GlobalPost Reports: Spain's Gay Citizens Are Proud Of Advances But Fear Political Threats
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 Guy Hedgecoe MADRID -- Jose Mantero served as a Roman Catholic priest in rural Spain for 16 years before doing something he says no pries...
Posted 12.18.2011 | Gay Voices
By Nicole Greenfield BUENOS AIRES -- The decision finally came at around 4 a.m., broadcast live to the thousands who had traveled from every...
Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Our mission should be aimed at empowering the Afghans, not overpowering them. And that doesn't mean simply empowering the Afghan military.
Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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...
GlobalPost | Michael Goldfarb | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Michael Goldfarb GlobalPost An excerpt from Michael Goldfarb's new book, "Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolutio...
New York Times | DAVID CARR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
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...
GlobalPost | Jason Overdorf | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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'...
GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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 ...
GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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...
GlobalPost | Pascale Bonnefoy | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
SANTIAGO, Chile -- During Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, political prisoners were held in navy ships and stadiums, in office buildings and police st...
GlobalPost | Caryle Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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...
GlobalPost | Patrick Winn | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
BANGKOK, Thailand -- For Thai teenagers, Japan and Korea emanate all that is hip: candy-colored sneakers, saccharine-sweet pop bands, hair spiked in...
GlobalPost | Anil Mundra | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
BUENOS AIRES -- When Argentines discovered that they had a Holocaust-denying bishop in their midst, the public outcry was forceful and the governmen...
GlobalPost | Gavin Blair | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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...
GlobalPost | Todd Bensman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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...
GlobalPost | Kathleen E. McLaughlin | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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...
GlobalPost.com | Nichole Sobecki | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
ISTANBUL -- A woman in the studio audience stands up and, with the spotlight highlighting her covered head, announces to the crowd that her husband ...
GlobalPost | David Green | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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...
GlobalPost.com | Charlie Devereux | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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...
GlobalPost.com | Shahan Mufti | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Throughout the ages, this ancient Silk Road town near the border of Afghanistan has been the place where the black market thr...
Globalpost | Justin McCurry | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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...
Globalpost | Theodore May | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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...
GlobalPost.com | Jean MacKenzie | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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...
GlobalPost.com | C.M. Sennott | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Four-star General David H. Petraeus, the chief of U.S. Central Command, performed the coin toss before kickoff at the Super Bowl. And there couldn...
GlobalPost.com | Thanassis Cambanis | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
AYTA AL SHAAB, Lebanon -- The hue and furor over the humanitarian cost of the Gaza conflict have obscured the matter on which Israel's campaign agai...
Posted 12.27.2011 | Gay Voices