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International Glance
Jorge Rafael Videla, Argentina’s former dictator who led the country’s military junta from 1976 to 1981, has died. He was 87.
Videla died today in a Buenos Aires prison from natural causes, the government reported on the presidential website.
Videla was serving life imprisonment for human rights violations, including kidnap, torture and murder, during what the dictatorship called “the Dirty War” against opponents.
Nabka Day, or day of catastrophe, comes the day after the anniversary of the 1948 creation of the state of Israel and signifies the displacement of Palestinians. It was also marked with rallies and demonstrations in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post reported.
The Vatican bank, long a source of secret and scandal for the Holy See, plans to publish its annual report online as part of its efforts to be more financially transparent.
An American diplomat was briefly detained by the Russian State Security Service and then ordered to leave the country after being accused of trying to recruit a Russian officer to work as a U.S. agent, Russian officials said Tuesday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry posted a statement on its Web site saying it had declared Ryan C. Fogle, who is listed as the third secretary in the political section at the U.S. Embassy, persona non grata. Fogle must leave the country quickly, the Foreign Ministry said.
The world's two biggest fashion retailers Inditex and H&M have backed an accord aimed at preventing a repeat of last month's collapse of a Bangladesh factory building that killed more than 1,100 people.
The agreement on fire and building safety, which is being driven by the International Labour Organisation, trade unions and other lobby groups, has been under negotiation since the factory collapsed on April 24.
Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended Monday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry. The death toll: 1,127.
The collapse of the Rana Plaza building focused worldwide attention on the hazardous conditions in Bangladesh's low-cost garment industry and strengthened pressure for reforms.
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