It was a casual remark over a lunch of salad, fish and red wine but future historians are likely to parse and ponder every word: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us any more." Fidel Castro's nine-word confession, dropped into conversation with a visiting US journalist and policy analyst, undercuts half a century of thundering revolutionary certitude about Cuban socialism. That the island's e
At least 16 people were killed today and more than 100 injured when a car bomb ripped through a market in the relatively quiet southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, in what appears to be the latest suicide strike by Islamist militants. Police said the bomber drove into the crowded marketplace at 11.20am local time, then blew himself up. The bomb hidden in the boot contained the equivalent of 40kg
Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies. Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year. Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a recruit who exposed the murders wh
March 29th, 2013 Afghanistan Study Group: U.S., Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Efforts Founder Secretary of State John Kerry’s trip to Afghanistan this week indicated an improvement in the U.S.-Afghanistan relationship. But tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan is rising, according to media reports. Developments on the ground in Afghanistan have raised questions about the … Continue reading → Ma
【エルサレム花岡洋二】トルコで今月12日、軍や司法にかかわる憲法改正の是非を問う国民投票が実施される。イスラムの伝統重視を掲げる与党・公正発展党(AKP)が主導する。歴史的にイスラム系政党は、国是である政教分離の守護者を自任する軍や司法と対立しており、憲法改正により、それらの「政治介入」を排除するのが狙いとされる。国の針路を左右する大幅な改憲だが、世論調査で国民の賛否は割れている。 トルコは人口の99%がイスラム教徒だが、1923年の近代国家誕生以来、世俗主義を貫いてきた。軍の役割は大きく、4度のクーデターでイスラム主義を排除し、現憲法は80年のクーデター後に国民投票で承認された。 これに対し、02年に初のイスラム系単独政権に就いたAKPは、これまでに数度の憲法改正を通じて政権基盤を固めてきた。07年には一層のイスラム化に向け、大学での女性のスカーフ着用を容認する憲法修正を実現したが、翌0
Gunmen in Iraq have killed an Iraqi TV journalist - the second in as many days - while four other people were killed in two attacks in the capital Baghdad. Safah Abdul Hameed was shot dead in front of his home in the northern city of Mosul as he left for work at the al-Mosuliyah satellite television station.
Gloria Nagy and RIchard Saul Wurman work and live in a 19th-century copy of a French country house.Credit...Trent Bell for The New York Times NEWPORT, R.I. “ISN’T it pretentious?” That was Richard Saul Wurman, a slight figure in cargo shorts, T-shirt and sandals, at the door of his “super mansion” — to use the words of his friend the designer Massimo Vignelli — otherwise known as the Orchard. Its
A new study suggests high doses of B vitamins may halve the rate of brain shrinkage in older people experiencing some of the warning signs of Alzheimer's disease. Brain shrinkage is one of the symptoms of mild cognitive impairment, which often leads to dementia. Researchers say this could be the first step towards finding a way to delay the onset of Alzheimer's. Experts said the findings were impo
Taliban leader Mullah Omar says his fighters are winning the war in Afghanistan and that the Nato-led campaign has been "a complete failure". In a rare and unusually detailed statement published in four languages, the elusive leader repeated his call for foreign forces to leave. Nato has boosted its presence in Afghanistan to 150,000 soldiers in a bid to finally defeat militants. However, the US h
By Robert Mackey September 8, 2010 6:02 pm September 8, 2010 6:02 pm A message posted on Twitter last week by a reporter who was being held by Afghan militants. A Japanese journalist who was released this week after being held captive in Afghanistan for five months explained on Tuesday how he had managed to post two updates on Twitter from the phone of one of his captors. Kosuke Tsuneoka, who was
Serbia bowed to intense European and US pressure today by dropping a challenge to Kosovo's independence at the United Nations, clearing the way for settlement talks between Belgrade and the Kosovo Albanian leadership. President Boris Tadic of Serbia announced the volte-face tonight, hours before the UN general assembly had been due to debate a demand from Belgrade seeking to reverse, question or i
The priest suspected of being involved in the 1972 Claudy bombing met Martin McGuinness shortly before he died. The Sinn Fein MP said Fr James Chesney talked about his support for a united Ireland, but he did not mention the attack, which killed nine people. "I never knew Fr Chesney before Claudy; I never knew Fr Chesney for many years after the bombing," he said. "I was told he was a republican s
VOW OF PROPERTY Father Arsenios at the Vatopaidi monastery, overlooking the Aegean Sea, in Mount Athos, Greece. He is considered by many to be Vatopaidi’s C.F.O., “the real brains of the operation.” After an hour on a plane, two in a taxi, three on a decrepit ferry, and then four more on buses driven madly along the tops of sheer cliffs by Greeks on cell phones, I rolled up to the front door of th
A couple of weeks ago, while I was on vacation, my cell phone rang; it was Jorge Bolanos, the head of the Cuban Interest Section (we of course don't have diplomatic relations with Cuba) in Washington. "I have a message for you from Fidel," he said. This made me sit up straight. "He has read your Atlantic article about Iran and Israel. He invites you to Havana on Sunday to discuss the article." I a
David Cameron's father died today after a suffering a stroke on holiday, shortly after the prime minister arrived at his bedside at a hospital in the south of France where he was being treated. Downing Street confirmed that Ian Cameron, who was 77, passed away after being admitted to hospital suffering a stroke and heart problems. Friends said Cameron was "relieved" to have been at the bedside, an
A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, he said Tuesday. Kosuke Tsuneoka, a freelance journalist, was released from five months of captivity on Saturday. His freedom came a day after the first messages since his disappearance were posted to
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