The Washington Post
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 08:50
The head of the United Nations refugee agency warned Tuesday that Syria could be on the “verge of the abyss” as aid workers brace for a likely increase in the nearly 2 million refugees who have already fled the country’s civil war.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 08:37
IN THE past 18 months, Mali, an arid, landlocked nation of 16 million people in the heart of West Africa, has seen more than its fair share of troubles and traumas.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013 - 00:00
The government's Legal Framework for Peace, a constitutional reform creating a mechanism for delivering justice as the country transitions from war, has become a political thicket for the president and his peace negotiators.
Monday, August 26, 2013 - 07:34
U.N. forces joined Congolese soldiers on the front line Saturday where they fought rebels in the country’s volatile east for hours, officials said, as border tensions escalated between Rwanda and Congo.
Monday, August 26, 2013 - 00:00
Drug policy analysts said the wide dissemination of the number is part of a pattern in the decades-long "war on drugs" of promoting questionable statistics in an attempt to quantify the drug problem in the United States and justify budgets.
Friday, August 23, 2013 - 06:56
The rebels invaded on stolen motorcycles at 5 a.m., shooting into the air to announce their arrival in the secluded village in Central African Republic. They went house to house, breaking down doors and separating the men from the women and children.
Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 08:03
Yemen’s government apologized Wednesday to southern secessionists over a war launched against them by the previous president, in hopes of bringing them back to talks about the future of this country on the Arabian peninsula.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - 10:46
Helicopters may soon become another kind of symbol, this time of decreasing U.S. support, as the Obama administration debates whether to stop next month’s scheduled delivery of new Apache AH-64D aircraft, according to a senior U.S. official.
Monday, August 19, 2013 - 00:00
If Rousseff's political fortunes worsen, "we go to Plan B," he said. "You know what that will be? Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, that he comes back as a candidate".
Friday, August 16, 2013 - 12:01
Violent clashes spread across Egypt on Wednesday after security forces stormed two sprawling protest camps in an early morning assault that killed scores of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.