The New York Times
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 12:09
The battered old car, cutlasses and nail-studded clubs poking out of its windows, careens down the road and squeals to a stop. Its young occupants pile out, shouting with glee, and set up a roadblock.
"Get down!" ''Open the trunk!" ''What's in that parcel?" They yell as a line of stopped cars and minivan taxis forms that will become nearly two kilometers (a mile) long.
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 11:39
Nigerian soldiers have killed the second-in-command of the Islamist sect Boko Haram, an insurgency that has caused the deaths of thousands in the last three years, the Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.
It said Momodu Bama, who had a $155,000 bounty on his head, was killed along with 17 other members of the sect during clashes with the military on Aug. 4 in Bama, a town in the northeastern state of Borno.
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 11:31
The Mali coup leader who overthrew the country's democratically elected president more than a year ago received a big promotion Wednesday to army general, an announcement made just days after the country chose a new president.
News of Amadou Sanogo's new job title drew criticism from human rights activists who said he should instead face investigation into abuses committed by his loyalists after the March 2012 coup.
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 11:31
The Mali coup leader who overthrew the country's democratically elected president more than a year ago received a big promotion Wednesday to army general, an announcement made just days after the country chose a new president.
News of Amadou Sanogo's new job title drew criticism from human rights activists who said he should instead face investigation into abuses committed by his loyalists after the March 2012 coup.
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 00:00
The lawmaker displayed photos in the National Assembly on Tuesday showing a top aide to opposition leader Henrique Capriles dressed, along with other men, in women's clothing, apparently at a party.
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 00:00
Police officers investigating the death of a teenager clashed with residents of a Rio de Janeiro slum, police said Wednesday as Brazilians staged a series of protests.
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 00:00
While the group denied any links to the Knights Templar cartel, its news conference in Mexico City coincided with a rare public relations push by the gang.
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 00:00
While the group denied any links to the Knights Templar cartel, its news conference in Mexico City coincided with a rare public relations push by the gang.
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 00:00
Castro, perhaps in an effort to explain his country's close ties with North Korea, said on Wednesday that Cuba turned to its friends for military support in the 1980s after Soviet leader Yuri Andropov made clear his country would not intervene if Cuba wer
Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 00:00
Maduro is on the receiving end of a new wave of criticism for letting graft close to home go unpunished.