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Bolshoi Ballet artistic director Sergei Filin attacked with acid in Moscow Jan 18th 2013, 20:47 MOSCOW — Snow was falling in the late-night darkness Thursday when a masked figure called out the name of the most influential man at the Bolshoi Ballet — and threw acid in his face. The victim, Sergei Filin, was badly burned, and his sight is threatened. Read full article >> China could try to block eventual Korean unification, report says Jan 18th 2013, 18:19 TOKYO — A recent report by Senate Republican staff members warns that China, because of its deepening economic ties with North Korea as well as its ancient claims on Korean land, could attempt to "manage, and conceivably block," an eventual unification between the two Koreas, if ever the Kim family falls from power in Pyongyang. Read full article >> Understanding the Algeria crisis, with help from David Cameron Jan 18th 2013, 18:08 British Prime Minister David Cameron, in a speech before the House of Commons Friday morning, laid out what could be the clearest narrative yet of Algeria's hostage crisis from an official source. His detailed, well-informed description of the events as he understands them is a useful primer both for understanding what happened and for seeing the emerging Western narrative, which increasingly portrays the crisis as disastrously mismanaged. Read full article >> First-hand hostage accounts from the attack in Algeria Jan 18th 2013, 17:00 About 32 foreign hostages are still unaccounted for in the standoff with Islamist militants at an Algerian gas plant, according to the Algerian state news service. In statements Friday, London-based BP, Norway's Statoil and other companies said many hostages had escaped or were rescued in the military operation launched by Algerian troops at dawn Thursday. The plant is jointly run by BP, Statoil and the Algerian state energy company, Sonatrach Read full article >> Mali's refugees on life under Islamists: executions, amputations and child soldiers Jan 18th 2013, 15:50 It's never easy for outsiders to learn what happens in a remote country occupied by hostile militants. But the more time passes in Mali under the Islamist rebels' months-old rule, the worse it appears for those who live there.. Stories out of the towns under Islamist control have included, as The Washington Post's Sudarsan Raghavan reported, forcibly "marrying" some women and beating others for daring to interact with men. Read full article >> A surprising map of countries that have the most traffic deaths Jan 18th 2013, 15:13 For evidence that driving works a little differently outside of America, look no further than this video of Russian drivers, whose sheer outrageousness propelled them to Internet fame a few months ago: Read full article >>

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