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Cold winds carry lead-filled dust from a nearby slagheap, a hundred million tonnes of toxic tailings, and scatter it on clothes hanging from laundry lines, on open buckets of drinking water, on the dirt children play in, and on the feral...

The West African team—and Africa—is out of the World Cup. But watch out for Africa come 2014.

Islamabad, January–February 2010

The Western diplomat cuts two lines of cocaine on his iPhone and snorts them with a 100 rupee bill.

“Pure Colombian,” he says. “Don’t be shy.”

I shake my head.

“A bit of jet lag I expect?” he says glancing...

There’s no official game clock, no extra information about the team or its squads. The players get the game time from coaches on the sidelines.

We have word from Mohammad Reza Jalaeipour’s family within Iran that he is alive but again being held in solitary confinement at Evin Prison in Tehran.

[Editor’s Note: One year ago today, Iason Athanasiadis became the only foreign journalist to be detained during Iran’s post-election unrest. He writes here, in the first installment of this account, about the weeks he spent inside and...

The husband of one of our contributors has been arrested by Iranian security forces.

“My head says Brazil, my heart says Argentina, but my money’s on Germany.” The international game’s quadrennial competition is underway.

As recently as 2005, Camp Bondsteel was purported to be a secret interrogation site for the American military. So why does predominantly Muslim Kosovo love it so much?

[caption id=”attachment_938” align=”alignnone” width=”500” caption=”Samaritans perform their traditional slaughter of the Passover sacrifice ceremony at Mount Gerizim, north of the West Bank town of Nablus.”] [/caption]

Photographs by Ammar...