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As Siblings Again Unite To Unleash Terror, Experts Ask What Drives Them
The identification of Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui as suicide bombers in the deadly Brussels attacks is confronting investigators and counterterrorism experts with a disturbingly recurrent question: Why do so many terrorists turn out to be brothers?
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Italian Cuisine Worth Going To Prison For
It is hard to imagine a less likely culinary success story than InGalera, or a more intriguing experiment in rehabilitating inmates - and confronting public attitudes about them.
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Bursts of Chaos and Horror, Once Again
A Parisian year that began with the bloodshed and chaos of the terrorist attacks at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and later at a Jewish grocery now had an even deadlier coda: With events still fluid and exact details unclear, the authorities said more than 100 people had been killed in a series of attacks across Paris. And dozens of people ...
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Why rest of world says BRICS is far from delivering
As the shock waves of the global recession convulsed Europe and the United States three years ago, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China gathered for a meeting that seemed to signal a new era. They had global buzz as rising economic powers, a catchy acronym, BRIC, and an ambitious agenda to remake an international monetary system long domi...
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International media on Tibetan protests in Delhi
With President Hu Jintao of China arriving here for a diplomatic summit meeting, the Indian authorities sought on Wednesday to prevent Tibetans from staging anti-China protests, as paramilitary officers closed down the city's Tibetan neighborhoods. Tibetan activists said more than 250 people were jailed.
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Foreign media on Lokpal Bill fiasco
India's coalition government failed on Thursday to push through legislation to create an independent anticorruption agency, after an exhausting day of parliamentary speechmaking, political posturing and backroom negotiations could not produce a deal, possibly stalling the bill for months.
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In Dharavi, misery, work, politics, hope
At the edge of India's greatest slum, Shaikh Mobin's decrepit shanty is cleaved like a wedding cake, four layers high and sliced down the middle. The missing half has been demolished. What remains appears ready for demolition, too, with temporary walls and a rickety corrugated roof.
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Foreign media on Lokpal Debate and Anna's fast
India's Parliament on Tuesday began a contentious debate over a bill to create an independent anti-corruption agency, while the activist Anna Hazare sought to rally public support for his own anti-corruption demands by beginning a three-day hunger strike in Mumbai.
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Janardhana Reddy's arrest makes foreign headlines
One of India's most powerful mining barons, whose political clout and wealth have made him a controversial national figure, was arrested on Monday as investigators raided his offices and seized about $1 million in cash and more than 40 pounds of gold.Until recently, G. Janardhana Reddy was a kingmaker in Karnataka, where his family and allies once ...
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Reddy brothers and their wealth made foreign headlines
Janardhana Reddy insists he is not a king. No, no, no, he protested, as a servant trotted across the courtyard to deliver a cup of cooled water. Men with machine guns stood outside. An architect waited to discuss the new mansion, while another man hovered nearby, sitting in the grass. "He's the state minister of health," Mr Reddy said of the man in...
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Billionaires' rise aids India, and the favour is returned
India's new billionaires attest to the private sector's growth in areas once controlled by the state such as telecommunications, ports, airports, banks and infrastructure.
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The Gurgaon story: A mirror to India's growth
In this city that barely existed two decades ago, there are 26 shopping malls, seven golf courses and luxury shops selling Chanel and Louis Vuitton. Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs shimmer in automobile showrooms. Apartment towers are sprouting like concrete weeds, and a futuristic commercial hub called Cyber City houses many of the world's most respected...
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Bihar: International media on Nitish victory
Out in the flat, dusty plains of eastern India, Nitish Kumar stood before several thousand farmers at a recent campaign rally and described his turnaround of India's poorest and once most ungovernable state, Bihar. Law and order had been restored. Roads and bridges had been built. More women were holding elective office and fewer and fewer girls we...
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India, seeking Kashmir peace, feels the anger of residents
The Indian members of Parliament left their shoes on the floor beneath a wall covered in photographs of slain Kashmiris. The five men sat cross-legged on the floor of the headquarters of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, staring into a throng of television cameras as they delivered a carefully scripted message of reconciliation."We have come to g...
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India's protests are cherished and maligned
This kaleidoscopic city of 15 million people stopped dead last Tuesday. Flights were canceled at the airport. The streets, ordinarily throbbing with traffic and humanity, were almost empty. And thousands of shopkeepers like Wazeed Khan shuttered their stores in observance of a familiar Indian ritual -- the shutdown strike. The shutdown was called b...
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As Siblings Again Unite To Unleash Terror, Experts Ask What Drives Them
The identification of Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui as suicide bombers in the deadly Brussels attacks is confronting investigators and counterterrorism experts with a disturbingly recurrent question: Why do so many terrorists turn out to be brothers?
-
Italian Cuisine Worth Going To Prison For
It is hard to imagine a less likely culinary success story than InGalera, or a more intriguing experiment in rehabilitating inmates - and confronting public attitudes about them.
-
Bursts of Chaos and Horror, Once Again
A Parisian year that began with the bloodshed and chaos of the terrorist attacks at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and later at a Jewish grocery now had an even deadlier coda: With events still fluid and exact details unclear, the authorities said more than 100 people had been killed in a series of attacks across Paris. And dozens of people ...
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Why rest of world says BRICS is far from delivering
As the shock waves of the global recession convulsed Europe and the United States three years ago, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China gathered for a meeting that seemed to signal a new era. They had global buzz as rising economic powers, a catchy acronym, BRIC, and an ambitious agenda to remake an international monetary system long domi...
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International media on Tibetan protests in Delhi
With President Hu Jintao of China arriving here for a diplomatic summit meeting, the Indian authorities sought on Wednesday to prevent Tibetans from staging anti-China protests, as paramilitary officers closed down the city's Tibetan neighborhoods. Tibetan activists said more than 250 people were jailed.
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Foreign media on Lokpal Bill fiasco
India's coalition government failed on Thursday to push through legislation to create an independent anticorruption agency, after an exhausting day of parliamentary speechmaking, political posturing and backroom negotiations could not produce a deal, possibly stalling the bill for months.
-
In Dharavi, misery, work, politics, hope
At the edge of India's greatest slum, Shaikh Mobin's decrepit shanty is cleaved like a wedding cake, four layers high and sliced down the middle. The missing half has been demolished. What remains appears ready for demolition, too, with temporary walls and a rickety corrugated roof.
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Foreign media on Lokpal Debate and Anna's fast
India's Parliament on Tuesday began a contentious debate over a bill to create an independent anti-corruption agency, while the activist Anna Hazare sought to rally public support for his own anti-corruption demands by beginning a three-day hunger strike in Mumbai.
-
Janardhana Reddy's arrest makes foreign headlines
One of India's most powerful mining barons, whose political clout and wealth have made him a controversial national figure, was arrested on Monday as investigators raided his offices and seized about $1 million in cash and more than 40 pounds of gold.Until recently, G. Janardhana Reddy was a kingmaker in Karnataka, where his family and allies once ...
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Reddy brothers and their wealth made foreign headlines
Janardhana Reddy insists he is not a king. No, no, no, he protested, as a servant trotted across the courtyard to deliver a cup of cooled water. Men with machine guns stood outside. An architect waited to discuss the new mansion, while another man hovered nearby, sitting in the grass. "He's the state minister of health," Mr Reddy said of the man in...
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Billionaires' rise aids India, and the favour is returned
India's new billionaires attest to the private sector's growth in areas once controlled by the state such as telecommunications, ports, airports, banks and infrastructure.
-
The Gurgaon story: A mirror to India's growth
In this city that barely existed two decades ago, there are 26 shopping malls, seven golf courses and luxury shops selling Chanel and Louis Vuitton. Mercedes-Benzes and BMWs shimmer in automobile showrooms. Apartment towers are sprouting like concrete weeds, and a futuristic commercial hub called Cyber City houses many of the world's most respected...
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Bihar: International media on Nitish victory
Out in the flat, dusty plains of eastern India, Nitish Kumar stood before several thousand farmers at a recent campaign rally and described his turnaround of India's poorest and once most ungovernable state, Bihar. Law and order had been restored. Roads and bridges had been built. More women were holding elective office and fewer and fewer girls we...
-
India, seeking Kashmir peace, feels the anger of residents
The Indian members of Parliament left their shoes on the floor beneath a wall covered in photographs of slain Kashmiris. The five men sat cross-legged on the floor of the headquarters of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, staring into a throng of television cameras as they delivered a carefully scripted message of reconciliation."We have come to g...
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India's protests are cherished and maligned
This kaleidoscopic city of 15 million people stopped dead last Tuesday. Flights were canceled at the airport. The streets, ordinarily throbbing with traffic and humanity, were almost empty. And thousands of shopkeepers like Wazeed Khan shuttered their stores in observance of a familiar Indian ritual -- the shutdown strike. The shutdown was called b...
