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The London Review of Books has a nice piece by Lynn Visson, a former UN translator, on the secrets of her trade: The most important language in most international organisations has no name: it is the institution’s own bureaucratese, its linguistic Esperanto. We...
China has been taking flak for its relatively small contribution to the international aid effort in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan. It's pledged about $1.7m so far compared to much larger amounts from the US, Japan and European countries. One possible...
The BBC and other outlets are tonight carrying the story that some 23,000 Ethiopians have "surrendered" to police in Riyadh following a clampdown on illegal migrants last week that led to rioting and at least five deaths (accounts vary of the nationalities of those...