Should breast-feeding moms ‘perhaps sit in a corner’?

LONDON — Should new moms be allowed to breast-feed in public? Should they be made to cover up? Sit in a corner? These are questions being hotly debated here following an incident at Claridge’s, one of the London’s poshest hotels. Earlier this month, new mom Louise Burns sat down for tea with her mom and […]

















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Why Putin says Crimea is Russia’s ‘Temple Mount’

Russian President Vladimir Putin has a lot of immediate concerns on his mind. He's coping with an epic economic double whammy: the toll of Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over its power play in Ukraine this year and the precipitous fall of the Russian ruble, hit by a decline in global oil prices. But, as […]

















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Days after we interviewed these former cops, Chinese authorities arrested two of them

Over the next few days, while we spent hours individually interviewing them in the squalid petition village where many now live, the others took shifts looking out for authorities on nearby street corners. And as we furtively moved from home to home – never lingering too long in one place -- this wide perimeter of lookout points moved with us.

















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The Pakistani origins of the Israeli state

"Pakistan is like Israel, an ideological state," said then Pakistani President Zia ul-Haq in 1981. "Take out the Judaism from Israel and it will fall like a house of cards. Take Islam out of Pakistan and make it a secular state; it would collapse." It's a strange thing to think about now. Pakistan and Israel […]

















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China launched an anti-corruption campaign last year. So why is its reputation getting worse?

China Daily newspaper reported a drop in the number of people taking a highly competitive exam to join the civil service. The paper said the decline was connected to the anti-corruption campaign that had dampened the attractiveness of a job in the public sector for some students.

















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