Gunmen stormed Chechnya's parliament building today in Grozny, killing three people and injuring at least 17, in the latest audacious military operation by the region's rejuvenated Islamist underground. One insurgent detonated a bomb outside the gates at 8.45am local time, killing himself and wounding others. Two more gunmen then ran into the building shouting, "Allahu Akbar!" ("God is great" in A
The yen has strengthened to a 15-year high against the dollar in recent weeks The Japanese economy is at a standstill, Japan's government has said, as concerns about the strong yen continue to grow. The recovery in the economy was "pausing", the Cabinet Office said in a monthly statement. It is the most negative the government has been about the economy in nearly two years. The rising yen and a sl
Succession in China Next in line CHINESE state media today announced the appointment of Xi Jinping, the country's vice-president, to an important military post. His promotion cements Mr Xi's status as the man who is expected to take over as China's top leader in two years' time, when the current president, Hu Jintao, is due to step aside. Coming at the end of a four-day plenary meeting of the Comm
The prominent dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, one of the first signers of Charter 08, who was taken away by police on December 8, 2008, and is believed to be in police custody The document below, signed by more than two thousand Chinese citizens, was conceived and written in conscious admiration of the founding of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia, where, in January 1977, more than two hundred Czech and S
A vacant lot on East 110th Street in New York in 1952: the study of urban blight has long been influenced by political fashions.Credit...William C. Eckenberg/The New York Times For more than 40 years, social scientists investigating the causes of poverty have tended to treat cultural explanations like Lord Voldemort: That Which Must Not Be Named. The reticence was a legacy of the ugly battles that
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