The New York Times
Monday, January 13, 2014 - 07:06
On Sunday, Mr. Maliki seemed to back away from earlier promises to mount an all-out military assault on Falluja, saying in an interview with the Reuters news agency that he wanted to “end the presence of those militants without any bloodshed.”
Monday, January 13, 2014 - 06:57
But most Israelis mourned Mr. Sharon as a man whose imprint on their nation had been indelible, and one of the last of its founding generation of fighters and farmers.
Monday, January 13, 2014 - 06:45
The Pentagon has sent a small team of uniformed military advisers to Somalia, the first American troops assigned there since 1993, when 18 Americans were killed in the failed “Black Hawk Down” mission.
Monday, January 13, 2014 - 00:00
The World Bank ombudsman issued a stinging critique Friday of the bank’s private-sector arm over a loan to a Honduran palm-oil company engaged in a violent conflict with farm workers over land tenure
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 13:18
Mr. Araghchi was quoted as saying that “we found solutions for all the points of disagreements, but the implementation of the Geneva agreement depends on the final ratification of the capitals.”
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 12:33
The director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, said Thursday that tracking Americans who have returned from Syria had become one of the bureau’s highest counterterrorism priorities.
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 07:32
As fighting continued to rage across South Sudan on Thursday, a new estimate raised the death toll in the conflict significantly and a senior American official questioned the government’s insistence that a coup attempt was responsible for setting off the violence and instability there.
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 00:00
The last time Fidel Castro was seen publicly was in April 2013, when he attended the opening of a Havana school
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 00:00
“Pinochet was tormented by an intense inferiority complex, which he tried to deal with by collecting books"
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 07:27
Mr. Menendez received a three-page letter last week from Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq responding to his concerns and received an urgent call from the State Department on Tuesday promising a further response.