by VivienneWalt | May 1, 2016 | Articles, Featured Article, Middle East
By Vivienne Walt ~ TEHRAN The sun is streaming through the windows of a loft-like office where a half-dozen young tech entrepreneurs huddle over their MacBooks in sweatshirts and sneakers. They’re putting the finishing touches to PowerPoint presentations in...
by VivienneWalt | Apr 18, 2016 | Articles, Europe, Featured Article
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS Friday, November 13, 2015 was a strangely balmy night in Paris, the kind that makes visitors fall in love with the city. People spilled out of the cafés, winding down the workweek over glasses of wine, their chatter and laughter creating a...
by VivienneWalt | Apr 8, 2016 | Articles, Europe
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS Belgian police on Friday arrested the two only attackers believed to have survived last month’s bombings in Brussels and the killings in Paris last November, in a major advance toward smashing the terror network that has left Europe reeling...
by VivienneWalt | Mar 25, 2016 | Articles, Europe
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS With Belgian officials struggling to explain how they missed crucial information leading up to Tuesday’s devastating Brussels bombings, local police in the northern Belgian city of Mechelen admitted on Friday that as far back as December, they...
by VivienneWalt | Mar 23, 2016 | Articles, Europe
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS Just three days ago, Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders issued a chilling warning: Salah Abdeslam, the only alleged perpetrator of last November’s Paris attacks believed to be still alive and at large, had been primed to launch an attack...
by VivienneWalt | Mar 23, 2016 | Articles, Europe
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS With Belgians reeling in shock from Tuesday’s deadly suicide bombings in the capital Brussels, officials said several suspects were still the run, and that they were far from cracking the jihadist network behind the attacks. “There are still a...
