- The finance minister of Greek and Germany could not even agree on what they disagreed in comments that show Athens and Berlin are as far apart as ever on how to refinance Greece’s bailout
- Truth can be stranger than fiction. The mysterious death of a public prosecutor in Argentina who was set to accuse the country’s president of a terror attack cover-up has proved the wisdom of this proverb
- The latest twist in the Petrobras scandal serves as a reminder of the company’s two faces: on a technical level, a Brazilian champion, but at the corporate level, a national catastrophe
- Beheadings, forced marriage and slavery: refugees tells of death and horror under Boko Haram (NYT)
- A shortage of medical supplies has directly resulted in the death of 14 people, say doctors in Venezuela, where the economic crisis is increasingly affecting daily life (The Telegraph)
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Smart Reads 6 February 2015
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