Irregular quote of the day

Rory Medcalf, Lowy Institute Program Director, Australia India Institute Associate Director in “Defence White Paper 2013: Treading water in the Indo-Pacific.”

Irregular quote of the day

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in ”U.S. Advice to Europe Gets Polite Refusal.”

Irregular quote of the day

Danish director Bille August in “It’s Time for Oscar to Rethink Its Approach to Foreign-Language Films.”

U.S. growth is tepid, but it’s the envy of Europe

By Daniel Gros, director of the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels.

China keeps quiet about Central Committee session

By Patrick Chovanec, an associate professor at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.

U.N. rights chief urges ‘immediate’ international steps to protect Syrians

By Navi Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Iceland’s president welcomes Chinese interest

By Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Iceland’s President.

Julian Assange: The man who came to dinner, the man who saved Egypt

By Dan Murphy,  Editor/Writer of the CSM Backchannels blog.

Election season comes early in the Kremlin

By Tina Burrett, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Temple University, Japan

Nervous Iraqis buying more assault rifles, pistols

By Iraqi weapons dealer.