The New York Times
Monday, April 28, 2014 - 06:31
The growing concerns in the region coincided with increasing evidence of a pattern of violent behavior by the security forces here
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 12:42
JERUSALEM — The Israeli government decided on Thursday to suspend American-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians because of the agreement the Palestinians announced on Wednesday between two rival factions, one of which refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist.
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 12:34
It is past time for Algeria to move toward a more open society and a more diverse economy.
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 06:41
His trial in United States District Court recalled those dark days in Ciudad Juárez, when there seemed to be no end to the killings and no explanation for them.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 10:57
JERUSALEM — The faltering Middle East peace process was thrown into further jeopardy on Wednesday, with Israel and the United States harshly condemning a new deal announced by feuding Palestinian factions, including the militant group Hamas, to repair their seven-year rift.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 10:43
GENEVA — Two months after the United Nations Security Council ordered Syria’s warring parties to allow access for humanitarian aid to civilians, the heads of five United Nations agencies warned on Wednesday that diplomacy had failed and that the desperate plight of civilians in many parts of the country was getting worse.
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 08:31
Last year’s plan called for spending $38 million, but raised only $10 million. The 2014 plan is for about $40 million. It has raised about $6 million
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 05:02
In theory, Ms. Maldonado would have served until new elections could be held, but she hardly had time to drink a cup of coffee in the mayor’s office before the court said Mr. Petro could return to it.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 10:20
Militants wearing military uniforms attacked a balloting center in a remote northern area and killed 10 guards, a senior police official said on Tuesday. The militants showed up at the polling center late Monday in Daqouq, a village outside the northern city of Kirkuk, saying they had come to carry out a search, the police said. Instead they shot and killed the guards. The attack was part of an effort by militants to derail the April 30 parliamentary elections in Sunni-dominated areas.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 09:49
Nearly 90 percent of the chemicals in Syria’s arsenal have now been exported and only a few shipments remain, international monitors reported Tuesday, but the progress was overshadowed by growing concerns that the Syrian military may be dropping bombs filled with chlorine, a common industrial compound not on the list of prohibited poisons.