Where’s ‘Waldo’? The Internet and the Mysterious Case of the Missing Vice President of China
Vice President Xi Jingping, the man presumed to be China’s next president, is missing. He has not been seen since the first of September when he addressed the Central Party School in Beijing. Planned meetings with Hillary Clinton and the prime ministers of Singapore and Denmark have been canceled. The absence has aroused such interest [...]
Syria seems to have reached point of no return after more than 100 killed in two days
The banner reads: No Baath, no Assad, we want a liberated country’ Security forces and gunmen loyal to Assad have killed at least 112 people over the last two days. They fired at protesters demanding political freedoms and an end to corruption on Friday and on mass funerals for victims a day later. Secret police [...]