As my colleague Isabel Kershner reported, an Israeli government review panel asserted on Sunday that a French tv report broadcast in 2000, which appeared to show the death of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy named Muhammad al-Dura during clashes in Gaza, was so deeply flawed that it was possible that the ...
Last Updated, 12:40 p.m. As my colleague Ellen Barry reports from Moscow, Russia’s Federal Security Service, the successor to the Soviet-era K.G.B., announced Tuesday that it had arrested a Central Intelligence Agency officer posing as an American diplomat as he tried to recruit a Russian agent. The Russian intelligence bureau ...
As our colleague Andrew Kramer reports, about 26,000 protesters rallied in Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square on Monday, on the first anniversary of a protest in the same location that was marred by violence and followed by mass arrests and a police crackdown. As ever, the protest was extensively documented by the ...
April has been a busy month for retail franchise chains in the U.S. New franchise legislation in California and a push for changes in the national laws pertaining to franchised auto selling are seeking to redefine franchising parameters and relationships. The anniversary of the first McDonald’s (MCD) franchise this month ...
LONDON — There will have been many among the 2,300 invited guests at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral who were “handbagged” by the Iron Lady, and dined happily off the experience for years after she had left public life. That I was a bit-part player among the legion of fools and incompetents judged ...
Here is a transcript of a telephone interview with Anzor Tsarnaev, the dad of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, conducted Friday by Ellen Barry and Andrew Roth of The New York Times’s Moscow bureau. Anything strange when you last spoke to your sons? Nothing strange, nothing at all. ...
Shortly before his trial on embezzlement charges was to begin, the blogger and opposition activist Aleksei Navalny, 36, sat down for an interview in the Moscow office of his anti-corruption fund. His office was as sparse as a hotel conference room, and the molding had been stripped from his doorway ...
A video of hundreds celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher in London on Monday. Even in ancient Sparta, apparently, people had to be advised to resist the urge to talk ill of the dead. According to Diogenes Laertius, among the precepts held dear by Chilon of Sparta was that “of ...
Just two weeks after a Greek soccer player who celebrated a goal with a fascist salute was barred from representing his country for life, an Italian coach who made the same gesture repeatedly during his playing days has been hired by a club in England’s top division. The appointment of ...
Starbucks (SBUX), Target (TGT), and The Gap (GPS) are the most ethical retail companies of all ethical companies in the world. That’s a bold statement, but one that the Ethisphere Institute is not afraid to make, based on the research that it has been doing on business ethics, and the ...
Last Updated, 2:09 p.m. Croatia now leads 2-0 at the half. Twitter updates from journalists in the stadium in Zagreb — including James Montague, who writes as @JamesPiotr — will be added at the foot of this post as the match progresses. As my colleague James Montague reports, Friday’s World ...
Defending Britain’s participation in the American-led invasion of Iraq, former Prime Minister Tony Blair told the BBC that Iraq “would look a lot more like Syria, and probably a lot worse than Syria,” this day if the war had not taken place. Mr. Blair’s comments were broadcast as at least ...
Giorgos Katidis, a 20-year-old Greek soccer player who celebrated a game-winning goal on Saturday by giving a Nazi salute to fans in Athens, has been banned for life from representing his country in international tournaments. The Hellenic Football Federation met Sunday in response to the incident the night before and ...
As 115 cardinals prepare to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Times reporters covering the papal transition answered readers’ questions on the conclave process, the future of the church and the retirement of Pope Benedict XVI. Q: Who is the leader of the Catholic Church during the ...
The trailer for Riot, a new video game. Accompanied by ominous music, shouts and sirens, the video shows a series of turbulent scenes: a man throwing an explosive into a police car, someone kicking a shop window and uniformed officers launching projectiles and marching with shields. Over the past few ...
Last Updated, 9:07 a.m. As our colleagues Ellen Barry and Andrew Kramer report, Russians recorded video of bright objects, apparently debris from a meteorite, “streaking through the sky in western Siberia early on Friday, accompanied by a boom that damaged buildings across a vast area of territory.” Hundreds of injuries ...
The Lede is providing updates on Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement on Monday that he intends to resign on Feb. 28, less than eight years after he took office, the first pope to do so in six centuries. (Turn off auto-refresh to watch videos.) 4:17 P.M. |Subtitled Video of Pope’s Resignation ...
