well.

China leaks its plans for dealing with North Korean officials and refugees if the regime implodes.

Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has alienated certain BJP leaders on his way to the top, and some have even resigned.

Local officials in a city on China’s south-central coast have knocked down a Protestant church and demolished several Catholic statues. The moves fit into a pattern of official unease with the rapid growth of Christianity in China.

Scientists have found a way to reverse aging in mice. If it works in humans, too, youth-hungry baby-boomers may soon be hunting for millennial blood.

Libya elected a new Prime Minister yesterday, but within hours, the vote was declared illegal. That brings the total to a half-dozen PMs in the past three years.

America just got its first look at Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), after a patient who had recently traveled to Riyadh ended up in an Indiana hospital. The disease has a roughly 50 percent fatality rate, and it’s spreading to every corner of the world.

As Hamas begins to entertain even a slight moderation in its stance towards Israel, a more consistently rejectionist group stands in the wings ready to capitalize.

Even as the crisis in Ukraine spins further out of control, polls on the ground ought to give Vladimir Putin some pause if he is considering putting Russian boots on the ground.