The Washington Post
Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 00:00
Argentines are fed up with a rise in crime, but many people are criticizing the vigilante attacks.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 00:00
The country’s truth commission is increasingly generating interest as former officials defend their actions nearly three decades after the dictatorship ended.
Monday, March 31, 2014 - 13:02
With the parties unable to agree on the terms of a promised Israeli prisoner release, the negotiations risk collapse in the coming weeks.
Monday, March 31, 2014 - 08:15
Nigeria’s Islamic extremists intensified their propaganda war against the Nigerian military by releasing a video showing their fighters shooting confidently in the army’s main barracks in northeastern Nigeria and meeting little resistance.
Monday, March 31, 2014 - 08:12
The U.N. Security Council lavished rare praise Wednesday on Sierra Leone, a country once known for “blood diamonds” and rebels chopping limbs off innocent civilians, which now contributes soldiers to U.N. peacekeeping missions and aspires to be a middle-income country by 2030.
Monday, March 31, 2014 - 00:00
More than 1,400 police officers and Brazilian Marines rolled into a massive complex of slums near Rio de Janeiro's international airport before dawn Sunday.
Friday, March 28, 2014 - 09:22
But while experts predicted that Egypt’s opposition would disintegrate into extremes under the pressure of new military rule, there remain some notable exceptions.
Friday, March 28, 2014 - 09:13
Syrian opposition forces would be trained in camps in Jordan, northern Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The number of Syrian opposition fighters who would receive training would roughly double, to about 600 per month.
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 08:36
The world’s chemical weapons watchdog says more than 49 percent of the raw materials for Syria’s poison gas and nerve agent program scheduled for destruction have been shipped overseas, with the rest expected to leave by the end of April.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 08:32
Three eastern Libya militia members who were aboard the vessel will be detained for 14 days to be interrogated by prosecutors over their role in the saga.