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 ...
Encouraged by what they view as fatal setbacks to the Syrian regime, several thousand of an estimated 250,000 Syrian exiles in Jordan have left in recent weeks to join the rebellion in their homeland. The exodus has emptied hundreds of the safe houses, apartments ...
Islamist rebels warned two Christian towns on Saturday they will be attacked if they do not evict regime forces, but the new Greek Orthodox patriarch said Syria’s often-fearful Christians will stay put and urged a peaceful end to the conflict. Yet a key opposition ...
United Nations AFP-JIJI The United Nations is sending chemical weapons kits to U.N. troops in the Golan Heights because of growing fears over Syria’s deadly unconventional arsenal, officials said Monday. U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous briefed the U.N. Security Council on efforts to bolster ...
Syria’s vice president called Sunday for a negotiated end to the war that has raged for almost two years, saying neither the regime nor the rebels battling it can win on the ground. Farouk al-Sharaa, in an interview to be published Monday in the ...
Government forces have fired at least half a dozen short-range ballistic missiles at rebel groups in northern Syria over the past several days, according to U.S. officials, a potentially significant escalation of a civil war that has killed more than 40,000 people. U.S. officials ...
President Barack Obama proclaimed Syria’s newly reframed opposition as the “legitimate” representative of the nation’s people Tuesday, in the most significant U.S. intervention in a brutal civil war. As Washington cranked up pressure on beleaguered President Bashar Assad, the Obama administration also blacklisted the ...
From a distance it resembles a large rusty metal box, but closer inspection reveals the latest achievement of Syrian rebels: a homemade armored vehicle waiting to be deployed. Sham II is built from the chassis of a car and touted by rebels as “100 ...
Protests in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo against the Free Syrian Army (FSA) highlight the waning influence of mainstream rebel groups and the rise of more disciplined and better-equipped radical Islamists. Once a rare sight in Syria’s second-largest city and commercial hub, plagued since ...
Surprise talks Thursday among U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, and U.N. peace envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi ended without any decisions to halt the conflict. Brahimi said all three agreed the situation in Syria was “very, very, ...
