Twelve people have died after a fire tore through a Moscow market warehouse where migrant workers were living.
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Following the March 22 coup that ousted President Amadou Toumani Touré, the north of Mali is in the hands of a Tuareg rebellion. It is a rolling series of events that has leaders across the region worrying about similar threats.
Essay: You would think having more women in the boardroom would lead to more cautious management, but a new study finds that female financial executives tend to take more risks than men — sometimes in a troubling attempt to imitate their male counterpart
Aung San Suu Kyi, icon of the Burmese opposition, will finally head to Parliament following historic elections. But this day came only after President Thein Sein’s surprise commitment to reform. Still, true democracy will need Thein Sein to outfo
Analysis: As Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff prepares to arrive in Washington to meet President Obama, a closer look at the bilateral relations between these Western Hemisphere powerhouses shows vast potential, much of it unfulfilled.
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party says it had won at least 43 out of the 44 parliamentary seats that it contested in the southeast Asian country’s parliamentary by-elections.
Unemployment across countries that use the euro edged higher in February to 10.8%, the highest level since the introduction of the single currency in 1999. Spain has the highest rate of 23.6%.
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Russian plane crash kills 31
A Russian passenger plane crashed and burst into flames after takeoff in an oil-producing region of Siberia. Thirteen survivors were pulled from the wreckage and rushed to hospital by helicopter.
Essay: Liuliu, one of China’s best-selling authors and keenest observant chroniclers of modern life, has decided to expose her marriage crisis on her Twitter-like microblog account. It is a plot twist that cannot be undone.
Whether it is to avoid the nursing home, loneliness or rising rents, co-housing is the new trend for a generation of baby-boomers staring at 60 and beyond.
Asia is going through its own so-called “Fordist” phase, as countries are introducing minimum wage standards and multiplying some salaries by five in order to turn citizens into consumers. But what does this mean for the rest of the worl
A right-wing politician wants the public’s help hunting for foreign-born criminals in Switzerland. Echoing the outrage in the U.S. over the shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin, Swiss critics say this is the most dangerous kind of racial pro
Cinzia Pasquali had the honor of restoring Leonardo Da Vinci’s prized oil painting “The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne,” now featured at the Louvre. The assignment was 18 months fraught with nerves, in-fighting and endless int
It is considered common wisdom among Western analysts that Muslim countries are plagued with large families and ever-swelling masses of young people are a threat to stability. Only problem is all the hard evidence to the contrary.
A law introduced in the Russian Parliament this week aims to punish “homosexual propaganda” aimed at children. Critics are worried this is just another way to outlaw homosexuality.
How three African men escaping the civil war in Libya braved the Mediterranean Sea on a small fishing boat to find love in the most unexpected circumstances.
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Afghan Policeman Kills 9 Sleeping Officers
Taliban suspected after Afghan policeman kills nine of his fellow officers as they lay sleeping in a village in the eastern Paktika province.
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Annan calls for ‘immediate’ Syria ceasefire
Annan says “deadline is now” for Syrian troops to halt their assaults, as diplomatic momentum is put at risk.
French president compares the effect in France of this month’s seven murders by a self-proclaimed Islamic radical to the trauma of the Sep. 11 attacks in the U.S.
The new status symbol for China’s ultra rich businessmen: a private jet. But before this fad can truly take off, authorities have to loosen up strict regulations governing the domestic airspace.
As Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers fight to have his civil suit dismissed in New York, he faces an even more difficult legal fight in the French city of Lille. Stephanie Ausbart, the magistrate who has just charged DSK with “aggravated pimping,
The Turkish government wants to isolate the armed Kurdish rebel group PKK, while opening up to the Kurds themselves. Ankara takes a lesson from Europe’s recent past, with an eye on how Kurds in Iraq and even Syria will affect the outcome.
Did you say Cocoa Chanel? Daring designs, fancy hairdressers, lickable tattoos, edible clothes. Switzerland, which is chocolate heaven even on a bad day, is wearing its sweetest delicacies on its sleeve as the Salon du Chocolat comes to Zurich for the fir
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Toulouse gunman denied burial in Algeria
Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah is to be buried in France after Algerian authorities deny permission for a burial.
Huge traffic jams snarl central Madrid, as Spain’s first general strike in more than a year kicks off with nine people slightly injured in demonstrations, including police officers.
Japan hangs three convicted multiple murderers, its first executions in almost two years, putting it back alongside the United States as the only leading developed nations to carry out the death penalty.
Chinese bureaucracy will soon deprive us of one of life’s immense pleasures: ordering ‘drunken shrimp’, ‘happy meatballs’ or ‘chicken without sex’ from a menu. These inventive, often poetic translati
It took only a few years for this little start-up to become a digital ‘what-to-do’ phenomenon: without any advertising, it has 800.000 readers and growing…
Thanks to new technology from a Chilean-based company, massive water playgrounds are popping up from Singapore to Santiago. Could it put an end to the eternal poolside v. seaside debate?
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If Egypt Loses Its Sense Of Humor
Essay: Egyptian comedian Adel Imam faces potential jail time for a series of allegedly “blasphemous” films from two decades ago. Much is at stake as the forces of free expression and pious Islam face off in “Arab Spring, the Sequel…”
German authors have found a new way of cataloging economic, social and environmental gaps between the Western industrialized world and developing countries. This sucky stuff atlas aims to heighten awareness of our wasteful society, a little bit of trivia
A Swiss mountaintop is not the place you’d expect the “world’s best smoked salmon” to come from. But the Balik farm sends its perfectly sliced and salted catch around the world, thanks to a secret recipe handed down fro
Syrian government forces keep up heavy weapons fire and siege tactics against opposition strongholds despite President Bashar al-Assad’s acceptance of a peace plan calling for the army to withdraw to its barracks.
Energy giant Total is trying to contain a gas leak that forced the evacuation of a well off the coast of Scotland.
To save time, money and staff, many German health facilities treat dementia patients with powerful drugs that serve no other purpose but to keep them quiet. By some estimates, the practice affects some 240,000 people in Germany.
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Pope meets President Raul Castro in Havana
Pope Benedict XVI meets Cuban President Raul Castro on the second day of his visit to the communist-run island, and is to meet Fidel Castro later.
The reassigning of US prosecutors away from foreign tax fraud cases is the latest sign that the standoff between Washington and Bern may be moving rapidly toward a final, negotiated settlement. Heads rolling at top Swiss banks may have helped pave the way
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Stalin And The Macho Cult of Mass Murder
History tells us that purges, show trials and other sadistic state policies were integral to the birth and expansion of the Soviet Union. But a new book focuses on how Stalin helped form the unique “boot and leather jacket-wearing” character of the Bolshe
Pyongyang has announced a satellite launch to honor Kim II Sung. China knows the real object of such a move is to reinforce the power of newly installed Kim Jong-Un. It will also raise the stakes in the region just when Beijing is badly in need of stabili
Interview: Anders Breivik is unlike any client attorney Geir Lippestad has ever had – and not just because of the ghastly number of murders he’s accused of. As Lippestad tells Le Monde, Breivik admits to killing 77 mostly young Norwegians and exp