It's the (wo)man hunt of the century. Russian officials, increasingly fearful of a terror attack during the upcoming Sochi Olympics, are scouring the city for a potential female suicide bomber who is thought to already be in the winter resort. Ruzanna Ibragimova, the main suspect, is a so-called Black Widow - a woman willing to kill herself, and others, to avenge the death of a loved one.
Continue Reading Davos Wants You to Know It Really, Really Cares About Inequality
- BY Elias Groll
- JANUARY 21, 2014 - 05:27 PM
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Pope Francis would like the international business mandarins
assembled at Davos for the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum to know that
they really ought to be doing something about economic inequality in the world.
Continue Reading HRW Report: Myanmar's Minorities Oppressed, North Korea Worse Than Ever
- BY Catherine A. Traywick
- JANUARY 21, 2014 - 03:20 PM
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Human Rights Watch's annual human rights report doesn't make for uplifting reading. A snapshot of the human rights situation around the world, the report presents a depressing, if somewhat familiar conclusion: The perennial human rights offenders of the world haven't changed much.
Continue Reading How One Beirut Street Found Itself on the Front Lines of a Regional War
- BY David Kenner
- JANUARY 21, 2014 - 01:49 PM
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BEIRUT — At first glance, there is not much that
distinguishes al-Areed Street, in the Beirut suburb of Haret Hreik, from any other
neighborhood in the Lebanese capital. It is lined with small clothing shops,
hole-in-the-wall restaurants, and modest apartment buildings. A large mosque stands
nearby, guarded by thick cement barriers.
Continue Reading The Nine Lives of 'Russia's bin Laden'
- BY Hanna Kozlowska
- JANUARY 20, 2014 - 08:30 AM
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Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed president of Chechnya, used an unorthodox method of announcing the purported death of Russia's number one terrorist: Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service often used for celebrity selfies. Kadyrov, an Instagram fan, posted a photo of himself and used the caption to declare that Doku Umarov, the leader of the Islamic insurgency in Chechnya and self-branded "Emir of the Caucasus" had been killed. Kadyrov claimed that he had "received a recording of a conversation by so-called emirs, in which they announce [Umarov's] death, console one another, and discuss candidates for a new emir."
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