http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/feed.rss.xml feed http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/16/what-remains-most-frightening-is-the-fragility-of-the-markets-and-the-obsession-with-impending-doom-that-lens-is-as-distorted-as-the-pollyannaish-mantras-of-the-1990s Zachary Karabell says we should be wary of Greek dominos falling, but the global obsession is overblown. world Wed, 16 May 2012 08:45:00 GMT Zachary Karabell /content/dailybeast/articles/2012/05/16/what-remains-most-frightening-is-the-fragility-of-the-markets-and-the-obsession-with-impending-doom-that-lens-is-as-distorted-as-the-pollyannaish-mantras-of-the-1990s Lousia Gouliamaki, AFP / Getty Images A man wrapped in a Greek flag stands in front of advancing riot policemen during a protest near the Greek parliament and Athen's Syntagma square on April 5, 2012, held in reaction to the suicide of an elderly debt-ridden Greek man. An elderly man shot himself in the head on April 4 in Athens' central Syntagma Square, a focal point of anti-austerity protests, reportedly crying out that he did not want to leave his children in debt. Police said the 77-year-old, whose identity was not revealed, killed himself outside the Syntagma metro station, around 100 metres (yards) from parliament, which for two years has been the main rallying point for demonstrations against government austerity measures. AFP PHOTO/ LOUISA GOULIAMAKI (Photo credit should read LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/16/italian-police-open-a-mobster-s-vatican-owned-tomb-in-search-of-a-missing-girl Searching for a teenager missing for three decades, Italian police open a mobster’s crypt, Barbie Latza Nadeau reports. world Wed, 16 May 2012 08:45:00 GMT Barbie Latza Nadeau /content/dailybeast/articles/2012/05/16/italian-police-open-a-mobster-s-vatican-owned-tomb-in-search-of-a-missing-girl Angelo Carconi / AP Photo Forensic police officers work in the courtyard of Sant' Apollinare Basilica, in Rome, Monday, May 14, 2012. Forensic police swarmed the crypt the basilica to exhume the body of reputed mobster Enrico De Pedis as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee, Emanuela Orlandi. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/16/carlos-fuentes-mexico-s-universal-man-of-letters-dies-at-83 Celebrated writer and leftist Carlos Fuentes, who died Tuesday, was a polyglot man of letters and a ‘totally political animal,’ says Mac Margolis. world Wed, 16 May 2012 08:45:00 GMT Mac Margolis /content/dailybeast/articles/2012/05/16/carlos-fuentes-mexico-s-universal-man-of-letters-dies-at-83 Alfredo Estrella / AFP-Getty Images (FILE) Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes takes part in a tribute to Mexican writer and anthropologist Fernando Benitez (1912-2000) at the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico City, on December 18, 2011. Mexican Carlos Fuentes died on May 15, 2012 informed Mexican President Felipe Calderon. He was 83. AFP PHOTO/Alfredo Estrella (Photo credit should read ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/GettyImages) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/15/francois-hollande-sworn-in-as-french-president At his inauguration, François Hollande said au revoir to former president Sarkozy. By Tracy McNicoll. world Tue, 15 May 2012 16:05:00 GMT Tracy McNicoll /content/dailybeast/articles/2012/05/15/francois-hollande-sworn-in-as-french-president Christophe Ena / AP Photo French President-elect Francois Hollande, waves after delivering a speech during the Socialist Party's national council, in Paris, Monday, May 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/15/vatican-investigating-girl-scouts-for-links-to-safe-sex-education-groups The Vatican is investigating the Girl Scouts for their ties to nonprofits, writes Barbie Latza Nadeau. world Tue, 15 May 2012 14:35:00 GMT Barbie Latza Nadeau /content/dailybeast/articles/2012/05/15/vatican-investigating-girl-scouts-for-links-to-safe-sex-education-groups Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Photo First lady Michelle Obama plants mustard seedlings with Girl Scouts, from second from left, Emma Vonderlinn, Emily Burnham, and Gia Muto, all from Fairport, N.Y. during a spring planting of the White House kitchen garden, Monday, March 26, 2012, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/15/rebekah-brooks-charged-in-phone-hacking-scandal The former Queen of Fleet Street was charged with ‘perverting the course of justice.’ By Peter Jukes. world Tue, 15 May 2012 10:53:00 GMT Peter Jukes /content/dailybeast/articles/2012/05/15/rebekah-brooks-charged-in-phone-hacking-scandal Dan Kitwood / Getty Images LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 11: Former Chief Executive of News International Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie Brooks leave the high court after Mrs Brooks gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry on May 11, 2012 in London, England. Mrs Brooks, the former Chief Executive of News International and editor of the Sun and News of the World newspapers, was questioned about her alleged close links with Prime Minister David Cameron, when she gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry today. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/15/dutch-advice-to-obama-on-same-sex-marriage Nadette De Visser on what a decade of same-sex marriage in the Netherlands can teach the U.S. world Tue, 15 May 2012 08:45:00 GMT Nadette De Visser /content/dailybeast/articles/2012/05/15/dutch-advice-to-obama-on-same-sex-marriage Bas Czerwinski / AP Photo Patrick Decker of the U.S. left, and his Dutch partner Stephan Hengst, right, are seen during a wedding ceremony on a boat at the Gay Pride canal parade in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009. Job Cohen presides over the weddings of five American-Dutch gay couples on a boat at the city's Gay Pride festival. The ceremonies were held in Amsterdam as part of celebrations of the 400th anniversary of ties between the Netherlands and New York. ( http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/13/al-qaeda-s-body-bombs-al-asiri-s-next-threat Forget underpants. Al Qaeda’s diabolical new plan. world Mon, 14 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT Daniel Klaidman, Christopher Dickey /content/newsweek/2012/05/13/al-qaeda-s-body-bombs-al-asiri-s-next-threat From left: Phil Nobl; Saudi Interior Ministry / Reuters-Landov (2) http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/13/russia-s-dzyadko-brothers-lead-the-opposition Meet the family leading Russia’s opposition. world Mon, 14 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT Anna Nemtsova /content/newsweek/2012/05/13/russia-s-dzyadko-brothers-lead-the-opposition NWK Caption: Dzyadko brothers -- IPTC Caption: NO CREDIT http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/13/niall-ferguson-will-europe-act-to-avoid-an-economic-cataclysm Will the continent act to avert an economic cataclysm? world Mon, 14 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT Niall Ferguson /content/newsweek/2012/05/13/niall-ferguson-will-europe-act-to-avoid-an-economic-cataclysm Carlo Hermann / AFP-Getty Images A crib figurine depicting newly-elected French President Francois Hollande (R) holding a France's flag stands by figurines of outgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) and wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy holding a suitcase in a shop of Via San Gregorio Armeno in Naples where nativity scenes craftmen have their workshops on May 10, 2012. AFP PHOTO / CARLO HERMANN (Photo credit should read CARLO HERMANN/AFP/GettyImages) http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/13/the-lost-children-of-nuba A refugee camp in South Sudan overflows with orphans fleeing bombs and starvation. world Mon, 14 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT Trevor Snapp /content/newsweek/2012/05/13/the-lost-children-of-nuba Trevor Snapp / Pulitzer Center for Newsweek NWK Caption: Unaccompanied minors at the Yida refugee camp. The Lost boys of Sudan may be the best known example of the horror of Sudan s civil war, a conflict that was supposed to end with the independence of the South last July. Countless South Sudanese boys were forced to flee, separated from their families, walking for days and weeks across hostile lands to the relative safety of a refugee camp. Many died on the way. .Now, this story is repeating itself as thousands of children, separated from their families by constant bombardment, starvation and battles are fleeing the same unresolved conflict, this time in the Nuba mountains of Sudan, where the Khartoum government has been at war with it s own people for over a year. The Sudan government s endless bombing campaigns of civilian targets like schools, churches, markets and boreholes has divided up families and separated children from their parents, and orphaned others..Over 3000 of these children have ended up at the Yida refugee camp, a controversial refuges for the Nuban people close to the North South border that the UN refuses to recognize as a camp for fear of being seen as supporting the rebels. The children have horrific stories. 20 year old John first lost his family in a bombing, he then lost his two younger brothers to starvation, without even the energy to bury them, he walked south for days until he arrived in Yida. 12 year old Rose fled with her entire boarding school after it was bombed and many of here fellow students and teachers killed. Robert watched -- IPTC Caption: Unaccompanied minors at the Yida refugee camp. The Lost boys of Sudan may be the best known example of the horror of Sudan s civil war, a conflict that was supposed to end with the independence of the South last July. Countless South Sudanese boys were forced to flee, separated from their families, walking for days and weeks across hostile lands to the relative safety of a refugee camp. Many died on the way. .Now, this story is repeating itself as thousands of children, separated from their families by constant bombardment, starvation and battles are fleeing the same unresolved conflict, this time in the Nuba mountains of Sudan, where the Khartoum government has been at war with it s own people for over a year. The Sudan government s endless bombing campaigns of civilian targets like schools, churches, markets and boreholes has divided up families and separated children from their parents, and orphaned others..Over 3000 of these children have ended up at the Yida refugee camp, a controversial refuges for the Nuban people close to the North South border that the UN refuses to recognize as a camp for fear of being seen as supporting the rebels. The children have horrific stories. 20 year old John first lost his family in a bombing, he then lost his two younger brothers to starvation, without even the energy to bury them, he walked south for days until he arrived in Yida. 12 year old Rose fled with her entire boarding school after it was bombed and many of here fellow students and teachers killed. Robert watched his family stoned to death after a desperate group of refugees was ambushed by a Northern militia on the border..A few volunteer caretakers and teachers tend to the children. 22 year old Jamina who was separated from her own mother for 11 years during the last war. Today she watches over 500 girls in the same position. Packed into grass huts they built themselves the children try to study, and play and forget the past. The only way to stop this war is eductio http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/13/pakistan-top-judges-attack-p-m-gilani-with-poetry-and-threats The Supreme Court calls for an “Arab Spring” uprising. world Mon, 14 May 2012 05:00:00 GMT Fasih Ahmed, Shehrbano Taseer /content/newsweek/2012/05/13/pakistan-top-judges-attack-p-m-gilani-with-poetry-and-threats Illustration by Thomas Kuhlenbeck NWK Caption: -- IPTC Caption: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/13/innumerate-indians-irreverent-thais <b>Dissident U</b> world Mon, 14 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT Tunku Varadarajan /content/newsweek/2012/05/13/innumerate-indians-irreverent-thais Supporters of Chen Guangcheng-AP NWK Caption: FILE - In this undated photo released by supporters of Chen Guangcheng, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, center, is seen in a village in China. Guangcheng says a U.S. official told him that Chinese authorities threatened to beat his wife to death had be not left the American Embassy. Speaking by phone from his hospital room in Beijing on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, a shaken Chen told The Associated Press that U.S. officials relayed the threat from the Chinese side. Chen, who fled to the embassy six day ago, left under an agreement in which he would receive medical care, be reunited with his family and allowed to attend university in a safe place. He says he now fears for his safety and wants to leave. (AP Photo/Supporters of Chen Guangcheng, HO) -- IPTC Caption: FILE - In this undated photo released by supporters of Chen Guangcheng, blind activist Chen Guangcheng, center, is seen in a village in China. Guangcheng says a U.S. official told him that Chinese authorities threatened to beat his wife to death had be not left the American Embassy. Speaking by phone from his hospital room in Beijing on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, a shaken Chen told The Associated Press that U.S. officials relayed the threat from the Chinese side. Chen, who fled to the embassy six day ago, left under an agreement in which he would receive medical care, be reunited with his family and allowed to attend university in a safe place. He says he now fears for his safety and wants to leave. (AP Photo/Supporters of Chen Guangcheng, HO) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/13/the-drug-war-at-sea-rise-of-the-narco-subs Over the past five years, drug cartels have increasingly been shipping cocaine by way of hard-to-detect semi-submersible vessels. And the next generation of narco subs may be even harder to spot. world Sun, 13 May 2012 08:45:00 GMT Avi Jorisch /content/dailybeast/articles/2012/05/13/the-drug-war-at-sea-rise-of-the-narco-subs Luis Robayo, AFP / Getty Images Colombian soldiers guard a homemade submersible in a rural area of Timbiqui, department of Cauca, Colombia, on February 14, 2011. A submersible with a capacity to transport up to 8 tons of cocaine with a sailing range from Colombia to Mexico was found on the southwestern coast of the Colombian Pacific Ocean, the Colombian Army said. AFP PHOTO/Luis Robayo (Photo credit should read LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/13/federal-courts-reject-virtually-all-habeas-petitions-from-gitmo-study A new study suggests that the federal courts have stopped granting habeas corpus petitions from Guantanamo detainees, writes Clive Stafford Smith. world Sun, 13 May 2012 08:45:00 GMT Clive Stafford-Smith /content/dailybeast/articles/2012/05/13/federal-courts-reject-virtually-all-habeas-petitions-from-gitmo-study Jim Watson, AFP / Getty Images This image reviewed by the US military shows a guard standing watch with detainees in Cell Block A of the "Camp Six" detention facility of the Joint Detention Group at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, January 19, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Jim WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)