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 ...
Why has Italy's muddled election result spooked global investors so much? Because it raises unsettling questions about the availability of the financial safety net that has kept Europe from catastrophe for the past six months.
Italian leftist leader Pier Luigi Bersani admits he had "come in first but not won" key elections and asks parties to help him push through reforms amid a political deadlock that has sent markets tumbling.
The dollar plunged below ¥92 in Tokyo trading Tuesday as the euro was battered after the general election in Italy left the country in political gridlock and raised uncertainties over the reconstruction of its public finances. At 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at ...
India’s top investigative agency is looking into the role former Air Chief Marshal Shashi Tyagi played in a $750 million helicopter contract marred by reports of bribery. Italian prosecutors suspect that kickbacks worth around 10 percent of the deal, or $68 million, were paid ...
Stocks fell sharply Tuesday, pressured by heavy selling on the back of the yen’s upsurge and rekindled concerns over the European debt crisis after Italy’s general election. The Nikkei 225 average closed down 263.71 points, or 2.26 percent, at 11,398.81. On Monday, the key ...
Italy faces political paralysis as near-complete results in crucial national elections showed no clear front-runner and raised the possibility of a hung parliament.
Italy faces political paralysis as results in crucial national elections show no clear front-runner, leaving the country with an unprecedented hung Parliament.
Italy faces political paralysis as near-complete results in crucial national elections showed no clear front-runner and raised the possibility of a hung parliament.
When Silvio Berlusconi put his foot in his mouth yet again last week, claiming that kickbacks are a normal part of doing business abroad, Italy waited for a crushing rebuke from his main opponent in this month’s election. But Pier Luigi Bersani is not ...
How much weight does an endorsement from a lame-duck pope carry in the upcoming election? No, not that election — the one to pick the next leader of the Catholic Church. Another key ballot is looming even closer, when Italians go to the polls ...
Conservation workers at the long-neglected Roman city of Pompeii began a €105 million ($142 million) makeover partly funded by the EU on Wednesday, a day after former site managers were put under investigation for corruption. The project, which is being funded to the tune ...
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi vowed Sunday to refund the money Italians have had to fork out for an unpopular property tax if his coalition wins this month’s elections. Speaking at a rally in Milan, he vowed to scrap the levy and refund the ...
