Christiane Amanpour

From Russia, with wig

amanpour.blogs.cnn.com — It's a Cold-War story with a touch of Monty Python. An American man, wearing a blond wig and sunglasses, was detained by the Russian security service on Tuesday and accused of being a spy. Among his possessions was a piece of paper - an open letter allegedly intended for a member of Russian intelligence - pledging $100,000 for "experience, expertise and cooperation."

Former Guantanamo prisoner befriends jailers

amanpour.blogs.cnn.com — Moazzam Begg was taken from his home in the middle of the night. He would not see freedom for more than three years. His captor was the United States Government. He was taken from his home in Pakistan to Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan; soon, he found himself thousands of miles away, at Guantanamo Bay Prison in the Caribbean Sea.

From Russia, with wig

amanpour.blogs.cnn.com — It's a Cold-War story with a touch of Monty Python. An American man, wearing a blond wig and sunglasses, was detained by the Russian security service on Tuesday and accused of being a spy. Among his possessions was a piece of paper - an open letter allegedly intended for a member of Russian intelligence - pledging $100,000 for "experience, expertise and cooperation."

From Russia, with wig

amanpour.blogs.cnn.com — It's a Cold-War story with a touch of Monty Python. An American man, wearing a blond wig and sunglasses, was detained by the Russian security service on Tuesday and accused of being a spy. Among his possessions was a piece of paper - an open letter allegedly intended for a member of Russian intelligence - pledging $100,000 for "experience, expertise and cooperation."

Former Gitmo chief prosecutor to Obama: 'Man up'

amanpour.blogs.cnn.com — By Mick Krever, CNN Hearing Colonel Morris Davis speak, it's easy to forget that he used to be the chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay. "We used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave; we've been the constrained and the cowardly," he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tue...

The New York Review of Books

nybooks.com — Chavismo After Chávez What Venezuelans may remember most about last month's presidential campaign is the moment right at the start, when Nicolás Maduro Moros, the late Hugo Chávez's chosen successor, told a television audience that the supreme comandante had come back to him in the shape of a little bird and, chirping, urged him on to victory.

Bangladesh's prime minister: 'Accidents happen'

amanpour.blogs.cnn.com — By Tom Watkins, CNN Bangladesh's prime minister acknowledged Thursday that her nation's garment industry is beset with problems, but said her government was moving rapidly to fix them. "Bangladesh now is a place for good conditions for the investment," Sheikh Hasina told CNN's Christiane Amanpour eight days after a nine-story building collapsed on the outskirts of Dhaka, killing at least 437 people, most of them garment workers.

Cut and run? Or stay and build Bangladesh?

amanpour.blogs.cnn.com — By Samuel Burke, CNN The Bangladesh factory collapse two weeks ago has, at last count, killed over 1,000 people. The country's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has laid part of the blame for that tragedy on the Western retailers that flock to that country to take advantage of cheap labor.

Major Retailers Join Bangladesh Safety Plan

nytimes.com — Under mounting pressure to improve working conditions in Bangladesh's garment factories, several of the world's largest apparel companies agreed on Monday to a landmark plan to help pay for fire safety and building improvements after the collapse last month of the Rana Plaza factory complex, which killed more than 1,100 people.

Fleeing Bahrain: A blogger's desperate escape

amanpour.blogs.cnn.com — Thor Halvorssen started an idea: "We need to get him out." The target: Bahraini activist Ali Abdulemam, who for years had been in and out of government detention for his reform-agitating website. Halvorssen, founder of the Oslo Freedom Forum, realized that the only way to get Abdulemam out alive would be to smuggle him.