The New York Times
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 00:00
In all more than 430,000 private employment licenses have been issued since the reforms began in 2010, and 436,342 independent workers are currently operating.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 00:00
The Dominican Republic's top court on Thursday stripped citizenship from thousands of people born to migrants who came illegally.
Friday, September 27, 2013 - 00:00
The Cordillera prison, located on an army base, offers the officers jailed for killings, torture and other abuses during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's 1973-90 dictatorship far better conditions.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 10:43
Viewing the deadly siege at a shopping mall in Kenya as a direct threat to its security, the United States is deploying dozens of F.B.I. agents to investigate the wreckage, hoping to glean every piece of information possible to help prevent such a devastating attack from happening again, possibly even on American soil.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 07:57
Kenyan and American investigators began a sweeping inquiry on Wednesday into a shopping mall massacre here that killed scores of people, sifting through rubble, studying closed-circuit television footage and bringing in more resources to identify the attackers.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 07:55
The plot was hatched weeks or months ago on Somali soil, by the Shabab’s “external operations arm,” officials say. A team of English-speaking foreign fighters was carefully selected, along with a target: Nairobi’s gleaming Westgate mall.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 07:52
A bloody mall siege in Kenya, mass hostage-taking in Algeria, brazen attacks on government facilities in Niger, routine killings of civilians in Nigeria, an aggressive military push toward the capital in Mali: have Islamist militants found their chosen soft spots on the African continent?
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 00:00
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, under fire for being too quick to use lethal force, will train officers to defuse threats following the deaths of at least 19 people since 2010.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 00:00
A report on state television said 182,799 people have traveled abroad since January, when the reform eliminated the costly, much-loathed exit visa that for decades was required of all islanders.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 00:00
Venezuela's opposition has seized on the case to berate Maduro's government for allegedly turning a blind eye to senior figures involved in trafficking.