AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Can Vukovar also be Bykobap? Whether the name of the war-scarred town on the Danube should be written in the Latin or Cyrillic alphabet is a sensitive question, and Croatia’s upcoming entry into the European Union is forcing residents of the Balkan country to ...
When the Cold War gripped the world, leftist terrorists staged spectacular attacks in a doomed campaign to overthrow governments and impose their vision of a socialist utopia. The bulk of these extremist groups eventually drifted into oblivion, gutted by police pressure, internal rifts and ...
Despite the opposition of authorities and Iceland’s strict law on names, a 15-year-old Icelandic girl has been granted the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother. Reykjavik District Court ruled Thursday that the name “Blaer” — meaning “light breeze” ...
Unemployment, recession, debt, crisis and bailouts have associated with the euro over the past few years. So it may come as a surprise to hear that a relatively poor country on the edge of the European Union is hurtling toward full membership within the ...
A vote on whether to build a second nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, the EU member’s first referendum since the end of communism in 1989, looked set to fail Sunday because of insufficient turnout. Final exit poll counts showed that between 20.5 and 21.8 ...
Spain’s bid to join the Pacific Alliance illustrates the growing clout of the trade association between Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, a new rival to the South American trading bloc Mercosur. In an interview with Santiago daily La Tercera, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy ...
Czechs on Saturday chose Europe-friendly leftist and former Prime Minister Milos Zeman as their new president in their first direct popular presidential vote. The burly Zeman, 68, trounced his conservative aristocrat rival with an antiausterity campaign in a nation struggling with recession. He scored ...
The push for strict new limits on how Internet companies collect and use consumer data in Europe has hit stiff resistance from U.S. industry groups and the Obama administration, dimming hopes that the effort could lead to expanded privacy safeguards for users worldwide. Privacy ...
As he came face to face with world leaders for the first time since unveiling plans for an EU referendum, British Prime Minister David Cameron insisted Thursday he is not turning his back on Europe. The global elite who are gathered at the World ...
Prime Minister David Cameron’s call for a new deal to keep Britain inside the European Union won little support Wednesday as fellow leaders, mindful of the potential fallout. “We can’t have Europe a la carte,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said. “Imagine the EU ...
Jeroen Dijsselbloem of the Netherlands took over Monday as chairman of the key Eurogroup of finance ministers, despite resistance in a vote to replace Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker. “We appointed the Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem to become the new president of the Eurogroup,” Juncker ...
Heavyweight political rivals Kenneth Clarke and Peter Mandelson will join forces to lobby for Britain to stay in the EU as David Cameron prepares to reveal his position, the Observer newspaper reported Sunday. The pair will fight calls — particularly from the right wing ...
