The BBC's Altaf Hussain in Srinagar says reports of Koran desecration in the US have stoked anger. Police have shot dead 18 civilians in the deadliest day in Indian-administered Kashmir since protests erupted three months ago. A policeman was also killed when he was run over by a lorry. The BBC's Altaf Hussain in Srinagar says reports of Koran desecration in the US have stoked anger. Scores of Kas
Last week Japan’s minister of finance declared that he and his colleagues wanted a discussion with China about the latter’s purchases of Japanese bonds, to “examine its intention” � diplomat-speak for “Stop it right now.” The news made me want to bang my head against the wall in frustration. You see, senior American policy figures have repeatedly balked at doing anything about Chinese currency man
AT THE heart of Ichiro Ozawa's constituency near Oshu City in north-east Japan stands the huge Isawa dam, built of rock. It looks like a monument to the political career of a man fighting against the odds to become Japan's latest prime minister on September 14th. It deserves to be the millstone around his neck.
Military police are investigating claims that British soldiers may have trafficked heroin from Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defence said they were aware of "unsubstantiated" claims that troops were using military aircraft to ship the drug out of the country. The inquiry is focusing on service personnel at airports in Camp Bastion and Kandahar. Security has been tightened, with additional sniffer d
The US and European Union have welcomed the result of the Turkish constitutional referendum. Voters in Turkey gave strong backing to a package of changes to the country's military-era constitution. The changes are aimed at bringing Turkey more in line with the EU, which the government wants to join. This result will help PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who made the reform a test of his leadership, ahead
The trawler was fishing in waters near islands claimed by both China and Japan Japanese authorities say they have released 14 crew members of a Chinese fishing trawler seized last week in the East China Sea. But the captain of the vessel remains in custody following the incident, which happened in disputed waters. Prosecutors have until 19 September to decide whether to lay formal charges against
Nelson Mandela felt so betrayed by Tony Blair's decision to join the US-led invasion of Iraq that he launched a fiery tirade against him in a phone call to a cabinet minister, it emerged today. Peter Hain, a lifelong anti-apartheid campaigner who knows the ex-South African president well, said Mandela was "breathing fire" down the line in protest at the 2003 military action. The trenchant criticis
At least three Palestinians have been killed by tank fire near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, reports say. Medical staff and witnesses said Israel fired shots across the border near the town of Beit Hanoun in Gaza. One report said that two of those killed were a 91-year-old man and his 33-year-old grandson. Militants in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip earlier fired a rocket into Israel but
Supporters of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey gathered at the Istanbul headquarters of his governing Justice and Development Party on Sunday.Credit...Osman Orsal/Reuters ISTANBUL — Turkish voters approved a sweeping package of constitutional reforms by a wide margin on Sunday, handing a major victory to the Islamist-rooted government that continued the country’s inexorable shift in p
Baikal Environmental Wave protested in June against a paper factory on the shores of Lake Baikal, months after security forces seized its computers.Credit...Valeri Nistratov for The New York Times IRKUTSK, Russia — It was late one afternoon in January when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group here. They brushed past the staff with b
TOKYO � Shadow shogun, scandal-tainted party boss, insider turned rebel, a leader who can say no to Washington � Ichiro Ozawa has been called many things in his four decades in politics. Now, as Mr. Ozawa, the former head of Japan’s governing Democratic Party and its widely acknowledged power broker, begins what might be the final maneuver in a turbulent and often chameleon-like career, he is prov
There are boxes that US presidential hopefuls have to tick early. They have to start building a campaign team, albeit discreetly. They have to set up a fundraising machine. And they have to visit Iowa, the small but politically crucial state that traditionally kicks off a White House run. Sarah Palin has ticked the first two and on Friday will tick the third when she is the main speaker at a $100-
British soldiers and airmen are suspected of being responsible for the murder and manslaughter of a number of Iraqi civilians in addition to the high-profile case of Baha Mousa, defence officials have admitted. The victims include a man who was allegedly kicked to death on board an RAF helicopter, another who was shot by a soldier of the Black Watch after being involved in a traffic incident, and
Tom Bingham, who has died aged 76 of lung cancer, was widely recognised as the greatest English judge since the second world war. Serving at the apex of the judiciary for an unusually long span, he was the first individual in the modern era to act both as master of the rolls, with the supreme remit for the civil courts for four years from 1992, and then as lord chief justice, running the criminal
Lord Bingham, the former lord chief justice and champion of human rights, has died of cancer aged 76, at his family home in Wales. "He will be remembered as an exceptional man with a brilliant mind," said Professor Robert McCorquodale, director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. As senior law lord Bingham ruled that detention of foreign terror suspects without charge br
Robinson was refused entry at JFK airport, taken into custody and flown straight back to the UK, according to a report published on the anti-Islam Gates of Vienna website sourced to EDL activists travelling with him. The rest of the delegation joined far-right leaders including Geert Wilders, the Dutch leader of the Freedom party, at the demonstration in lower Manhattan. The contingent was picture
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