The New York Times
Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 06:33
Critics of the Ethiopian government scoffed at the notion, saying there was no space for open political discourse in the country.
Monday, July 27, 2015 - 06:31
Tunisia’s Parliament voted overwhelmingly late Friday to pass an antiterrorism law after a pair of devastating attacks against tourists, but critics fear that the new legislation may endanger the country’s hard-won freedoms.
Friday, July 24, 2015 - 06:06
The National Human Rights Commission of Mexico is questioning the government’s investigation into the disappearance of 43 college students who investigators say were killed and incinerated in September.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 06:55
A ship full of aid chartered by the World Food Program, the United Nations’ antihunger agency, berthed Tuesday in Yemen’s southern port of Aden, the agency reported.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 06:14
After months of unrest and a night of explosions and gunfire, Burundians began voting Tuesday morning in a presidential election whose results are not in doubt but whose consequences could prove deeply destabilizing.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 04:38
A spree of killings which has left at least 35 people dead in Manaus is raising suspicions that police officers may have organized a death squad to carry out a wave of execution-style killings in retaliation for the recent fatal shooting of a police officer, security officials said.
Monday, July 20, 2015 - 06:22
About 800 troops from Moldova, the United States, Romania, Poland and Georgia are taking part in joint military exercises in Moldova, a former Soviet republic that borders Ukraine.
Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 07:44
Targets of heavily-armed special troops are not guerrilla forces and their civilian sympathizers, but gang members, who have killed so many rivals and civilians alike that the country’s monthly death toll is rising to levels not seen since the end of the 12-year civil war in 1992.
Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 06:59
When President Obama called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday to discuss the nuclear deal with Iran, the American president offered the Israeli leader, who had just deemed the agreement a “historic mistake,” a consolation prize: a fattening of the already generous military aid package the United States gives Israel.
Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 06:42
The Tunisian government hosted a security meeting with officials from the Group of 7 industrialized nations on Wednesday to discuss ways that they can further help the country deal with the growing threat of terrorism, officials here said.