http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/ en-us Copyright 2009 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:42:45 -0500 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:43:23 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=1.53 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Like many roads in Lima, Avenida Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, in the Ate district, can be treacherous for bikers. (Photo by Simon McGrath) Brandon Quinn, an undergraduate at Boston College, is taking a semester off to work... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/11/post_10.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/11/post_10.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:42:45 -0500 Students in Grahamstown township. (Photos by Matt Kellen) Elizabeth O’Killea Haney, a Boston College junior, is living in Grahamstown, South Africa, where she is studying history at Rhodes University. By Elizabeth O'Killea Haney GRAHAMSTOWN, South Africa -- The education... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/10/_by_elizabeth_o.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/10/_by_elizabeth_o.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:03:07 -0500 Grahamstown township is desperately poor, with hundreds of shacks made from sheets of corrugated iron. Residents often don’t have running water or electricity. (Photos by Elizabeth O’Killea Haney) Elizabeth O’Killea Haney, a Boston College junior, is living in Grahamstown,... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/09/in_south_africa.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/09/in_south_africa.html Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:51:53 -0500 A gun shot in the window glass is often overlooked at Leopold's cafe as a reminder of the terrorist attack that struck Mumbai almost 10 months ago. (Photo by Puneet Sandhu) Puneet Sandhu, a student of public relations at... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/09/_by_pundeet_san.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/09/_by_pundeet_san.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:37:26 -0500 Ethiopian women and girls filled 40-pound water jugs to carry home. Click here for more sights from the nation's southern region by photographer Eva-Lotta Jansson and text by Anna Kramer, both of Oxfam America. Cambridge resident Anna Kramer is... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/09/in_ethiopia_mai.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/09/in_ethiopia_mai.html Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:38:28 -0500 Turkish-born Pelin Kivrak, a Harvard University junior studying literature, recently returned from Istanbul, where she was a reporting intern for various magazine. By Pelin Kivrak ISTANBUL – It was an unbearably hot Monday afternoon. I was on a bus along... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/09/_turkishborn_pe.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/09/_turkishborn_pe.html Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:58:30 -0500 Khalida Safi Salesh, a refugee from Iraq, takes out a tray of king kebab in her apartment in Cairo. (Photo by Lily Sussman) By Lily Sussman CAIRO -- I arrive at Khalida Safi Salesh’s flat around 1 p.m. Plenty... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/09/cooking_kindnes.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/09/cooking_kindnes.html Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:31:06 -0500 A bus in downtown Cairo near Ramsis Station. (Photos by Lily Sussman) People tried to board a microbus in the 6th of October area outside Cairo. Lily Sussman, an undergraduate student at Northeastern University, is working at the Resettlement... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/_by_lily_sussma.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/_by_lily_sussma.html Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:57:23 -0500 (Ghani campaign photo) Lael H. Adams, a Boston University student working as an intern this summer for the Afghan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation, sought answers from Ashraf Ghani (above), one of the top contenders in the presidential elections to... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/voices_from_an_afghan_contender_--_and_his_team.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/voices_from_an_afghan_contender_--_and_his_team.html Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:27:31 -0500 Allegations of rape, torture, murder, and even genocide reach the International Criminal Court by referral from one of its 110 member countries or the UN Security Council. (Photos by Andrew Tarsy) Andrew Tarsy lives in Boston. He recently served... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/up_close_in_hag.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/up_close_in_hag.html Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:56:17 -0500 A staff member stood watch at the Children's Railway station in Minsk. The atmosphere is always festive in the train cars. (Photos by Steve Vincent) Steve Vincent, a former computer consultant from Boston, recently returned from studying Russian in... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/_a_staff_member.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/_a_staff_member.html Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:59:34 -0500 In India, we play bumper cars -- amusement parks are irrelevant. These sepia-tone photos weren't taken decades ago. Here, dying clunkers still share the roads with rickshaws. (Photos by Mudra Mukesh) Excuse me, sir, but there is no HOV lane.... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/delhi_drivers_p.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/delhi_drivers_p.html Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:33:10 -0500 Savings group members discuss potential projects for generating income in the tiny village of Sanagiwe, Tanzania. (Photo by Sterling Roop) Sterling Roop, a resident of Brighton, is a graduate student in international relations and African studies at Boston University.... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/small_loans_big.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/small_loans_big.html Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:35:44 -0500 Matchbox houses composed from corrugated metal, scrap wood, cardboard, and sometimes cement similar to these shacks in the Kliptown community south of Johannesburg make up the hundreds of neglected squatter camps and informal settlements that more than 1 million... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/_by_olesia_plok.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/_by_olesia_plok.html Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:25:46 -0500 Commuting each day in Kabul, Afghanistan (left), offers reminders of the violence this historic city has endured over the many years -- bullet-pocked walls, bombed-out buildings, abandoned bits of Soviet military equipment. Below, Afghans have a picnic at Salang,... http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/_by_lael_adams.html http://www.boston.com/news/world/blog/2009/08/_by_lael_adams.html Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:34:10 -0500