@nytimesworld 6 years ago As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to Beijing for the first state visit by a Japanese leader in years, no one is expecting miracles. “This is a good beginning — better than a deterioration,” said one Chinese analyst. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 6 years ago 50 years ago, the massacre at Tlatelolco decimated Mexico's student movement. It also marked the first time that a mass movement confronted the authoritarian control of Mexico’s one-party state. nyti.ms
@WSJ 7 years ago Two Reuters journalists have been sentenced to seven years in prison for violating Myanmar’s state-secrets law on.wsj.com
@guardian 7 years ago Vietnam jails two Americans for 14 years for trying to 'overthrow state' trib.al
@BBCWorld 7 years ago Turkey ends state of emergency after two years bbc.in
@nytimesworld 7 years ago The extraordinary precautions to protect Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in his brief visit to Afghanistan on Monday demonstrated that security conditions are some of the worst in 17 years of war nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 7 years ago The municipal government in the Iraqi city of Mosul is struggling to keep pace with the city's rapid return to normal life after years of rule by Islamic State nyti.ms t.co
@theatlantic.com 7 years ago Trump Throws Ronny Jackson Under the Bus
@theatlantic.com 7 years ago The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Macron America Great Again
@WSJ 7 years ago When Paul Ryan retires from the House after 20 years in Washington, he will be returning to a state, Wisconsin, with an economy that shows signs of strength but that faces challenges on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 7 years ago Nearly everyone applying for a visa to enter the United States — an estimated 14.7 million people a year — will be asked to submit their social-media user names for the past five years: State Dept. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 7 years ago The Islamic State, whose appearance in Afghanistan in recent years has eroded already wobbly security, claimed responsibility Friday for the attack. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 6 years ago As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to Beijing for the first state visit by a Japanese leader in years, no one is expecting miracles. “This is a good beginning — better than a deterioration,” said one Chinese analyst. nyti.ms
@spiegel.de 6 years ago Far-Right Populism: How the Alternative for Germany Has Transformed the Country
@wsj.com 7 years ago Myanmar Jails Reuters Journalists Investigating Rohingya Killings
@nytimesworld 7 years ago The mayor was tired. Asleep-at-3am, awake-at-6am tired. Tired the way you cannot help but be after years of the Islamic State squatting in your town, killing your citizens and forcing the army to quarantine you from the rest of the country. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 7 years ago Taliban insurgents are refraining from attacks on civilians and suicide bombings for the first time in many years, officials said. The Islamic State made no similar move, however. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 7 years ago The extraordinary precautions to protect Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in his brief visit to Afghanistan on Monday demonstrated that security conditions are some of the worst in 17 years of war. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 7 years ago Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came to Israel Sunday in the midst of the worst crisis in relations between Israelis and Palestinians in years, but he did not meet a single Palestinian representative and mentioned them publicly just once. nyti.ms
@theatlantic.com 7 years ago Anyone Can Use the ISIS Menu of Mayhem
@theatlantic.com 7 years ago 23andMe Wants Its DNA Data to Be Less White
@WSJ 7 years ago N.J. office leasing declined in the first quarter of 2018, but the state posted its lowest vacancy rate in nine years on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 7 years ago For 20 years, Swedish preschools are required by the state to “counteract traditional gender roles and gender patterns.” Exactly how this has affected the children remains unclear nyti.ms
@WSJ 7 years ago The message came just hours after the North’s state media said it would 'never have face-to-face talks with them even after 100 years or 200 years' on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 6 years ago Mount Athos, or the Autonomous Monastic State of the Holy Mountain, is a place apart. Women are banned and there are no hotels, no bars, no stores, no television and no swimming. Monks have been chanting psalms here 365 days a year for over 1,000 years. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 6 years ago In 1993, the signing of the Oslo accords was greeted with giddy optimism as a step toward peace and a Palestinian state. 25 years later, there is no peace agreement, no state and not even talks. nyti.ms
@WSJ 7 years ago “We were sent to prison to close the eyes and ears of people in Myanmar,” said Kyaw Soe Oo, one of two Reuters journalists sentenced to seven years for obtaining state records on.wsj.com
@WSJ 7 years ago Israel's Druze minority say a new nation-state law is an affront that discounts over 70 years of contributions: “The state of Israel respects our dead, but not our living.” on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 7 years ago The extraordinary precautions to protect Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in his brief visit to Afghanistan on Monday demonstrated that security conditions are some of the worst in 17 years of war nyti.ms
@WSJ 7 years ago Golden State now has three NBA championship titles in four years after crushing LeBron James and the other Cleveland Cavaliers, 108-85, on Friday night on.wsj.com
@WSJ 7 years ago After more than 40 years of fruitless tips and leads that led nowhere, investigators looking for the elusive Golden State Killer suspect got their big break with the help of genealogy websites on.wsj.com
@theatlantic.com 7 years ago Armenia's Democratic Triumph
@theatlantic.com 7 years ago The Reinvention of America
@theatlantic.com 7 years ago Obama's Chemical Weapons Deal Can't Stop Syria's Chemical Attacks
@nytimesworld 7 years ago Rex Tillerson laid a wreath on Sunday at a Nairobi memorial commemorating a bombing 20 years ago that killed more than 200 people, an attack that transformed the State Department. Critics warn that his proposed funding cuts could cost lives. nyti.ms
@channel4.com 7 years ago Can Dundar: Jailing journalists in Turkey ‘way of silencing media’
@theatlantic.com 6 years ago Some Immigrant Parents Fear Losing Their Children Forever
@nytimesworld 6 years ago The Oslo accords were expected to lead to peace and a Palestinian state. Twenty-five years later, they have produced neither. nyti.ms
@WSJ 7 years ago "We're broke," says New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney. The Democrat is proposing to shift new state employees and those employed for less than five years of service to a hybrid pension and 401(k)-style plan on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 7 years ago Taliban insurgents are refraining from attacks on civilians and suicide bombings for the first time in many years, officials said. The Islamic State made no similar move, however. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 7 years ago The extraordinary precautions to protect Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in his brief visit to Afghanistan on Monday demonstrated that security conditions are some of the worst in 17 years of war nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 7 years ago Two prominent critics of Hindu nationalism in India were killed at their homes two years apart in the same state. They were also killed by the same gun, a forensic report said. nyti.ms
@WSJ 7 years ago Fifty years after Johnny Cash played at Folsom State Prison, the band Los Tigres del Norte plays it again—this time, in Spanish on.wsj.com
@theatlantic.com 7 years ago An Indian Politician Claimed Ancient Hindus Invented the Internet
@nytimesworld 7 years ago The airstrikes sent an unambiguous message to the Syrian leader, but he has essentially been under siege for seven years — fighting a civil war, the Islamic State, sanctions and more nyti.ms
@guardian 7 years ago Vietnam jails six activists for up to 15 years for trying to 'overthrow state’ trib.al
@WSJ 7 years ago The U.S. military has reduced its presence at an air base in Turkey, a centerpiece of the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State for several years on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 7 years ago Choi Soon-sil’s “extensive meddling in state affairs created chaos,” a South Korean court said, sentencing her to 20 years in prison nyti.ms