The New York Times
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:27
The country has now delivered a bit more than 57 percent of its most dangerous, so-called priority one, chemicals, and 82 percent of less toxic, priority two chemicals, said Michael Luhan, a spokesman for the organization.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:22
Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a powerful jihadist group once affiliated with Al Qaeda, kidnapped five people, including an oil executive, who were traveling on the road in Salahuddin Province that links the north to the capital.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 06:32
The extraordinary move came after a public outcry over the attacks on the army, and suggested the beginnings of a showdown between the Israeli authorities and violent Jewish settlers as tensions have grown in the area.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 06:28
Syrian state television and antigovernment activists reported Saturday that poison gas had been used in a rebel-held village in the central province of Hama, with each side blaming its enemies for an attack they both said sickened more than 100 people.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 06:24
Jordanian analysts and Islamists estimate that 800 to 1,200 Jordanians have gone to fight in Syria, more than double the number who fought in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 00:00
The World Cup projects are just a part of a bigger national problem casting a pall over Brazil's grand ambitions: an array of lavish projects conceived when economic growth was surging that now stand abandoned, stalled or wildly over budget.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 00:00
The migrants are no longer primarily Mexican laborers. Instead they are Central Americans, including many families with small children and youngsters without their parents.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 00:00
It was not clear that the participants viewed the encounter as much more than a chance to score propaganda points on television.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 08:06
The United Nations peacekeeping operation in South Sudan was severely criticized on Wednesday by Doctors Without Borders, the emergency medical charity, over what it called a shameful indifference to the squalid living conditions of 21,000 displaced people forced to shelter in a flooded portion of a peacekeeping base in the capital, Juba.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 07:27
While Mr. Kerry said both sides bore responsibility for “unhelpful” actions, the precipitating event, he said, was Israel’s announcement of 700 new housing units for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem.