Issue: July 03, 2012   (Archive)
Wednesday, June 19, 2013   

Old rulers charge back to power
Aided by fury at Mexico's brutal drug violence, youthful leader Enrique Pena Nieto has delivered a stunning return to power for the country's once-reviled Institutional Revolutionary Party.



Germany hit by probe blunders in race murders
The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency has quit over blunders made in a probe of 10 murders, mainly of immigrants and blamed on a neo-Nazi gang.

Ozawa jumps ship over party tax hike
"Shadow Shogun" Ichiro Ozawa and his supporters yesterday stormed out of Japan's ruling party in protest at a sales tax increase, in a move that reduces but does not overturn the government's majority.

Mali extremists target mosque
Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists in Timbuktu broke down the door to a 15th-century mosque yesterday that locals believed had to stay shut until the end of the world, defying international calls to halt destruction of holy sites in the Unesco- listed city.



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