It was a good week for women in Japan, with the country’s first female Defence Minister (2007), Yuriko Koike, breaking through another glass ceiling to become the first female governor of Tokyo—despite sharp opposition from …
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The Beat Cracking down on corruption Transparency International UK recently estimated that the amount of corrupt wealth being laundered through the UK annually is at least in the hundreds of millions of pounds—if not billions. …
The Beat In depth: Dallas shootings In the US last week, two men were shot and killed by police officers—both victims were African American and both had their last moments caught on camera, and subsequently …
The Beat Let’s talk about drugs The AFP announced last week that a Joint Organised Crime Task Force operation in Western Australia had resulted in charges being laid against 14 people and the seizure of …
Barack Obama will today make history as the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima. The Atlantic has two photo essays: one looking at the modern city of Hiroshima and A-bomb survivors today; another juxtaposing …