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Living in Lebanon is like watching a dramatic thriller unfold…

...if you’re indigenous…

There is a little hole on the wall of every office, restaurant, reception area, hotel lobby, shop – even in the humblest of the living rooms – which serves as a formidable metaphor for the vicissitudes of power, prestige and privilege in Brunei.…

When new Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer moved into Antigua’s government offices in 2004, his predecessors had bequeathed him a scene of desolation…

Iran - the facts…

In October 2006, Thailand expanded its list of tourist attractions with one of the world’s most laid-back military coups…

Tourism of the more adventurous kind is increasingly common in Uganda – tracking mountain gorillas, or rafting on the Nile, but to many outsiders Uganda’s claim to fame is still little more than Idi Amin, the jovial but brutal dictator.…

If people in the rich world associate Benin with anything at all, it is likely to be child trafficking, slavery or voodoo – not exactly the ideal calling cards for a nation…

Gabon is a good example of why judging how well a country is doing by _per-capita_ income is just useless…

The recent progress of the Bolivarian Revolution is difficult to chart, in part because the least unreliable statistics – those published by the UN^1^ – have yet to reach beyond 2003…