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Video stills of, clockwise from top left, Hamza Hirazi, the commander who oversaw the torture at Yarmouk; a prisoner being interrogated; an interrogator; and a prisoner who was later killed. Credit...Jehad Nga for The New York Times One night last September, a prisoner named Naji Najjar was brought, blindfolded and handcuffed, to an abandoned military base on the outskirts of Tripoli. A group of y
Central Chongqing this month. The city has grown fast, fueled by infrastructure projects led by its now-ousted leader, Bo Xilai.Credit...Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times CHONGQING, China — After the economies of Western nations imploded in late 2008, Chinese leaders began boasting of their nation’s supremacy. Talk spread, not only in China but also across the West, of the advantages of the so-
By Frankie Edozien May 10, 2012 10:41 pm May 10, 2012 10:41 pm Kim Hong-Ji/ReutersThe 1,000th weekly anti-Japan rally held by former comfort women and their advocates in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul on Dec. 14, 2011. NEW YORK — Every Wednesday since January 1992, protestors have held a demonstration outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul demanding an official apology and compensation from
Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, was recently captured on video asserting that there are "78 to 81" Democrats in Congress who are members of the Communist Party. Of course, it's not unusual for some renegade lawmaker from either side of the aisle to say something outrageous. What made West's comment — right out of the McCarthyite playbook of the 1950s — so striking was the almost complete la
Chinese shop assistants wait for customers in a store in Beijing. China's exports and imports grew more slowly than expected last month.Credit...How Hwee Young/European Pressphoto Agency HONG KONG — As China’s leaders have been preoccupied with a political struggle leading up to a once-in-a-decade leadership change this autumn, there are increasing signs that the Chinese economy may be running int
【パリ宮川裕章】6日のフランス大統領選で17年ぶりの政権交代を実現した社会党のフランソワ・オランド前第1書記の陣営が政治、経済の両面で対日関係重視をうたった報告書を作成していたことが分かった。サルコジ大統領の中国偏重路線とは一線を画する内容で、新大統領の外交政策に影響を与えるとみられる。新政権が東アジア外交の軸足を中国から日本に移せば、中国の軍事力拡大を警戒する日本にとって「援軍」になりそうだ。 ◇中国偏重批判の報告書 「岐路の日本:信頼関係の再構築」と題された報告書は計11ページ。社会党がオランド政権発足に備え、選挙前、仏国内の研究者に委託して作成した。報告書は「経済、戦略の両面で世界の未来を左右する地域」としてアジアを重視、特に日本を「アジアにおける最初の現代民主国家」「フランスの無視できないパートナー」と位置づけている。
Rebel fighters in the Nuba mountains of the South Kordofan area in Sudan.Credit...Goran Tomasevic/Reuters MAYOM WEL, South Sudan — On a recent blistering afternoon, this village danced in an open field. Women sashayed, hoisting chairs over their heads. Barefoot children scampered. Old men, with skin as dry and cracked as the bark of a savanna tree, jabbed rifles toward the burning sky. “We are not
Patrons at Hartigan’s Irish Pub in Charlotte, N.C., watched as President Obama discussed same-sex marriage on ABC.Credit...John W. Adkisson for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Before President Obama left the White House on Tuesday morning to fly to an event in Albany, several aides intercepted him in the Oval Office. Within minutes it was decided: the president would endorse same-sex marriage on W
The identity of the lover to whom Federico García Lorca wrote passionate verse in his final year has been a mystery ever since the poet's assassination during the Spanish civil war. But now, more than 70 years later, his name has finally emerged. The art critic and journalist Juan Ramírez de Lucas kept a box of mementoes of their year-long passionate relationship, including a previously unseen poe
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