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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
A Shiite king ruled northern Syria more than a millennium ago from behind the towering walls of the citadel in Aleppo. In later centuries, Arab armies repelled medieval crusaders from the hilltop fortress, Mongol invaders damaged it and Ottomans used it as military barracks. ...
Israel launches an airstrike in the Syrian capital targeting a shipment of Iranian-made missiles believed headed to Lebanon's Hezbollah militants.
Video journalist Mika Yamamoto, who was killed last year while covering Syria's civil war, is named joint winner of the 2013 World Press Freedom Hero prize.
A few days ago, a little-known Swedish scientist with a career devoted to studying lethal warfare agents paid a quiet visit to London. He was there to examine evidence that British officials believe shows that Syrian forces used chemical weapons against their own people. ...
President Barack Obama is preparing to send lethal weaponry to the Syrian opposition and has taken steps to assert more aggressive U.S. leadership among allies and partners seeking the ouster of President Bashar Assad, according to senior administration officials. The officials emphasized that supplying ...
New questions emerge over the source of the soil and other samples from Syria that supposedly tested positive for the nerve agent sarin.
Much as it struggled to understand the weapons capabilities of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq over the years, the United States is now bedeviled by a growing body of evidence that suggests Syrians have been exposed to chemical weapons at least twice. Far from clear, however, ...
A senior Israeli military official says it is "quite clear" Syria has used chemical agents, which U.S. President Barack Obama has called a "red line" Damascus cannot cross.
A senior Israeli military official says it is "quite clear" Syria has used chemical agents, which U.S. President Barack Obama has called a "red line" Damascus cannot cross.
Senior Israeli military officials asserted Tuesday that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have used chemical weapons against the country’s civilians, saying their evidence — including photographs of victims foaming at the mouth — made them “nearly 100 percent” certain. It was the ...
Wriggling through crater-size holes in deserted, bullet-pocked buildings, once-dormant Kurdish militia fighters in the city of Aleppo are providing Syrian rebels a much-needed boost to push back regime forces. Since the uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime started more than two years ago, Syria’s ...
The European Union was set Monday to ease its oil embargo against Syria in favor of rebels fighting President Bashar Assad’s regime in its latest signal of support to the opposition. EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg were set to formally adopt measures enabling ...