In a significant move to strengthen international ties and foster development, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) co-hosted a conference with the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center, welcoming a delegation from Khanh Hoa province, led by HE Nguyen Hai Ninh,...
This article was originally published in CBS News. In an era where the answers to the most random questions — like the indoor land speed record or the Earth's weight — are just a few clicks away, we often take for granted the colossal network that makes it all...
View of the Acropolis, in Athens. Greek lawmakers voted July 21 to lower the voting age to 17 from 18 and eventually eliminate a 50-seat bonus for the winning party. The drop in voting age will take effect in the next election, but the seat bonus will end two...
Nigeria's oil wealth has been more of a curse than a blessing. Meanwhile, "Avengers'' who complain that people in the Niger River Delta have not received their fair share of oil revenues in this astonishingly corrupt nation step up their daily damage to oil-industry...
Thousands of Chinese executives have been moving to the U.S. to work for formerly American companies bought by Chinese firms. "We've seen a huge surge," Bernard Wolfsdorf, founder and managing partner of a U.S.-based immigration law firm, told CNN. "Chinese...
America's NATO allies, already dealing with an aggressive Russia, the rise of nativist populism and the possible effects of Brexit, became even more worried this week when they read Donald J. Trump say that the United States might not come to the defense of NATO...
Libya’s U.N.-backed government has denounced France for sending troops into eastern Libya, declaring it a violation of Libyan sovereignty. The French sent in the troops to fight the Islamic State, whose followers have been murdering French people in large...
French officials now say that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the Tunisian who murdered 84 people in Nice, had accomplices in preparing his assault. The Wall Street Journal reports: "The new evidence appears to contradict claims made by top French officials immediately...