Time Magazine International Edition February 5, 2018

YEAR ONE YOUR ARTICLES ABOUT Donald Trump’s first year in office are spot-on [Jan. 22]. At this point, I think most of the world would agree that Trump is not the right man for the job, though he is probably too delusional to see the embarrassing situation himself. I am sure most people want America to be great again, and it will be, but it needs someone else to take the helm—soon! Lars Hee, COPENHAGEN FOR THE MEDIA, TRUMP APpears to be the perfect subject matter for superlative storytelling with ridicule and revenge. Yet Trump’s tenacity ought to be commended. He remains clear and vocal about several issues he promised to tackle, like taxes and immigration. Yes, Trump has made outrageous remarks not suitable to define his post and stature.…

More than 150 women confronted Larry Nassar in a sentencing hearing for the former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University doctor, who pleaded guilty to seven counts of criminal sexual conduct. On Jan. 24, he was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison. These are the survivors’ words. ‘I was willing to physically hurt myself to get out of the abuse that I received at the ranch.’ MATTIE LARSON, a 2010 national gymnastics champion, who says she hit her head on purpose to avoid going to a training camp that Nassar attended ‘LITTLE GIRLS DON’T STAY LITTLE FOREVER. THEY GROW INTO STRONG WOMEN WHO RETURN TO DESTROY YOUR WORLD.’ KYLE STEPHENS, whose parents were friends with Nassar; she says he first abused her when she was 6 ‘I will…

AS THE FIRST GOVERNMENT shutdown since 2013 took hold, liberal activists had one message for Democrats in Congress: hold the line. For months, they had pressured lawmakers to reject any Republican plan to pay for the operations of the federal government that did not protect immigrants who were illegally brought to the U.S. by their parents as children. Ending the standoff without securing a promise to safeguard the so-called Dreamers “would be the worst-case scenario,” said Ben Wikler, Washington director for the progressive group MoveOn. Activists warned lawmakers of the stakes. “If Democrats blink, then Republicans own them,” said Frank Sharry, director of the pro-immigration-reform group America’s Voice. But blink they did. Less than 72 hours into the shutdown, a majority of Senate Democrats joined their Republican colleagues in a…

Two school shootings in two days Separate shootings at schools in southwestern Kentucky and Italy, Texas, killed two people at each site and wounded many more. The crimes, on Jan. 22 and 23, brought to 11 the number of school shootings in the U.S. in the first 23 days of 2018. Japan avalanche engulfs skiers The sudden eruption of a volcano on Mount Kusatsu-Shirane, in Japan’s Gunma prefecture, triggered an avalanche that killed one person and injured at least a dozen others who became trapped or were hit by falling rocks. Nine of those injured had been at a ski resort near the volcano. Huggies maker cuts thousands of jobs Kimberly-Clark, the maker of Huggies and Kleenex, said on Jan. 23 that it would eliminate up to 5,500 jobs amid…

Tens of thousands of Greek protesters rallied in Thessaloniki on Jan. 21 against the use of “Macedonia” in the name of the neighboring nation officially known as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). The demonstrations came as the two countries begin talks to resolve the long-standing dispute. Here’s more. SIMMERING RESENTMENT The disagreement started nearly 30 years ago, when the former Yugoslav republic declared independence and chose its name. Opponents say it implies a territorial claim over Greece’s northern region, which is also called Macedonia. HARDBALL The issue led Greece to block its neighbor’s attempts to join NATO and the E.U. In 1994, Greece instituted a crippling trade embargo, which was lifted in 1995 after FYROM conceded to amend its constitution and change its national flag. STALEMATE Both governments…

ON JAN. 21, A DELEGATION OF NORTH KOREAN officials arrived in South Korea ahead of the Winter Olympics on a well-publicized visit to inspect the facilities where North Korean athletes will compete. But it was the woman heading the delegation, Hyon Song Wol, who sent local media into a frenzy. KOREAN IDOL Hyon is the front woman in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s handpicked all-female pop group Moranbong Band, known for its Western-style pop songs honoring the Supreme Leader and his regime. In 2013, South Korean media reported that Hyon had been executed following a sex scandal, but she reappeared on Korean television the following year. In October, she was appointed to the powerful Workers’ Party Central Committee. GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS After the historic thaw in relations between the…