The New York Times
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:08
Three blasts struck a gathering of mourners at a funeral in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 42, security officials and medical workers said.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:04
Al-Thawra also quoted the head of a presidential committee tasked with ending the fighting as saying Houthi fighters had seized two government soldiers monitoring the truce on Saturday on charges of delivering guns and ammunition to the Salafis.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 00:00
Xiomara Castro, the left-wing presidential candidate in last week's elections, has rejected the official results and called on her supporters to march in the streets.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 10:26
A south Yemeni separatist leader on Wednesday walked out of national reconciliation talks meant chart a new constitution for U.S.-allied Yemen, setting back efforts to keep the fragile country together.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 08:58
Severe government abuse, not harsh living conditions, is driving thousands of Eritreans to flee their country every month and risk their lives trying, often by precarious means, to reach other countries, a United Nations investigator said Monday.
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 00:00
The decision threatens to disrupt a recent surge in travel between the United States and Cuba on the eve of the holiday season
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 00:00
Investigators claim that a group of tax inspectors allowed construction companies to evade more than $200 million in taxes in exchange for bribes
Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 00:00
São Paulo, the nation’s largest city, is reeling from revelations of a scheme in which investigators claim that a group of tax inspectors allowed construction companies to evade more than $200 million in taxes in exchange for bribes.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 09:48
Iraq is hunting militants, still unidentified, who led a deadly attack on an Iranian dissident camp near Baghdad and dismisses suggestions its own security forces were behind the violence, a senior government official said.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 09:47
Algerian opposition parties, including both secular and Islamist groups, have signed a statement calling for April's presidential elections to be supervised by an independent commission.