The Washington Post
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 09:40
CAIRO — New anti-terrorism legislation proposed by Egypt’s cabinet is drawing searing criticism from rights groups and lawyers that it would grant authorities far-reaching powers to quash dissent amid an already alarming slide toward authoritarianism.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:01
It was the latest violence to hit one of Rio’s so-called “pacified” slums — impoverished areas that for decades were controlled by drug gangs.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 06:59
Gunmen in South Sudan who targeted civilians, including children and the elderly, left “piles and piles” of bodies, many of them in a mosque and a hospital, the United Nations’s top humanitarian official in the country said Tuesday.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 06:35
TEHRAN, Iran — Several Iranian lawmakers on Tuesday demanded a probe into alleged beatings of political prisoners held at Tehran’s Evin prison, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 08:55
Scores of female students kidnapped by Islamic militants from a northeastern Nigerian school are free, Nigeria’s military reported Wednesday.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 07:30
The low turnout in January suggests a deepening apathy among Egypt’s youths, just three years after young people spearheaded the pro-democracy revolt against Mubarak.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 07:03
The U.N. Special Representative in Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, described the college assault as a “vicious and cowardly attack on innocent civilians.”
Friday, April 18, 2014 - 08:42
Able-bodied men from the Nigerian town of Chibok have taken to the dangerous Sambisa Forest to search for more than 100 abducted girls and young women whom the military claimed to have freed from their Islamic extremist kidnappers, an education official said Thursday.
Thursday, April 17, 2014 - 08:32
The age of these guns is strong evidence that they were legal American guns that were stolen and then sold into the black market–and not guns which were bought at a gun store.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 08:10
As the Syrian army steps up its bombardment on the last rebel-held areas of Homs, those holed up inside say they fear the city, once dubbed the capital of the revolution, is close to slipping completely from their grip.