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Demonstrators and political opposition leaders allied with them rallied in the streets saying they would not relent until they succeeded in removing the government, including President Viktor F. Yanukovich.
South Korea’s intelligence service reported that Jang Song-thaek, considered to be No. 2 in the Pyongyang government and a mentor to Kim Jong-un, has lost his positions of influence.
Desperate to restore a competitive edge, European nations are dismantling workplace protections that once supported labor.
Vietnam’s property market is bottoming out, and the government is pledging to reform the banking sector, but doubts remain over whether it can hit pre-2008 peaks.
The Guardian’s editor said before the British Parliament that the government had tried to intimidate him.
A scientific panel’s report ruled out some doomsday notions but said dire climatic surprises seemed inevitable.
As the court takes up the case against President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, human rights groups warn that a category of privileged defendant has been created.
Using backhoes, explosive charges and a network of dams and piping, a team of experts is working to protect the Russian resort that will host the Sochi Games.
John Eliot Gardiner’s book is not intended as a straight biography so much as a thematic examination of Bach the composer as man and musician.
In “Eminent Hipsters,” Donald Fagen begins with tales about his early years in Steely Dan.
A new law restricting the right to demonstrate could squelch the most vital form of public expression left to citizens.
Ukraine was asked to forsake its oldest cultural and economic ally. Is it any wonder Kiev balked?