Pakistan’s rupee has risen sharply despite the moribund state of its economy. According to the Finance Minister, this currency windfall is thanks to a large payment from a secret “friendly Muslim country.” Anyone care to guess which country?

Japan’s Shinzo Abe is working to revise rules on exporting military equipment as part of his program of militarization. But not everyone in Japan is on board.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is being squeezed from both sides, with both supporters and opponents pursuing lawsuits to challenge his policies.

The EU was handling Ukraine crisis reasonably well up until Yanukovych was deposed, but it has since lost its way. European leaders need to get their acts together.

India’s stock market has been going gangbusters over the past few weeks. Why? It’s the Modi factor.

It’s usually failed peace talks (or failed boycotts) that put Israel in the news, but some attention-grabbing domestic reforms are sweeping the Jewish state this week, with enormous consequences for the country’s Arab and ultra-orthodox minorities. Understanding the dizzying array of domestic forces in this tiny country of eight million people is important not just for US officials, but for many millions of American voters.

American colleges are aggressively courting foreign students, who, it just so happens, are more likely than American students to pay full price for tuition. Schools are trying everything to improve their financial prospects—everything except look for ways to cut costs.

China and Pakistan usually get most of the attention when it comes to evaluating India’s prospects. It’s sometimes easy to forget that a Maoist insurgency is raging within the country’s heartland. The internal fighting could grow even worse during next month’s elections.

“Competency-based learning” programs, which allow students to advance based on what they’ve learned rather than their age, are gaining ground at the K–12 level.

“We have no intention to rethink the Kono Statement,” the Japanese government announced yesterday. Some of the more fiery right-wingers in Tokyo will be disappointed.