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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
The White House released 100 pages of emails Wednesday designed to defuse GOP claims of a coverup over the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi last year that killed four Americans. The documents show the development of the White House’s narrative in the ...
A deadly car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in a busy area packed with civilians in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, destroying part of the facility, officials said. Officials gave conflicting casualty figures, with death tolls ranging from three to 10 in ...
A seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical review on security at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, defended his report that blamed State Department deficiencies but absolved then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Thomas Pickering, who has served in Republican as well as ...
As the weakly protected U.S. diplomatic compound in eastern Libya came under attack the night of Sept. 11, 2012, the deputy head of the embassy in Tripoli sought in vain to get the Pentagon to scramble fighter jets over Benghazi in a show of ...
Gunmen in Tripoli kept up their siege of ministries Tuesday despite the adoption of a law to purge Gadhafi-era officials from their posts, with some demanding the government’s resignation. Different groups at the Justice and Foreign ministries, however, failed to reach a shared position ...
Libya: A guarantee of equality has been removed from the new constitution written after the revolution in 2011. There has been a rise in sexual assaults on the streets. Amnesty International claims discrimination against women “remains in law and practice.” Yemen: Women were prominent ...
The arms used by militants who seized an Algerian gas plant in a deadly hostage-taking drama came from Libyan rebels who overthrew Moammar Gadhafi last year, an Algerian newspaper reported Wednesday. “The first interrogations of the three terrorists captured by security services have revealed ...
The hostage standoff at an Algerian gas field has thrown a fresh spotlight on the spillover unleashed by the 2011 war that toppled Moammar Gadhafi in Libya. Experts say the vast quantities of weapons and fighters that streamed out of Gadhafi’s arsenals may have ...
Oil prices are likely to peak this summer as the loss of Libyan crude production has an increased impact on the market amid rising demand in Europe and Japan, Nomura International PLC said. Oil has “a potential to spike higher” as European refineries resume ...