| War without end in Gaza: Why Israeli army is battling the government Posted: 07 May 2019 01:40 PM PDT ![War without end in Gaza: Why Israeli army is battling the government]( "War without end in Gaza: Why Israeli army is battling the government") It's being described now as Israel's longest war of attrition. Israel and Hamas, the militant Islamic group that has controlled Gaza since 2007, have been locked in conflict, punctuated with outbursts of violence, for more than a decade now. Within 48 hours this weekend, Israeli television reports lurched from updates on incoming rocket barrages that kept tens of thousands inside bomb shelters, to images of black smoke floating over the Gaza Strip from retaliatory bombings, to announcements of a cease-fire.
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| Russia’s Venezuela motives: It’s about the US, not Maduro Posted: 07 May 2019 01:25 PM PDT ![Russia's Venezuela motives: It's about the US, not Maduro]( "Russia's Venezuela motives: It's about the US, not Maduro") Many of the hallmarks of a classic great power rivalry between Russia and the United States are on display in Venezuela's ongoing crisis: competing proxy forces on the ground, diplomatic finger-pointing, and starkly divergent visions of world order. In Venezuela, and between the U.S. and Russia generally, there is no sharp ideological divide over world-shaping doctrines like communism versus capitalism. The substantial stake Russia has accumulated in Venezuela over the past two decades has much to do with geopolitical and economic opportunities, but Russian affinity for former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez' Bolivarian Socialism has no part in it.
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| China is awash in dinosaur fossils. But who will dig them up? Posted: 07 May 2019 12:35 PM PDT ![China is awash in dinosaur fossils. But who will dig them up?]( "China is awash in dinosaur fossils. But who will dig them up?") China's most famous paleontologists were accidental scholars. The year Wang Min entered college, in 2005, China was still finding its way onto the dinosaur map. Competition on the national college entrance exam was fierce, Dr. Wang says, and choices were limited for people who scored in his range.
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| Myanmar's surprise turn toward rule of law Posted: 07 May 2019 12:20 PM PDT ![Myanmar's surprise turn toward rule of law]( "Myanmar's surprise turn toward rule of law") After more than 500 days behind bars, two reporters from Reuters news agency who exposed a military massacre in Myanmar in 2017 were given a surprise pardon Tuesday. The two also won a Pulitzer Prize. During their long confinement, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had became symbols of the global cause for press freedom.
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