At War Blog: Why National Guard and Reservist Suicide Numbers May Be Misleading
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More than 80 percent of the services members who committed suicide in recent years had never been in combat. This is one of the many statistics that the Pentagon and researchers are currently struggling to explain. My colleague James Dao and I explore the tragic rising military suicide numbers in an article today.
The numbers above are striking. Over the course of nearly 12 years and two wars,...
DealBook: Uninvited Guest Jolts Japan’s Business Culture
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Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesSony’s entertainment unit includes a film studio and one of the largest music labels in the world, featuring artists like Carrie Underwood.
TOKYO — Devil. Vulture. Saboteur.
All these words have been used to greet Western investors who have agitated for change in Japan’s clubby and complacent corporate culture. As the hedge fund billionaire Daniel S. Loeb prepares...
Obama and Cameron Press Putin on Syria
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Speaking to reporters in the East Room at the White House, Mr. Cameron said that governments around the world had a responsibility to bring the Syrian conflict and the rule of President Bashar al-Assad to an end.
“Syria’s history is being written in the blood of its citizens,” Mr. Cameron said. “And it’s happening on our watch.”
Mr. Cameron said he recently had...
Afghanistan and U.S. Continue Talks on Future Relations
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The strategic partnership agreement outlines a set of principles and commitments for relations between Washington and Kabul after 2014, when foreign combat troops are to withdraw from Afghanistan. But there is lingering uncertainty over whether either party will be willing or able to stick to the provisions of the pact, which includes loopholes for both nations.
The meeting here on...
India Ink: Image of the Day: May 9
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The Lede: Video of Imran Khan’s Fall at Election Rally in Pakistan
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Last Updated, 2:36 p.m. Imran Khan, a former cricket superstar who has been drawing huge crowds to campaign rallies in Pakistan ahead of Saturday’s election, was rushed to a hospital in Lahore on Tuesday after he was knocked off a forklift at the edge of a stage and fell head-first to the ground, nearly 15 feet below.
As video of the incident posted on Vimeo by Karachi’s Express Tribune...
British Lawmaker Denies Rape Accusations
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In a statement to reporters outside his house in the village of Pendleton in Lancashire County said the complaints date back four years and were made “by two people who are well known to each other and who until yesterday I regarded as friends.”
Mr. Evans, 55, was interrogated by the Lancashire police for most of the day Saturday, and then was released with an order to return for...
British Independence Party Gains in Local Elections
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Once scorned by Prime Minister David Cameron as “a bunch of fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists,” the party, which wants Britain to leave the European Union and strictly control immigration, ambushed its rivals, gaining about a quarter of the vote in a series of contests in different areas of the country on Thursday.
“We have been abused by everybody, the entire establishment,”...
Besieged Syrian Leader, Bashar al-Assad, Makes Rare Appearance
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Syrian state television and the official SANA news agency said Mr. Assad mingled with workers at the Umayyad Electrical Station and congratulated them on the occasion of international Labor Day. Photographs showed Mr. Assad dressed in a dark suit as workers showed him the facility.
“They want us to be afraid. Well, we won’t be afraid,” Mr. Assad said in one television clip, as...
Karzai Acknowledges Cash Deliveries by C.I.A.
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Mr. Karzai described the sums delivered by the C.I.A. as a “small amount,” though he offered few other details. But former and current advisers of the Afghan leader have said the C.I.A. cash deliveries have totaled tens of millions of dollars over the past decade and have been used to pay off warlords, lawmakers and others whose support the Afghan leader depends upon.
The payments...
