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 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 ...
Asia Pacific Sep 24, 2013
North Korea 'able to build nuclear parts'
by Foster Klug
North Korean scientists are able to build crucial equipment for uranium-based nuclear bombs on their own, cutting the need for imports that had been one of the few ways outsiders could monitor the country's secretive atomic work, according to evidence gathered by two American ...
World Sep 24, 2013
Americans, Briton 'among Nairobi mall attackers'
Kenya's foreign minister says "two or three Americans" and "one Brit" were among the al-Qaida-linked militants who took part in the deadly terrorist attack on an upscale Nairobi shopping mall.
World Sep 24, 2013
Egypt bans Brotherhood, to seize assets
An Egyptian court orders the banning of the Muslim Brotherhood and the confiscation of its assets, opening the door for authorities to dramatically accelerate a crackdown on the extensive network of schools, hospitals, charities and other social institutions that was the foundation of the ...
Asia Pacific Sep 23, 2013
Pakistan church bombing toll hits 81
The death toll from a twin suicide bombing on a church in Pakistan rose to 81 Monday, as Christians protested across the country to demand better protection for their community. The attack on All Saints Church in the northwestern city of Peshawar after a ...
Asia Pacific Sep 23, 2013
Pyongyang 'tested new long-range rocket engine'
Satellite images suggest North Korea tested a long-range rocket engine last month, a U.S. research institute warns.
World Sep 22, 2013
Suicide bombers strike Iraqi funeral; one-day death toll at 96
Two suicide bombers, one in an explosives-laden car and the other on foot, struck a cluster of funeral tents packed with mourning families in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, the deadliest in a string of attacks that killed at least 96 people around Iraq ...
World Sep 22, 2013
Syria Islamists rake in funds
Syria's Islamist extremists are getting a fresh torrent of cash from Arab donors hoping for an uprising to erupt across the region.