By Charles M. Sennott Editor-at-Large, The GroundTruth Project YANGON, MYANMAR -- In the shadows of the ancient Buddhist shrine at the Shwedagon Pago...
By Jay T. Snyder Founder, The Open Hands Initiative This is an exciting week for the Open Hands Initiative. Our OHI team has just arrived in Myanmar,...
By Guy Hedgecoe MADRID -- Jose Mantero served as a Roman Catholic priest in rural Spain for 16 years before doing something he says no pries...
By Nicole Greenfield BUENOS AIRES -- The decision finally came at around 4 a.m., broadcast live to the thousands who had traveled from every...
Our mission should be aimed at empowering the Afghans, not overpowering them. And that doesn't mean simply empowering the Afghan military.
By Tristan McConnell VICTORIA, Seychelles -- Maj. Simon Laurencine watched as two yellow dots lit up the radar screen in the bridge of Topaz, his S...
Michael Goldfarb GlobalPost An excerpt from Michael Goldfarb's new book, "Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolutio...
CBS News plans to announce Monday that it has formed a partnership with GlobalPost, a foreign news Web site, that will provide CBS with reporting from...
Jason Overdorf I GlobalPost NEW DELHI -- In India, the economic crisis may actually be good news. During the salad days of the past decade, India'...
By Charles M. Sennott With Photos By Seamus Murphy | GlobalPost It was out of the refugee camps in Pakistan's northwest frontier province that the ...
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John F. Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says he will hold far-ranging oversight hearings on the U.S. inv...
SANTIAGO, Chile -- During Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, political prisoners were held in navy ships and stadiums, in office buildings and police st...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Ziyad Hijab bin Naheet felt like he was in a dream. Standing on the stage under bright lights and a storm of confetti, he ra...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- For Thai teenagers, Japan and Korea emanate all that is hip: candy-colored sneakers, saccharine-sweet pop bands, hair spiked in...
BUENOS AIRES -- When Argentines discovered that they had a Holocaust-denying bishop in their midst, the public outcry was forceful and the governmen...
TOKYO - In the days of VHS cassettes, a visit to a video rental shop here for a Hollywood blockbuster would often end in disappointment -- all the c...
LAREDO, Texas -- For evidence of the booming bullet business along the U.S.-Mexico border, look no further than the case of Carlos Alberto Osorio Ca...
YANGQU, China -- With a raft of subsidies and thousands of new stores to spur spending, China is eyeing its poorest people -- farmers -- to kick-sta...
ISTANBUL -- A woman in the studio audience stands up and, with the spotlight highlighting her covered head, announces to the crowd that her husband ...
GONGYI, China -- The flowers that welcome visitors to the town of Gongyi in China's Henan province have seen better days. The stems that spell out t...
CARACAS -- Venezuelans will vote for a second time on Sunday on whether to scrap term limits, in a referendum that will lay plain their feelings abo...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Throughout the ages, this ancient Silk Road town near the border of Afghanistan has been the place where the black market thr...
CAIRO, Egypt -- An Egyptian family asked to play with the lions. Two dollars, said the zookeeper. The mother nodded and the zoo employee motioned to...
TOKYO -- Kazuhiro Yamada may describe himself as an innocent victim of the recession, but he is unlikely to win much sympathy. Until he lost his j...
KABUL -- Hamid Karzai's days as president of Afghanistan appear to be numbered. But his behavior would indicate that somebody forgot to tell the man...
