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Britain’s Prime Minister Denounces Violent Responses to Wednesday’s Brutal Knife Attack
British Prime Minister David Cameron this morning denounced right-wing riots and attacks on mosques as “knee-jerk responses” to the brutal knife attack apparently committed by two men on a London street yesterday as the attack …
London Man Hacked to Death in Suspected Terrorist Attack
A man has been killed in a violent attack in the southeast London area of Woolwich. Police arrived at the scene and shot the two assailants, who according to eyewitness accounts had a firearm.
There have been unconfirmed …
India Scorched by Blistering Heatwave
A blistering heatwave has hit stretches of India, with temperatures reaching 45 degrees celsius, or 113 degrees Fahrenheit. Ahead of the seasonal monsoon rains, millions are now looking for ways to cool off.
OAS to White House and Hemisphere: It’s High Time to Consider Legalizing Pot
On the Latin American street, the Organization of American States has always borne a reputation, often undeserved, as Washington’s lackey. But the OAS, based in Washington, just sent the western hemisphere a message the White …
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Iranian authorities ban two influential politicians from running in the presidential election next month, bear bile farming draws strong criticism in China and Britain has reportedly asked the E.U. to add the military wing of …
Savage Escalation Threatened in Thailand’s Southern Insurgency
“Children and women will not be spared,” warned the leaflet. It wasn’t an idle threat. On May 1, Islamist insurgents from the Pejuang Kemerdekaan Fatoni — the Fatoni or Pattani Fighters — opened fire on villagers …
Iraq’s Sectarian Violence: Bombings Plunge Country Into Deadly Spiral
In early January 2006, less than a month after I arrived in Iraq as a young U.S. Army lieutenant, I witnessed my first act of violence committed against Iraqi civilians. While on a patrol on a highway 20 km south of Baghdad, a …
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Guatemala’s highest court overturns the genocide conviction of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, the European Parliament will hold talks to fight tax evasion and a three-month dip in hog prices in China is poised to come to an end
Forget Paris: Stymied by Socialist Policies, the French Start to Quit France
Ernest Hemingway once described Paris in spring as a time when “there were no problems except where to be happiest.” Clearly Hemingway did not foresee the springtime of 2013. For many of Paris’ residents right now — in …
15 Years After the Fall of Suharto, a Mixed Picture of Indonesia’s Minorities
Indonesians are rightly proud of their country’s democratic transformation. But the relative openness that Indonesians have enjoyed since 1998 has given rise not only to civic freedom but also hard-line religious groups that …
A Tale of Two Factory Disasters: What Cambodia Can Teach Bangladesh
As the final death toll of the Bangladesh factory collapse reached 1,126 last week, a small section of the second floor of a shoe factory in Cambodia gave way. Two people died, but witnesses said it was a stroke of luck that the …
Chinese Premier Li’s New Delhi Visit Puts Sino-Indian Ties in the Spotlight
New Delhi commuters are not among those likely to be won over by China’s new Premier during his three-day visit to the Indian capital this week. On Monday morning, rush-hour traffic ground to a sweltering halt on one of the …
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The E.U. is worried about Russia’s human rights record, rubber barons deforest Cambodia and Laos and attempts to introduce a law to protect women’s freedoms have reportedly been blocked by conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan
