A recent visitor to a museum in Shenyang, China, dedicated to the outbreak of war between Japan and China in 1931, carried a sign that referred to Japan’s wartime occupation of much of China and called on Tokyo to release a detained Chinese fisherman.Credit...Mark/European Pressphoto Agency BEIJING � For the last several years, one big theme has dominated talk of the future of Asia: As China rises
Twelve people have been killed and at least 35 wounded in a bomb attack on a military parade in north-western Iran. No soldiers died, but most of the casualties in the town of Mahabad were said to be women and children. A provincial governor blamed "counter-revolutionary groups" for the attack, which came on the 30th anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq war. Militants have long been active in
The raid on the Mavi Marmara resulted in the deaths of nine pro-Palestinian activists Israel's military broke international laws during a raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a UN Human Rights Council investigation says. Its report said the action by commandos, which left nine dead, was "disproportionate" and "betrayed an unacceptable level of brutality". It said there was clear evidence to support
An undated photograph of Franz Kafka.Credit...Courtesy the National Library of Israel During his lifetime, Franz Kafka burned an estimated 90 percent of his work. After his death at age 41, in 1924, a letter was discovered in his desk in Prague, addressed to his friend Max Brod. “Dearest Max,” it began. “My last request: Everything I leave behind me . . . in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letter
Turkish women in a predominantly immigrant district of Berlin this month. Anti-Muslim feelings are rising in Germany.Credit...Sean Gallup/Getty Images BERLIN � As anti-immigrant sentiment continues to sweep across Europe, generating a right-wing populist wave from the shores of the Mediterranean to the chilly reaches of Scandinavia, there is growing concern that such politics could take root here,
HONG KONG — Sharply raising the stakes in a dispute over Japan’s detention of a Chinese fishing trawler captain, the Chinese government has blocked exports to Japan of a crucial category of minerals used in products like hybrid cars, wind turbines and guided missiles. Chinese customs officials are halting shipments to Japan of so-called rare earth elements, preventing them from being loading aboar
Thank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in Murray Sayle: Terror and televisionThe great reporter Murray Sayle died last weekend. Here, in an article written in the cataclysmic aftermath of 11 September 2001, he recalls another monumental day – and his experience as an eyewit
Murray Sayle, who has died aged 84 after suffering from Parkinson's disease, was a journalistic legend, but he was also much more interesting than most of that breed. He was a complex, self-contradictory character, sardonic but warm, cynical but principled, who lived in several avatars and in three very different cultures: Australia, where he grew up and to which he returned in old age; Britain, w
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