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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.
A Senate committee approves a sweeping immigration reform bill that would provide a path to citizenship for up to 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States.
Los Angeles has elected its next mayor: City Councilman Eric Garcetti, a Latino who will also become the city’s first ...
Iran's election overseers removes potential wild-card candidates from the presidential race, blocking a top aide of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ...
Every immigrant leaving the U.S. through one of the 30 biggest airports would have to be fingerprinted by federal authorities under an immigration reform measure that won early committee approval in the Senate on Monday. The plan approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee is ...
President Barack Obama’s professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists’ sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency: Sometimes he uses his office as aggressively as anyone who’s held it; ...
Jerome Cahuzac, France’s former budget minister who was forced out of office over a tax fraud scandal, will not seek re-election to his former parliamentary seat, a newspaper reported Sunday. Cahuzac, who last month bowed to pressure and also resigned from the National Assembly, ...
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 ...
Prime Minister David Cameron has suffered a fresh blow to his authority, with around a third of his own party’s lawmakers voting against his delay on offering a referendum on Britain’s European Union membership. The lower house of Parliament on Wednesday rejected a motion ...
It was an article of faith among conservatives before Sen. Barack Obama became president, and has persisted through his re-election: America’s first black president and the supposedly liberal mainstream media enjoy a veritable love fest. The reality, at least among those who cover the ...
U.S. President Barack Obama ousts the acting commissioner of the federal tax agency, moving forcefully to quell a growing uproar over revelations that conservative political groups were improperly targeted for scrutiny when they filed for tax-exempt status.
For years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been saddled with an image of a cigar-smoking, cognac-drinking socialite. Now a new disclosure about his soaring spending on housekeeping, furniture, clothing and other expenses is increasing pressure on him in a country whose leaders once ...
The IRS used “inappropriate” political criteria when it singled out conservative groups for scrutiny over an 18-month span, an inspector concluded in a report Tuesday. As the inspector general issued his 54-page report to Congress, the White House denied involvement in the affair, and ...
Was he or wasn’t he? The video footage shows the new Czech president clearly worse for wear, propping himself up against a wall at a public event, struggling to negotiate a step and being aided by a cardinal. Milos Zeman makes no secret of ...
Prime Minister David Cameron is bracing for a fresh Conservative rebellion over Europe this week as about 100 of his party’s lawmakers look set to defy him in a parliamentary vote. Tory divisions over Britain’s membership in the European Union, never far below the ...
Iran’s constitutional watchdog said Sunday it will seek possible charges against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for allegedly violating rules by accompanying his chief adviser to the election registry office the previous day. The dispute appears to stem from an ongoing confrontation between Ahmadinejad and the ...