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 ...
The military intervened Sunday in clashes between thousands of protesters and police in a restive Egyptian canal city, the latest in a cycle of violence that killed two security members and two civilians, and which continues to rock Egypt two years after the uprising ...
Concerned about Egypt’s political instability and the U.S. budget crunch, a growing number of American lawmakers are challenging the wisdom of providing $1.3 billion a year in military aid to Cairo, arguing that the policy is overdue for a wholesale review. Lawmakers say that ...
President Barack Obama has appointed a new coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Persian Gulf, the White House announced Saturday. Philip Gordon, a veteran foreign policy expert, will take up his post on March 11. The appointment came two weeks before ...
For nearly two weeks, protesters and strikers have shut down much of Egypt’s Port Said, filling the city’s streets with one angry rally after another. At the height of the unrest, they succeeded in closing off the multimillion-dollar Mediterranean port, forcing some ships to ...
Gaza militants on Tuesday fired a rocket into Israel for the first time in three months, rattling a cross-border truce that has held since Israel’s military offensive against the Hamas-run territory. Israel closed Gaza’s main cargo crossing until further notice, an apparent warning to ...
The mysterious death of a 30-year-old Palestinian gas station attendant in Israeli custody stoked new West Bank clashes Sunday, along with Israeli fears of a third Palestinian uprising. A senior Palestinian official alleged that Arafat Jaradat was tortured by Israel’s Shin Bet security service, ...
Syria’s opposition National Coalition said it was pulling out of several international meetings to protest the “international silence” despite the slaughter of civilians in the conflict. The announcement came after the coalition had said it would form a government to run “liberated areas” of ...
A car bomb exploded Thursday near Syria’s ruling party headquarters in Damascus, killing at least 53 people and scattering mangled bodies among the blazing wreckage in one of the bloodiest days in the capital since the uprising began almost two years ago. Elsewhere in ...
To the caches of ammunition and medicines that they lug each day from this border city back into their homeland, Syrian rebels have added new tools to support their fight against President Bashar Assad: metal detectors and pickaxes. The rebels, struggling to finance their ...
Adding weight to its announcement of a nuclear upgrade, Tehran has shown U.N. officials high-tech equipment positioned at its main uranium enrichment site meant to vastly accelerate output of material that can be used for both reactor fuel and atomic arms, a senior envoy ...
Rockets and mortar rounds kill six people and wound around 40 at a refugee camp for Iranian exiles next to Baghdad's international airport.
Watching the events in Tunisia, where a leading anti-Islamist politician was shot to death this past week, members of Egypt’s liberal opposition are fearfully asking whether it could it happen in their country too. Their fears of a renegade Islamist attack on any of ...
