On July 13, 1989, a frantic getaway is taking place out front of an apartment house at 5 Linke Bahngasse in Vienna. In an article for the Austrian weekly Profil, the journalists Sibylle Hamann und Martin Staudinger reconstruct the scene: A secret agent has been shot and he is dragged by two other men between two parked cars. He is bleeding from multiple wounds. A man on a motorcycle pulls up beside them. All four are members of an Iranian terror commando unit that has left behind a bloodbath in a two-room apartment on the fourth floor of the building [...]
TOKYO — “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,” according to Joseph Stalin. Despite the dubious source of the quote, its substance provides a telling insight into the way certain deaths are covered in the media. This has been particularly true for the death of Japanese photojournalist Kenji Nagai, who was shot dead last week in Myanmar. The case has sparked outrage around the world and, unsurprisingly, has been extensively covered by the media in Japan. At first there was uncertainty on how to treat the most striking element of the story — the fact [...]
IT ALL STARTED WITH MALTA — It was clear from U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s personal involvement with last Monday’s summit on climate change sponsored by the world body that he wants to make the issue a priority of his term of office. A senior U.N. adviser said shaping the proposed post-Kyoto agreement (the Kyoto Protocol emission reduction targets will expire in 2012) will continue to be one of Ban Ki-moon’s main targets. The Korean doesn’t have his predecessor Kofi Annan’s public persona, but inside the organization he is widely judged to have had an effective first year in the [...]
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