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Is Your Priest a Black Sheep? Website Allows Users to Rate Priests
Priests in Germany need to up their game or they will be marked out as “black sheep.”
The New Egyptian Flag
The Egyptian flag that hangs in Khaled Fahmy’s office window is a pretty big deal.
Norway: Lessons Learned from a Nation in Mourning
I go to meet Tore Bjorgo, who has been studying Norwegian right-wing extremism for decades.
View from Russia: The phone-hacking scandal
For part-2 of this series, I spoke to Moscow-based journalist Svetlana Kunitsyna about how the phone-hacking scandal was covered in Russia.
Media Hacks Discuss Phone-Hacking Scandal Part 1
It’s a story that checks four boxes – the four P’s – Politics, Police, Press and custard Pie.
Blog: In Nukes’ Shadow, Fearlessness and Fatalism
It bothers Gesha Witt that Germany is shutting down its nuclear plants.
Kamwa Festival and Perm
The stage is on the side of a hill in a beautiful valley surrounded by lakes and hills, so picturesque, like something from a hobbit movie.
Fukushima Motivated Soccer Victory
An interview with Japanese radio broadcaster Hirofumi Nakano of FM station J-Wave on Japan’s women’s soccer team.
Rains That Don’t Wet
If you visit a Mongolian ger, be prepared for a few things. First, you’ll be served a thin-walled bowl of weak tea.
They’re coming
Western activists were not allowed to board planes to Ben Gurion airport, but tens of them, he said, are due to start arriving soon.
Arrival in Perm
Our hotel in perm is a strange Russian 1970′s time warp complete with a swingers disco [...]
Hazmat Modine in Moscow
After getting up at 4:30 a.m. we arrived in Moscow and went to the hotel, which is about five minutes from Red Square.
Jiang Zemin Dead or Alive?
Rumors started swirling when the 84-year-old Jiang did not show up for the Communist Party’s 90th anniversary gala on July 1st.
Holding Back the Gobi
Few places in the world are feeling the effects of global warming as powerfully as Mongolia, the almond shaped country between northern China and Siberia.
Hazmat Modine in Kiev with Albert Kuvezin
We arrived at the festival in Kiev after getting up at 3:30 a.m., taking the two flights from Kazan. It was sort of a Ukrainian patriotic festival on a beautiful hilltop above the town.
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