Backtracking on his earlier statements, Japan’s celebrity academic argued that terms like “mass suicide” and “mass seppuku” were intended as “abstract metaphors.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry provided no further details and did not identify the targets of such measures.
An independent of a conservative bent, Nikos Christodoulides had the backing not only of the outgoing president but that of centrist and right-of-center parties as well.
Demonstrators protest a planned judicial reform that they believe will render Israel’s system of checks and balances if not compromised, practically non-existent.
The former Brazilian president’s return to his native country would come with risk. Authorities accuse him of having stoked an uprising against Lula’s presidency.
The motion constitutes somewhat of an uneasy compromise, as it tries to accommodate both proponents and opponents of same-sex marriage while pleasing neither.
As vice president of the delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula, Tarabella took a favorable view of Qatar, in spite of its poor human and workers’ rights record.
The Swedish Security Service cited the January 21st burning of the Quran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm as a major catalyst.
The Dutch defense minister warned that Russia “continues to mobilize” and that “there are signs that Russia is preparing a new offensive.”
All 47 defendants, among whom are well-known pro-democracy activists like former student leader Joshua Wong and lawyer Benny Tai, risk life in prison.
According to the NGO Human Rights Activists in Iran, a total of 19,600 people involved with the recent protests have been arrested.
Dmitry Medvedev said that “all of Ukraine still remaining under Kyiv’s rule will go up in flames,” should the new U.S. missiles be used to attack either mainland Russia or Crimea.
