The Washington Post
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 00:00
The 50-year-old former union activist and bus driver, who succeeded Hugo Chavez after the mercurial leader died of cancer in March, secured just enough votes for the measure to pass after a dissident lawmaker was recently stripped of her seat.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 00:00
Authorities in the northern Mexico border state of Sonora have found eight bodies in two clandestine burial pits
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 00:00
Riots, homicides, prison breaks and other incidents have increased from 52 for all of 2011 to 119 through mid-October of this year.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 12:09
North Africa analyst Geoff Porter said the run-up to any Algerian presidential election is always tense as factions jockey for power.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 12:08
Mabrouk is one of the most senior security officers to be targeted and killed in Cairo during the violence that has gripped Egypt since the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July.
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 12:50
Rebels are claiming responsibility for the kidnapping and release for ransom of two American sailors off the coast of the oil-rich Niger Delta.
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 12:23
Sudan’s army says it has repulsed an attack by Darfur rebels on a strategic town near the border with South Sudan and killed the group’s deputy leader.
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 07:33
The agency in charge of destroying Syria’s chemical weapons says it is on track to eliminate the entire stockpile next year, but for one hitch: It hasn’t yet found a place to do the actual destruction.
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 07:25
Critics say Turkey has only itself to blame for a state of affairs that Turkish authorities appear, at least indirectly, to have encouraged.
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 00:00
Investigators have dug up 18 bodies in western Mexico after questioning nearly two dozen police officers who confessed to working with a drug cartel and led agents to a series of mass graves