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Statues of Chiang Kai-shek dot a mountainside park in Tashi, northeastern Taiwan.
Focus

China warms up to General Cash-My-Cheque

Decades after his death, Mao's great adversary Chiang Kai-shek is starting to get a little respect

People who are for and against health care reform demonstrate before the arrival of President Barack Obama at St. Charles High School in St. Charles, Mo., on Wednesday.
Konrad Yakabuski in D.C.

Obama prepares for a showdown on health care

This time, the President acts as if he has set a deadline he can believe in

Zhou Yang won the gold medal for the women's 1500-metre short track skating competition at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
Mark MacKinnon in China

A word of advice to China’s athletes: Thank your nation

Chinese rally around gold-medal speedskater after she is criticized for overlooking the system that trained her

Dr. Philip Berger, second from left, and Sister Christa Mary Jones, part of the Ontario Hospital Association team working at Leribe Hospital in Lesotho in southern Africa, flank their colleague Dr. Limpho Lekena (centre) as they joke with patients outside the Tsepong (Hope) Clinic, where they are treating people living with HIV-AIDS.
Health care

Canadian doctors fear crisis at African AIDS clinic

Dispute in Lesotho threatens to spark public health nightmare with 'far-reaching impact'

Canadian soldiers near the site of an explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Sunday.

Bloodshed in Kandahar is a warning to NATO, Taliban says

With coalition forces planning their next assault, insurgents say they’re ready

Israeli PM regrets row with U.S., but won’t axe Israel’s settlement plans

Netanyahu says contentious, ill-timed announcement was ‘hurtful’ but innocent

Drug violence in Mexico kills 2 Americans with ties to U.S. consolate

Obama ‘outraged’ after drive-by shooting kills 3 in Ciudad Juarez

Iraqi PM’s coalition leads polls after country-wide partial tally

With all provinces reporting early numbers, Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law bloc stays out front

British couple face jail time in Dubai over kiss

Foreigners launch appeal; lawyer says clients’ kiss was friendly, not amorous

Strong 6.4-magnitude quake rocks Indonesia

No danger of widespread tsunami from quake, says Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre

U.S. woman held in Ireland terror plot ‘lost her mind': mom

Paulin-Ramirez talked about Jihad, converted to Islam and withdrew from family, her mother says

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Patrick Martin's Mideast Notebook
Lonely in Mosul

In Iraq's deadliest city, the heavily fortified five-star International hotel has few overnight guests

Geoffrey York's
Africa Diary
The politics of genocide in Rwanda

With an election looming in a few months, Rwanda’s authoritarian government has made an astounding claim: democracy leads directly to genocide

Mark MacKinnon's Points East
Google and China go to war

Stephanie Nolen's Subcontinental
Invoking Indira

Gloria Galloway's Witness: Kandahar
What this woman wants

Gloria Galloway
Focus
Dateline Peking

Fifty years ago, The Globe and Mail became the first Western newspaper to open a bureau in what was then known as Red China.

Chinese paramilitary police officer stands guard in front of Tiananmen gate in Beijing, China, Tuesday.