• The BBC notes an attack on a vegan restaurant in Tbilisi by meat-eating nationalists.
• Bloomberg notes a slur by a German populist against a non-white soccer player, reports on Sweden's economic boom, Looks at rail investment in India, and notes Southeast Asia is beating out China as a destination for Japanese investment.
• Bloomberg View looks at ( Read more... )

• Al Jazeera looks at the rejection of political Islam by Tunisia's Ennahda party.
• The Australian Broadcasting Corporation notes the ambition of Zambia to become a major food-exporting country.
• Bloomberg notes the negative impact of booming immigration on the New Zealand economy, observes Ireland's efforts to attract financial jobs from London-based ( Read more... )

Jihen Laghmari and Caroline Alexander's Bloomberg article notes Tunisia's efforts to deal with Islamic State recruits who have returned to their country. I feel a certain, very limited, sympathy for these people. Offering them pathways out may be important, but I do not think these should be easy, if only for the sake of the people they brutalized ( Read more... )

Via Facebook's Stephen comes the Rik Goverde's Middle East Eye report on the history of the Jews of Djerba, a Tunisian island known for its merchant diasporas.

These are busy times for Nissem Bittan, a Jewish jewellery salesman in the heart of the old city of Houmt Souk. Customers keep walking into his shop, which seems to be constructed solely ( Read more... )

• Al Jazeera notes that Tunisia is still on the brink, looks at the good relations between Indians and Pakistanis outside of South Asia, suspects that a largely Armenian-populated area in Georgia might erupt, and reports on satellite imagery of Boko Haram's devastation in Nigeria.
• Bloomberg notes that a North Korean camp survivor caught in lies might ( Read more... )

• Al Jazeera captures the mood of Tunisia on the eve of elections, looks at the sufferings of ISIS' sex slaves, reports on Kenya's harsh response to American criticism of anti-terrorism legislation, and notes that Florida surpasses New York as the United States' third most populous state.
• Bloomberg reports on the absence of well-heeled Russian ( Read more... )

• Al Jazeera notes Syrian refugee resettlement in Germany, the cultural importance of jewelry design to the Navajo, the complicated ethics of separatism in South Yemen, concerns over the Islamic State in the Arab Gulf and in the North Caucasus, a massacre of Christians by Somali militias in northern Kenya, the localization of Google in Irish, and a ( Read more... )

Spiegel International describes the steady progress made by the Islamic State in North Africa. Anarchic Libya and Egypt's unstable Sinai peninsula are particular loci for expansion, while Tunisia is a notable source of manpower.

Chaos, disillusionment and oppression provide the perfect conditions for Islamic State. Currently, the Islamist ( Read more... )

Al Jazeera's Mohammed al-Mukhtar Ahmed notes how in Tunisia, sole liberal survivor of the Arab Spring, the seaside resort community of Sousse has furnished many volunteers for ISIS.

Tunisia has, by some estimates, provided the largest number of foreign fighters in Syria. According to official numbers, up to April 2014, 3,000 Tunisians have joined ( Read more... )

• 80 Beats reports on how the Chukchansi tribe of California has used more than a million dollars' revenue from their on-reserve casinos to try to fund the revival of their language.
• The Burgh Diaspora comments on how Brazil and Mexico, even though they are similar in being upwardly mobile middle-income Latin American democracies, respectively enjoy ( Read more... )