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 | Focus Sep 26, 2013
Iran tries to shift scrutiny to Israeli nuclear weapons
With a few words in a largely conciliatory speech to the United Nations, Iran’s new president took aim at an Israeli fear: that international pressure on Tehran’s nuclear program could lead to scrutiny of Israel’s own secretive nuclear facilities. Israel is widely believed to ...
World | Focus Sep 24, 2013
Terrorism — a tie binding Israel, Kenya
by Josef Federman
Scarred by memories of a pair of attacks on Israeli targets in Africa a decade ago, Israel has dispatched a team of experts to its close ally Kenya to advise authorities on the bloody standoff at a Nairobi shopping mall. While officials refuse to ...
Crime | Focus Sep 18, 2013
For world, U.S. gun violence is new norm
by Anthony Faiola and Karla Adam
Jimmy Davis, a 41-year-old London disc jockey, was saddened when he heard about the latest mass shooting in the United States. But like much of the world after the attack Monday at Washington’s Navy Yard, he was no longer shocked. The United States is ...
World Sep 12, 2013
NSA reportedly sharing data about U.S. citizens with Israel
The U.S. National Security Agency shares raw surveillance data with Israel without first removing information about American citizens, according to a document leaked to The Guardian newspaper by former agency contractor Edward Snowden. The arrangement is described in a memorandum between the two countries ...
Environment Aug 31, 2013
'Red-Dead' plan by Jordan, Israel worries experts
A plan to link the Red Sea with the shrinking Dead Sea could save it from total evaporation and bring desalinated water to thirsty neighbors Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians. But environmentalists warn that the “Red-Dead” project could have dire consequences, altering the unique ...
World | ANALYSIS Aug 29, 2013
West missed chances to cut arsenal
by Simeon Bennett
The United States and its allies may be headed for a war that they could have tried harder to prevent. The failure since the 1970s to put more pressure on Syria to relinquish its chemical weapons, plus American support for Iraq even after it ...
World Aug 27, 2013
Fatal West Bank clash may threaten peace talks
by William Booth
Palestinian leaders say peace negotiations are threatened after Israeli security forces fatally shot three Palestinian men during an early-morning clash in the Qalandia refugee camp.
National Aug 21, 2013
Hiroshima, Nagasaki warn Obama on plutonium tests
The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki separately sent letters of protest to President Barack Obama on Tuesday after the United States revealed it had conducted an experiment using plutonium to examine the capabilities of nuclear weapons between April and June. “I just can’t stop ...
Tech Aug 20, 2013
Unemployed Web developer hacks Zuckerberg's Facebook page
by Caitlin Dewey
An unemployed Palestinian developer named Khalil Shreateh tried several times to report a bug to Facebook’s security team. When no one got back to him, he took the (dubiously) logical next step: exploited the bug to leave a public comment on Facebook CEO Mark ...
National Aug 7, 2013
Israeli moviemaker searching for girl in children's book from the 1950s
Israeli filmmaker Dvorit Shargal will visit Japan on Monday to look for a woman who appeared in a children’s photo book published in Sweden in 1956, hoping to create a documentary featuring the girl known only as “Noriko-san.” In Israel, Noriko-san is the first ...
Editorial Aug 1, 2013
A return to the Mideast table
The announcement that Israel and Palestine will resume long-stalled peace talks is a step forward, and deserves the support of all who seek a permanent peace.
Politics & Diplomacy Jul 31, 2013
Israeli-Palestinian aim: A peace deal in nine months
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agree to meet again within two weeks to start substantive talks in hopes of reaching a long-elusive settlement within nine months.