YEONGJU, SOUTH KOREA -- When he looks out from the time-frozen world of Korea's oldest private Confucian academy, Park Seok-hong sees the rest of the country ''turning into a realm of beasts.'' He points to recent news as evidence: young people swearing at elderly passengers in the subway and children jumping to their deaths to escape bullying or...
DAMASCUS, Syria -- The secretary general of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and a Christian priest have been killed in violence that flared in parts of Syria on Wednesday, as Arab and Western nations continued their attempts to isolate Syria by trying to unseat it from two committees at a United Nations agency. The Red Crescent official, Dr....
PARIS -- At least 25 countries have joined to try to unseat Syria from two committees of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that deal with issues of human rights, Western diplomats and Unesco officials said Wednesday. The countries have put the issue on the agenda of the next meeting of the organization's Executive...