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Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency leaker, defended his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat Monday with The Guardian newspaper and attacked U.S. officials for calling him a traitor. “The U.S. government is not going to be able to cover ...
Keeping track of your assets Money Forward is a personal financial asset management service (in Japanese) that works similar to the U.S.-based service Mint.com. With more than 160 partners including banks, credit-card companies and mobile carriers, the service automatically pulls all your financial information ...
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
The Toronto Comics Arts Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, has of late made its name bringing over cutting-edge Japanese artists for signings, live drawing sessions and speaking events. The atmosphere at this year’s event, held in May, in many ways like ...
Manu Ginobili ran onto the floor as fans stood and screamed. He went to the bench, and they chanted his name. The sights and sounds of so many San Antonio spring nights were back Sunday — and the real party might be just a ...
Activist Chen Guangcheng charged that China waged an “unrelenting” pressure campaign that led New York University to end his studies as he voiced fear for academic freedom in the United States. The blind self-taught lawyer, one of the most emblematic Chinese human rights campaigners, spoke out after adamant denials from ...
After months of threatening to wage a nuclear war, North Korea did an about-face Sunday and issued a surprise proposal ...
Suddenly, all kinds of people in China are offering to sleep with the headmaster. The unusual outpouring is in response ...
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s attempt to marginalize the opposition by claiming it would change abortion rights and sideline women has backfired with a poll Monday showing male voters are deserting her. Gillard, the country’s first female leader, last week reignited a simmering gender ...
An Australian woman who now speaks with a French-sounding accent after a head injury eight years ago has revealed the experience has left her feeling frustrated and reclusive. Leanne Rowe, born and raised on the southern Australian island of Tasmania, was in a serious ...
A man was recovering in a hospital Monday after surviving a plunge from the 15th floor of his New Zealand apartment building. Police said the 20-year-old man discovered he was locked out of his 14th floor unit in the Volt Apartment building in downtown ...
Vietnamese police have arrested a blogger accused of posting “erroneous and slanderous” information about the communist government, state media reported Monday. The blogger is the third locked up in less than a month in a crackdown against dissent. Dinh Nhat Uy was taken into ...
Gunmen killed two anti-polio workers Sunday in northwestern Pakistan, police said. The two attackers shot the two Pakistani health workers while they were on a vaccination drive in rural Kandar village, said Swabi District Police Chief Mohammad Saeed. The gunmen arrived on foot and ...
North Korea's top governing body proposes high-level nuclear and security talks with the United States just days after calling off talks with South Korea.
It is an odd sight: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wearing a jacket and tie, but no shoes. Then again, if you have not stepped outside Ecuador’s embassy in London in a year, shoes are largely pointless. In an interview to mark this strange ...
Political pressure is growing in Hong Kong for its government to protect Edward Snowden, who has said he will remain in the city and allow its people to “decide his fate.” Yet Snowden is depending on a place that isn’t in control of even ...
Taiwan and the Philippines have pledged not to use force in fishing disputes, officials said, as the two sides tackle a row over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coastguardsmen. The agreement was reached during their first preparatory meeting on fishery cooperation ...
Pakistani forces stormed a hospital that had been taken over by gunmen Saturday in a restive southwestern province, freeing hostages and ending a five-hour standoff that capped a series of attacks in which 22 people died. Police said six of the attackers were killed ...
Australia imposed an interim ban on 19 synthetic cannabis and cocainelike drugs on Sunday as part of a crackdown on the psychoactive substances, which mimic the highs of their illegal counterparts. Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury said the 19 products would be banned from sale ...
Six Chinese oenology students were attacked in the early hours of Saturday in France’s wine-producing region of Bordeaux, the Interior Ministry reported, describing the violence as an act of xenophobia. The students, who arrived in France only two months ago and are between ages ...