After Charlie Hebdo attack, U.S. Catholic group says cartoonists ‘provoked’ slaughter

In the aftermath of the deadly assault on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical newspaper, much of the world has rallied in solidarity with the publication, its irreverent cartoonists and their right to free speech. But not everyone is so supportive. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, a U.S. organization that "defends […]

















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Who’s in charge in Michoacan? Mexican government and militias struggle for control.

MEXICO CITY — What began as a scrappy band of Mexican farmers rising up against a brutal drug cartel in the western state of Michoacan has devolved into a confusing mess of factions fighting each other and the government. The latest sign of trouble in Michoacan came early Tuesday, when shootouts erupted between Mexican soldiers […]

















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China police inadvertently admit to buying malware to spy on citizens

BEIJING – Don’t click on links sent by strangers, the police in one Chinese district warned last year, because malware known as Trojan horses use all sort of tricks to burrow into people’s phones and computers. “Curiosity hurts,” the Public Security Bureau in the city of Wenzhou in southeastern China posted on its social media […]

















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China censors criticism and reporting of Shanghai’s deadly New Year stampede

BEIJING – Even as China’s president ordered an investigation into a New Year’s Eve stampede in Shanghai that killed 36 people, the nation’s censors and police were hard at work – restricting independent reporting of the incident, curtailing interviews with relatives of the victims and intimidating critics. Shanghai police have admitted they failed to deploy […]

















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The president of prime time: On Venezuela TV, Maduro is interrupter-in-chief

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had a lot to say in 2014. So much, it turns out, that he interrupted regularly-scheduled programming to command Venezuela's airwaves 103 times last year, speaking for a combined 174 hours and 25 minutes, according to a year-end tally by El Nacional. The total did not include other government programming that […]

















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