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By a crackling fire place in the elegant Brattle Street, Cambridge home of the French Consul General, the Ambassador carefully sipped his cafe noir in the cold morning light. Pierre Vimont, French Ambassador to the United States, sat down with GlobalPost ...Read More

With the first stroke of his presidential pen, President Barack Obama began to rewrite the book on how the US will confront terrorism going forward. He signed the executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year ...Read More

Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America, and ascends to what is truly the first global presidency. And in one of the more powerful moments of the speech, he spoke directly to ...Read More

As Barack Hussein Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America, he will ascend to what is truly the first global presidency. And so today will mark the first truly global inauguration with an estimated ...Read More

This is GroundTruth. This is what it is all about. GlobalPost's Egypt correspondent, Theo May, finally landed inside Gaza. Using his Blackberry to file because he couldn't get any internet connection through his laptop, he has just filed a riveting ...Read More

GlobalPost's greatest asset is the incredible writing and reporting talent that we have in the field. And you can, of course, read these well-reported, well-written stories, or Dispatches as we call them, on our site. But you can ...Read More

This is another great day for GlobalPost getting out the word about who we are. We had a story promoted on the frontpage of the Wall Street Journal that broke news about our syndication partnership with the Daily News, New ...Read More

We are at the end of day two of GlobalPost. The overwhelming support for our mission to redefine international news in the digital age has been thrilling. Thank you to everyone for all of the great messages and encouragement. They ...Read More

GlobalPost has launched. We are live! It's the end of the first day and it's grown quiet again here at GlobalPost headquarters here in Boston after a day of hard work and some celebration. There are sticky Champagne stains on the conference ...Read More

The hour is upon us. At the stroke of midnight, we officially launch. Welcome to GlobalPost. And welcome to GroundTruth. This blog is a place where you can come every day to be taken behind the scenes of GlobalPost and hear about what ...Read More