NEWS The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China’s military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map “military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.†David E. Sanger reports from Washington.
The White House insisted Monday that it would not be thrown off its cautious approach to Syria, despite Israeli military strikes near Damascus and new questions about the use of chemical weapons in the civil war there. Mark Landler and Eric Schmitt report from Washington.
Giulio Andreotti, a seven-time prime minister of Italy with a résumé of signal accomplishments and checkered failings that reads like a history of the republic, died on Monday. He was 94 and lived in Rome. John Tagliabue reports.
At a time when the United States has learned to target drone strikes with increasing accuracy and direct cyberweapons at specific nuclear centrifuges, its understanding of North Korea has gotten worse. David E. Sanger reports from Washington and Choe Sang-Hun from Seoul.
The trial of a surviving member of a neo-Nazi group accused of a string of anti-immigrant killings opened Monday in a Munich court, renewing discussion of racism in German society and in the country’s security services. Melissa Eddy reports from Munich.
Though it held on to power in Sunday’s election in Malaysia, the governing National Front coalition failed to win more than 50 percent of the popular vote for the first time in 44 years, and left Prime Minister Najib Razak’s position far from secure. Joe Cochrane reports from Kuala Lumpur.
Cuba is seeking to overturn Australia’s tough tobacco-labeling rules at the World Trade Organization, the trade body said Monday, the first time that Havana has used the forum to directly confront another nation over its commercial laws. David Jolly reports from Paris.
Foxconn, which is based in Taiwan but does most of its manufacturing in mainland China, wants to reduce its reliance on Apple. Its new strategy is a shift away from making products that other companies design, and toward developing products of its own, with an especially aggressive push into designing and manufacturing large flat-screen televisions. Lin Yang reports from Taipei.
After a lackluster 2012 and slow start this year, Hong Kong’s financiers are hoping to revive interest in initial public offerings. Neil Gough reports from Hong Kong.
FASHION “Punk: Chaos to Couture,†the Metropolitan Museum’s new exhibit, shows 1970s styles with the modern designs they influenced but lacks some context. Suzy Menkes reviews from New York.
ARTS Vatican officials say they have found what could be the first European images of American Indians in a fresco painted within two years of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the so-called New World. Elisabetta Povoledo reports from Rome.
SPORTS John Tomic, the father and coach of the young Australian star Bernard Tomic, is accused of hitting Thomas Drouet, his son’s hitting partner, outside a Madrid hotel last week. Christopher Clarey reports.
