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...decades what took Europe centuries. Chaos and contradiction - Kenyans are just as comfortable with cell-phone banking as they are with bartering - might be an indication of a country on the move. Kenya is changing. Last year's violence hastened the emergence of a highly critical civil-society movement which has become a sobering force in Kenyan politics. And even a pessimist would have to admit that the unity government has disbanded the discredited election commission, set up a committee of experts to propose constitutional reform and begun work on reforming constituency boundaries and establishing a truth, justice and reconciliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya's Unfinished Reckoning | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...Korean players vented their frustrations on the Syrian referee, pushing the official to the ground. Irate fans hurled missiles - plastic bottles, mostly - at the Iranian team. The scenes then were broadcast via satellite around the world, giving watchers of the isolated communist state a strange, unprecedented glimpse of what civil disturbance could look like in the hermit kingdom. (See pictures of soccer riots at LIFE.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea Wipes Out Iran (from the World Cup) | 6/7/2009 | See Source »

...even as he spoke, it's clear the world has not learned the lesson. Genocidal killings continue in the Darfur region of Sudan, and a long-running civil war in Sri Lanka recently concluded with the extended shelling of civilian refugee camps. "The world hasn't learned," said Wiesel in a public address before the gates of Buchenwald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama at Buchenwald: A Message to Those Who Forget, or Deny | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...three doctors became the main source of information to the outside world from within the combat zone during the final days of Sri Lanka's decades-long civil war. Because the shrinking war zone was blocked, they were relied on heavily by journalists, relief agencies and others for updates. Many of them felt that the doctors were trustworthy sources: according to ICRC's Zanarelli, the three were from a group "with whom the ICRC had been working to evacuate nearly 14,000 patients and their careers between mid-February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Doctors from Sri Lanka's Combat Zone May Face Jail | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims." And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, served in government, stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our Universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full Text: President Barack Obama's Speech to the Muslim World | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

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