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Even as the Pakistani team faced humiliating defeat by England in a game played on the hallowed grasses of Lord’s ground in London, traditionally regarded as the home of cricket, Scotland Yard detectives interrogated three of the team’s key players — including the captain and an 18-year-old novice who has ...
PRAGUE — A man armed with armed with a submachine gun and two handguns killed six members of a Roma family in their apartment house in the Slovak capital, Bratislava, on Monday, and then, firing wildly as he tried to evade the police surrounding the building, killed another person and ...
BERLIN — A board member of Germany’s central bank provoked strong criticism on Sunday after saying that “all Jews share a particular gene” that “makes them different from other peoples,” and that Muslim immigrants across Europe are unwilling or incapable of assimilating into Western societies. Chancellor Angela Merkel said the ...
THE formal merger of Porsche and Volkswagen is not supposed to happen until next year at the earliest, but at the factory here that produces Porsche Cayenne S.U.V.’s, it seems to have started years ago. The painted Cayenne bodies arrive by train from a Volkswagen factory in Slovakia, where they ...
GENEVA — A United Nations-backed committee of experts sharply criticized France on Friday for deporting large groups of Roma and said the government in Paris should do more to combat what it called a growing racist and xenophobic tone in the country’s public debate. The 18-member committee, which issues periodic ...
GENEVA — A United Nations-backed committee of experts sharply criticized France on Friday for deporting large groups of Roma and said the government in Paris should do more to combat what it called a growing racist and xenophobic tone in the country’s public debate. The 18-member committee, which issues periodic ...
PARIS — The vulnerability of museums and high-end art owners to costly thefts has been a whispered concern in France for years, but two events here are forcing the issue into the open. A spectacular €100 million, or $127 million, burglary at the Paris modern art museum in May and ...
For now, he leads Friday Prayer in a stadium normally used for rock concerts. When sites were proposed for mosques in Padua and Bologna, Italy, a few years ago, opponents from the anti-immigrant Northern League paraded pigs around them. The projects were canceled. In that light, the furor over the ...
In other times and in other places, these would-be regicides might have been hounded by the king’s agents. But here in liberal Sweden, they are thriving. Indeed, so fast has membership in the Swedish Republican Association grown in recent months, rising to more than 7,300 from 2,500 one year ago, ...
In fact, said Mr. Fidenato, 49, an agronomist, he planted two fields of genetically modified corn. But since “corn looks like corn,” as he put it, it took his opponents weeks to find his crop. The seeds, known as MON810, are modified so that the corn produces a chemical that ...
After a forced 11-month absence from the event that she had bolted from obscurity to dominate, Semenya returned to competition last month after receiving confirmation from track and field’s governing body, the I.A.A.F., that she could compete as a woman. On Sunday, on the same blue track in the Olympic ...
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — The man suspected of organizing twin suicide bombings that killed 40 people in the Moscow subway system in March was killed in a shootout with Russian security forces on Saturday, officials said. Magomedali Vagabov and four others were killed during a gunfight with special forces in the ...