The Washington Post
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 07:22
Car bombs hit several mostly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad and a town south of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 07:21
Indeed, militias come to be tied to constituencies, mirroring political parties. It is well recognized that militias have strong ties with, and represent, citizens in different geographic areas.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 00:00
The announcement followed a closed-door meeting Tuesday between Maduro and representatives of the opposition.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 09:28
Inside two adjacent houses in an upscale area of Rwanda’s capital, the unfinished business of the country’s 1994 genocide unfolds. Members of the Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit work from here to bring to trial dozens of key perpetrators who fled abroad after the killings, some of them to the United States — and 20 years later, there’s still no end in sight.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 08:01
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said Friday she’s going to Africa not just to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide but to spotlight ethnic killings in Central African Republic and the potential for violence in Burundi.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 00:00
Tamaulipas is home to both the Gulf cartel and the Zetas drug gang. The confrontations followed joint operations by army and police that netted dozens of suspected drug cartel gunmen.
Monday, April 7, 2014 - 00:00
Officials say the spread is the result of a shrewd marketing strategy developed by Mexican traffickers. They have targeted areas with the worst prescription pill abuse, sending heroin pushers to "set up right outside the methadone clinics"
Monday, April 7, 2014 - 00:00
USAID pronounced itself "proud" of trying to help Cubans "speak freely among themselves," and it should be - even if someone else probably should have gotten the assignment.
Monday, April 7, 2014 - 00:00
The embargo is hindering the growth of a cinema that is increasingly independent of the state and often offers a raw reflection of Cuban life or pokes fun at the government.
Friday, April 4, 2014 - 00:00
Just because Washington says ZunZuneo is above board doesn't mean it has an effective grasp on technology's role in social movements, Internet scholars say.