Innholdsfortegnelse for 04/03/2016 i Newsweek International

Columbia, South Carolina—Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush returns to his bus on February 18, two days before suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination after a fourth-place finish in South Carolina’s primary. Despite name recognition and a sizable war chest, Bush failed to mobilize enough support to contend with the GOP front-runners, such as Donald Trump, who won this primary by more than 10 percentage points over his closest competitors. After Bush’s exit, several of his donors pledged to back Florida Senator Marco Rubio, his onetime protégé.…

Ggaba, Uganda—A policeman struggles to keep hold of a ballot box as hundreds of voters who had waited more than seven hours to cast ballots surround him on February 18. President Yoweri Museveni, who has ruled Uganda for 30 years, was declared the winner of the election, but the United States and the European Union criticized the harassment of opposition figures and other problems with the vote. The main opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, who was put under house arrest after the election, called it a sham.…

Junior doctors in England start on a basic salary of a little under £23,000 ($32,900), so you’d think they’d be happy to be offered a pay raise of 13.5 percent. Not so fast. The government wants to change the way overtime is calculated in return, making most hours worked on Saturday normal hours rather than overtime—a move that would leave many of them losing out. Asked to vote on a proposed new contract in November, 98 percent voted to strike. They’ve held two 24-hour stoppages this year, the first strike action by English doctors in 40 years. The latest, on February 10-11, led to the cancellation of 3,000 surgeries. The dispute has cast a spotlight on the way the National Health Service (NHS)—often cited as a source of pride for…

NOT LONG AGO, Lake Habbaniya was a place for weddings and honeymoons, beach parties and family picnics. Just a few hours’ drive west of Baghdad, the lake became a top vacation spot after a luxury resort opened there in 1979, with tennis courts, fairground rides and lush gardens. For several years after the fall of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the resort was used as a refugee shelter, but in 2009 U.S.-led forces helped get it back into the tourism business. As recently as 2012, Jet Skis glided across the shimmering waters of Lake Habbaniya and Iraqi children played barefoot on the beach. That seems hard to imagine now. The once-popular resort is in Iraq’s Sunni Arab heartland: Anbar province, a former Al-Qaeda stronghold. Cities like Fallujah in Anbar were…

PORTLAND, OREGON, home to all things craft and micro, is emerging as the hub of a potential construction revolution that relies on materials from a century ago. Buildings as high as 12 stories made from wood—or, more specifically, multilayered wood panels such as cross-laminated timber engineered from Douglas fir cut down in the state’s forests—are cropping up across the city, with hopes of spurring new projects here and across the country. Erecting tall buildings—normally the domain of steel or concrete—with engineered wood, or “mass timber,” has already been done in Australia and Europe, but this type of construction is nearly nonexistent in the United States. Done right, the buildings are cheaper to build and safer in disasters than steel and concrete ones, proponents say. And despite all the dead trees…

Dunkirk, France—A Kurdish boy looks out the window of a trailer in the Grande-Synthe camp for refugees and migrants in northern France on February 20. The number of residents at the camp has surged recently, boosted by people coming from the nearby camp in Calais known as the “jungle,” where French authorities ordered a partial evacuation. Aid groups have reported appalling conditions at both camps, where thousands of people from the Middle East and Africa take shelter on their way to Britain.…

“WHILE REPUBLICANS WAVE THE CONSTITUTION, MANY OF THEM SEEM TO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE FOUNDERS INTENDED.” AMERICANS no longer deserve America. The Founding Fathers’ experiment in democracy, forged in blood and scholarship, has failed. There is no other way to interpret the obscene debate that has enveloped the country since the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Almost before Scalia’s body went cold, prominent Republicans rushed to proclaim they would never vote to confirm anynominee submitted by President Barack Obama to fill the vacancy. Their declaration stemmed from a bizarre, anti-constitutional argument that a president should be allowed to have any Supreme Court nomination confirmed only during 75 percent of the executive term of office. Make no mistake: That is exactly what the Republicans are saying with their…

SANCTIONS ON IRAN were all about oil, right? Yes, but a little-known fact is that the international sanctions imposed over the past decade to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions had a devastating effect on its second largest export: the iconic Persian rug. Iran is one of the world’s oldest continuous major civilizations, and the Persian carpet tells much of that story, tracing back at least as far as the Bronze Age. It has been infused with magical properties in tales such as One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, celebrated by everyone from Edith Wharton to Sigmund Freud, and has survived centuries of holy wars, colonialism and revolutions. But until January, when President Barack Obama signed an executive order lifting sanctions, all Persian rugs—whether antique or brand-new—were banned from entering the U.S.,…

BY HIS 40S, PREUSS HAD TURNED INTO A CHAIN-SMOKING, CAFFEINE-FIXATED, ALCOHOL-SWIGGING INSOMNIAC. THESE DAYS, if you’re feeling stressed, overweight or desperate to stop smoking and drinking, it’s relatively easy to sort yourself out. All you need is a free week or two and a few thousand dollars to spare. Tick those boxes, and it won’t be long before you’re booked into a spa, where soft-spoken staff will supervise micro meals and schedule exercise classes so that you can go home 5 to 10 pounds lighter. Problem solved—at least in the short term. And if you happen to hit on a spa underpinned by a serious philosophy, you might even end up changing your lifestyle for good. Parkschlösschen, a luxury retreat near Frankfurt, Germany, is just that kind of place. The…

London—Mayor Boris Johnson announces on February 21 that he will campaign for Britain to leave the European Union. Johnson is among the most popular Conservatives in Britain, so his declaration was a blow to Prime Minister David Cameron, who negotiated revised membership terms for Britain in the EU before calling for a referendum to take place on June 23. Polls suggest most Britons would vote to stay in the EU, but the margin is narrowing because of fears about the growing numbers of migrants and refugees, as well as criticism of how Europe has handled that crisis.…

“I WAS A SMALL LAMB IN A WOLF’S DEN, BUT I WAS NOT AFRAID.” AS THE BAND began playing a Latin-style beat, only Sahar Arian’s silhouette was visible to TV audiences across Afghanistan. Slumped onstage, microphone in hand, she began singing cloaked in darkness. “Poets only see my body in a poetic way,” she sang mournfully, in Persian. “When I bared my soul, they laughed at me.” In late January, millions of Afghans watched Arian’s performance on Afghan Star, a wildly popular singing contest modeled on American Idol. As the lights illuminated the 23-year-old singer, one of only two female contestants, it became apparent this wasn’t an ordinary performance. It was a protest. Cloaked in a blue burqa, pulled back to show her face, Arian had smeared on dramatic makeup…

Feral cats roam the deserted, rubble-strewn streets. The rusted skeleton of a burnt-out car sits outside a house used as a bomb factory; inside, the kitchen floor is littered with mortar parts and metal shavings. Almost a month after Iraqi special forces reclaimed Ramadi from the Islamic State militant group, Iraqi troops are still patrolling the streets and clearing booby-trapped buildings. “Real estate office” reads a hand-lettered metal sign featuring the now-familiar logo of ISIS, an organization in retreat in Iraq but far from defeated. The Iraqi special forces officers with whom I’m on patrol fling the sign onto the empty street. In the seven months that it held Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, ISIS financed itself in part by selling off public property, according to residents. In some…

“IT TAKES A SINGLE PIONEER TO ABOLISH DOGMA AND SAVE COUNTLESS LIVES. THIS IS OUR CONTRIBUTION TO MEDICAL SCIENCE.” WHEN SANDRA COHEN was diagnosed with breast cancer, she did whatever she could to avoid chemotherapy. She took homeopathic remedies and herbs, and she changed her diet. She even tried laser therapy. Nothing worked. When she reached Stage IV—the cancer metastasized to her lungs, clavicle bone and lymph nodes—her doctors were shocked. “The doctors here just kind of shook their heads and said, ‘How did you let this go so far?’” she recalls. But she didn’t give up. Instead, she went to Stanislaw Burzynski. As a young doctor in the 1970s, Burzynski began treating patients with antineoplastons, a collection of peptides, amino acids and amino acid derivatives he originally isolated from…