Nation-States and National Borders

Fire Engulfs Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" Retreat In Bavarian Alps, Suspect Detained Fire tore through the Kehlsteinhaus, the Alpine guesthouse known as Hitler's "Eagle's Nest," on Friday night, and German police said they had detained a suspect near the scene, Reuters reported. Emergency dispatchers in Traunstein were alerted at about 9:15 p.m., Berliner Zeitung reported, and when the first crews reached the site at 9:52 p.m. the entire building was already burning. A smoke detector inside had set off the alarm at about 9:50 p.m., t-online said. Around 200 firefighters, mountain rescuers, Red...

Chinese County Orders Lawyers To Get Government Approval Before Defending Criminal Charges Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, A county justice bureau in southwestern China has ordered local law firms to report cases related to the government's "anti-organized crime" campaign and obtain official approval before lawyers can argue that a defendant's alleged offense should be classified differently. The No. 2 Intermediate People's Court in the Beijing suburb of Fangzhuang on Aug. 15, 2006. Goh Chai Hin/AFP via Getty ImagesThe notice, issued directly to law firms by the Justice Bureau of...

China Economic Growth 'Downside Risk' Looms; Goldman Warns After July Macro-Miss-Fest China’s July activity data weakened from June, missing market expectations across the board, and signaling a soft start to Q3 amid continued divergence between resilient exports and subdued domestic demand. Originally slated for publication late last night (US time), the data release was delayed for five hours after the statistics agency revised its schedule in a break with recent practice. Industrial production (IP) growth slowed to 4.5% yoy in July from 5.3% yoy in June, reflecting slower export growth and...