Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has fired Moscow's powerful mayor, Yuri Luzhkov. Mr Luzhkov, 74, was being removed because he had lost "the trust of the president of the Russian Federation", a presidential decree said. In recent weeks Mr Luzhkov - who has been in office since 1992 - had faced harsh criticism from the Kremlin. Mr Luzhkov accused opponents of mounting a concerted campaign "of lies
The Israeli military says it has taken control of a boat carrying Jewish activists to the Gaza Strip and is towing it into an Israeli port. Israel had promised to stop the Irene, which was trying to breach a three-year naval blockade of Gaza. Earlier this year, Israeli commandos killed nine people in clashes on board a Turkish ship trying to reach Gaza. Israel says its blockade is designed to prev
Social media can’t provide what social change has always required.SEYMOUR CHWAST At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell Blair,
India Reopens Kashmir’s Schools, but Many Stay Away Students with their teacher at a school in Srinagar, in Indian-controlled Kashmir, on Monday.Credit...Associated Press NEW DELHI � The Indian government on Monday began the slow, uncertain process of trying to restore normalcy to the violence-racked region of Kashmir. Authorities reopened schools and universities, even as many students stayed awa
Gen. David H. Petraeus, left, with Col. Kevin Burk, at a detention center in Parwan, Afghanistan, where Afghans suspected of ties to the insurgency are held.Credit...David Guttenfelder/Associated Press PARWAN, Afghanistan � The top American commander in Afghanistan said Monday that high-level Taliban leaders had reached out to senior Afghan government officials in the context of starting reconcili
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's youngest son, Kim Jong-un, has been appointed a general, amid rumours he is being anointed as successor. State television said the elder Kim had been re-elected as leader, at the start of a meeting of the ruling party. The Workers' Party has not met for decades and observers believe Kim Jong-il may be cementing the family dynasty. The succession is being closely w
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: ''We're absolutely determined to press on'' The US says it is "disappointed" by Israel's decision not to extend a ban on West Bank settlement building. US Middle East envoy George Mitchell has been sent to the region in an attempt to salvage direct peace talks that were restarted earlier this month. The 10-month moratorium came to an end at midnight (2200 GMT o
Opponents of Hugo Chávez made major gains yesterday in legislative elections that could weaken the president's dominant power in Venezuela. The opposition overturned Chávez's two-thirds majority in the national assembly, and claimed to have won most of the popular vote. If it were confirmed, the result would mark a milestone. With most of the votes counted, the Democratic Unity coalition won at le
Pakistan reacted angrily today after Nato said US helicopters had crossed into its territory from Afghanistan to attack militants, claiming to have killed more than 50 Taliban fighters. The admission that two incursions had taken place over the weekend by helicopters from the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), and possibly a further cross-border raid today, came after recent
Last week saw music fans despairing at the news that London's historic 100 Club venue on Oxford Street was facing closure. Could it really be true that the birthplace of British punk rock and a home to British jazz might be no longer? Yes, basically. The Evening Standard reported that the venue is under the threat of closure due to spiralling overheads – its rates bill has hit £4,000 a month while
Chinese police are investigating a Beijing firm for holding people in illegal jails that the government says do not exist, state media reported today. According to China Daily, the company charged local officials to seize and lock up complainants, preventing them from taking their grievances to central authorities. Local authorities are penalised when petitioners from their areas complain to highe
Japan demanded today that China pay for repairs to coastguard vessels damaged in a recent collision with a Chinese trawler, a day after it rejected Beijing's request to apologise and pay compensation for detaining the fishing boat's captain. Japan had hoped to draw a line under the debacle, and to begin repairing Sino-Japanese relations, by releasing the trawler's captain, Zhan Qixiong, from custo
The Bab al-Sharji district in the centre of Baghdad derives its name, which means east gate, from the medieval fortifications of the city. These walls were probably built around the first half of the 10th century. During the brief British stay at the end of the first world war, its gatehouse was used as a garrison church. Nothing of those medieval walls, or the east gate, remains today; I remember
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