Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
World | ANALYSIS Sep 30, 2013
Kenyan attack aids president's stature, leeway
by Jean Marc Mojon
Until the Nairobi mall carnage, Uhuru Kenyatta was a beleaguered and divisive president. But his own bereavement and new clothes as commander in chief have earned him fresh support — and, some say, a “get out of jail free card” for the International Criminal ...
World Sep 30, 2013
Mother identifies Nairobi morgue's last victim from mall
Karen Wambui walked slowly through the Nairobi city morgue’s turquoise and yellow iron gates, still trying to process what she had seen inside. She had just confirmed that the last body still there from the Westgate Mall attack nearly a week earlier was that ...
World Sep 28, 2013
U.S. mom, daughters spotted but spared by attackers
A blast. Gunfire. Katherine Walton grabbed her three young daughters and dove to the mall’s tiled floor. Later, a terrorist gunman looked into Walton’s eyes but didn’t shoot. She and the girls, as Walton put it, were hiding in plain view, yet they weren’t ...
World Sep 28, 2013
Kenyan troops caused mall collapse: official
Kenya’s military caused three floors of the Westgate Mall to collapse during the deadly terrorist siege, a top-ranking official confirmed Friday, while the government urged patience with the pace of an investigation that has left key questions unanswered. Seven days after 67 people were ...
World Sep 26, 2013
Warlord behind Kenya attack has global ambitions
by Sudarsan Raghavan
The alleged Somali mastermind of the assault on a posh mall that killed scores and jolted Kenya is a man of contradictions. Ahmed Godane is bookish, eloquent in both Arabic and Somali, recites poetry and is known to quote from obscure academic journals, analysts ...
World Sep 26, 2013
FBI agents start work to identify the victims
Working near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall, FBI agents began fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis Wednesday to help determine the identities and nationalities of victims and al-Shabab gunmen who attacked the shopping center, killing more than 60 people. A gaping ...
World | ANALYSIS Sep 26, 2013
Malls add security after Kenya strike
Some malls around the world have been scrambling to add security guards to look for suspicious people following a deadly attack on a shopping center in Nairobi over the weekend. But for other malls, it has been business as usual.
World Sep 25, 2013
Searchers comb Kenya mall for dead
Kenyan troops and rescue workers scour the wreckage of a Nairobi shopping mall for bodies and booby traps after a four-day siege by Islamist gunmen.
World Sep 25, 2013
Kenya attack unfolds in real time on Twitter
As the deadly attack unfolded inside Kenya’s Westgate Mall, the militants who claimed responsibility for the spreading mayhem sent out tweet after tweet, taunting the country’s military, defending the mass killings and threatening more bloodshed. Each time Twitter shut the account down — a ...
World | Focus Sep 25, 2013
Nairobi mall visit becomes a trip to hell
“You’re a very bad man,” a brave 4-year-old British boy told one of the Islamist gunmen in the bloody siege of a Nairobi mall, one of the many poignant tales emerging from the attacks that have horrified the world. It was a Saturday and ...
World Sep 25, 2013
Dozens of young American jihadists recruited by al-Shabab
Dozens of Americans have been lured away from comfortable homes to join Somalia’s al-Shabab insurgents, the Islamist group behind the bloody attack on a Kenyan mall. While the FBI said Tuesday it has not yet been able to confirm reports that two or three ...
World Sep 24, 2013
Confusion engulfs Kenya mall siege
Sporadic gunfire rang out Tuesday from inside a Nairobi mall as Kenyan security forces battled al-Qaida-linked terrorists into a fourth day in what they said was a final push to rescue the last few hostages in a siege that has left more than 60 ...