Day after encampment sweep, refugees return to central Paris
Thirty-four hours after police evacuated a migrant encampment in central Paris, refugees were slowly trickling back to the rough street community that was their home.
Lost at sea: Latest count of refugees missing or feared dead crossing the Mediterranean
By Léa Moukanas GSS Correspondent PARIS — Bodies on a beach, frantic faces in a crowd, tired eyes of travelers who hope for an end to their journeys but may get none. Children and their families who are migrating from…
OPINION: Brussels, Paris not the only victims of ISIS violence — #PrayForTheWorld
By Ana Madero GSS Correspondent PARIS — As the sun sets here, the Eiffel Tower, instead of shining its usual yellow, reflects the black, yellow and red of the Belgian flag. No stranger to tragedy, Paris will no doubt serve as…
OPINION: Compassion, not numbness or fear, must answer #JeSuisBrussels
By Megumi Sano GSS Correspondent LONDON — It was just another English class, 3rd period on a Tuesday, when I read these lines from "Hamlet," in which King Claudius ponders what he has done by murdering his brother: "In the…
Students express hopes for peace in wake of Paris terror attacks
As the world gathers for the COP21 climate change conference in France, students at the American School of Paris gathered on campus to express hopes for peace in the wake of terror attacks that hit their city on Nov. 13.…
Editorial: In wake of Paris attacks, we will report
PARIS — Friday, Nov. 13 was a very long night, for all of us as journalists, but also as Parisians, as we stood witness to atrocities our city has never suffered. This morning, we wake up to a changed city,…
Q&A: Writing about “a part of the world that nobody understands”
Noah Sneider, 23, is a freelance foreign correspondent based in Kiev, Ukraine. A former student journalist at Palo Alto High School, he graduated in 2013 from Pomona College in Claremont, California. Sneider’s articles on political and social issues have been featured in The Economist and…
Explainer: Ukraine, an ethnic, geographic and cultural quarrel that just won’t end
The devastation of Kiev's Maidan Square, where protesters demonstrated against new laws passed by the Ukrainian parliament in 2014 limiting freedom of speech and assembly, and pushed for greater ties between the Ukraine and Russia, is a stark reminder of…
A city square, a global conflict
Maidan Nezalezhnosti — the Ukraine's "Independence Square," the heart of Kiev and the focus of protests beginning in November 2013 and ending in February 2014 — was the focus of two of Sequoia's student groups. A website created by one…