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...That last comment might help explain why Obama has opted to deliver his key Africa speech to Ghana's Parliament rather than to a public crowd, which would probably have drawn huge numbers. The news site Politico last weekend speculated that Obama - or his security detail - may also want to avoid the kind of bedlam that greeted Bill Clinton's visit to Accra in 1998, when he was nearly crushed by a crowd that numbered in the hundreds of thousands. On that day, as people surged toward the stage, the visibly terrified Clinton shouted, "Get back! Get back!" (Read "Into...
...when he arrived at my New Jersey home last month, I was appalled at how he seemed to cling onto me when we hugged, seeking out my shoulders and back like a blind man. He was thinner, the lines around the edges of his mouth tightly drawn and determined southwards. Offering my consolations months after we had all attended the funeral seemed void of sincerity, and I wanted, so badly, to give him more than my sympathy. I wanted him to feel, despite the death of a woman he had served with patience and grace for more than half...
...with the sound of charging bulls. The weeklong annual celebration originated as a religious festival to honor St. Fermin, the patron saint of this small city in Spain's northern Basque region. Today the festival attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world, many of whom are drawn to its world-famous encierro, or running of the bulls, which begins July 7 and was made famous outside Spain by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 classic The Sun Also Rises...
...Germany's Afghan campaign is the subject of heated debate. Over the past few months, Germany, which usually restricts its troops to peacekeeping and reconstruction efforts, has found itself drawn into a bloody conflict. In the most recent reminder of how dangerous the mission has become, a memorial service was held in the central town of Bad Salzungen on Thursday for three young soldiers killed in an attack near Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, on June 23. They were the latest casualties of a war that has claimed the lives of 35 German soldiers. At the memorial, senior Cabinet ministers went...
...German Institute for International and Security Affairs, tells TIME. "We've seen a growing number of attacks on German troops in Afghanistan," he says, including January's suicide bombing near the German embassy in Kabul. Steinberg, a former government adviser on terrorism, says there are lessons to be drawn from the 2004 Madrid commuter-train bombings that killed 191 people. "The attacks took place before the elections, with the aim of influencing the outcome of the vote, so that Spain would pull its troops out of Iraq," he says. And Spain eventually did. "For al-Qaeda, it would be ideal...