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Iran was high on the agenda of Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa , who made his first visit to Washington as head of government this week and is hoping to help mediate efforts to bring Tehran on board with a package of proposals regarding its nuclear capability. Read more
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MOSCOW, Feb. 12 — A long-range Russian bomber buzzed the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Pacific Ocean last weekend, while a second bomber circled about 50 miles away, U.S. officials said. The Nimitz scrambled fighter jets to intercept the Russian warplanes. Read more
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 12 — Security forces have launched a wide-ranging search for the Pakistani ambassador to Afghanistan, Pakistani government officials said Tuesday, a day after the envoy disappeared in a tribal area that has recently been the scene of intense Taliban activity. Read more
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NEZAHUALCOYOTL, Mexico This Story Mexican Police Hit the Books With the Help of Radio Codes Classic Books Recast In the luminous opening scene of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez’s classic novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Aureliano BuendÃa confronts a memory. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Col. Aureliano BuendÃa was to remember that [...]
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SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela — In recent weeks, President Hugo Chávez has worked with fevered intensity to secure the release of Colombian hostages from rebel groups. He has appointed his interior minister to negotiate with guerrilla commanders and has flown the families of Colombian hostages to Venezuela‘s capital for meetings at the presidential palace. Read more
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 2 — Teams of investigators and archaeological specialists searched the site of a former military base in western Mexico on Saturday for remains of victims of Mexico’s “dirty war.” Read more
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 8 — President Thabo Mbeki apologized Friday for his government’s failure to prevent crippling power outages across South Africa and warned that restoring a reliable supply of electricity would require new projects and major cuts in usage. Read more
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Sitting in a secure vault deep inside the Pentagon, Marc Garlasco cheered when the laser-guided bombs he had helped target slammed to Earth, striking Iraqi soil. As a body flew like a rag doll across the video screen, framed in a bright flash and a cloud of dust, Garlasco and his fellow intelligence analysts thought [...]
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BEIRUT, Feb. 13 — Imad Mughniyeh, a senior but shadowy Hezbollah commander accused by the United States and Israel of masterminding suicide bombings, hijackings and hostage-takings that spanned 25 years, was killed by a car bomb in the Syrian capital of Damascus, the Shiite Muslim group and other officials said Wednesday. Read more
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By Laila Bassam and Nadim Ladki BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah leader Imad Moughniyah, on the United States’ most wanted list for attacks on Israeli and Western targets, was killed by a bomb in Damascus, the Lebanese group said on Wednesday. Hezbollah swiftly accused Israel of assassinating Moughniyah, who [...]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrat Barack Obama’s three decisive wins over rival Hillary Clinton propelled him on Wednesday into the next round of presidential contests on a wave of momentum and sent her scrambling to find an answer. Read more
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Mr Spielberg, who had been brought in as artistic adviser for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games, said the cause of Darfur was more important than his role. Read more
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In the case against Boeing, which hinges on the provision of research and development assistance from NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, the WTO panel is likely to meet again for at least one round of questions before proceeding to the report-writing stage later this year. Read more
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“We reached an agreement with kidnappers to hand over the Iraqi interpreter to the police command in Basra and the British journalist will be handed over to al-Sadr’s office in Basra this afternoon,” al-Edhari told The Associated Press. He did not give a specific time. Read more
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Hillary Clinton was struggling to shore up support among supporters yesterday as Barack Obama, her rival, continued to gather momentum in the race for the White House. Read more
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Russia has threatened to target the Ukraine with nuclear warheads if the former Soviet republic joins Nato and accepts the deployment of United States anti-missile defences on its territory. Read more
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PARIS (Feb. 12) – France’s new first lady said in an interview published Tuesday that despite her whirlwind romance with President Nicolas Sarkozy, she expects the marriage to last a lifetime. Read more
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Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he had “some concerns” about the fairness of the U.S. military courts that will try the Guantanamo Bay inmates. Read more
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Barack Obama won the Virginia primary to choose a Democratic presidential candidate on Tuesday, handing rival Hillary Clinton a major defeat in their closely fought race to represent the party in the November election, US media projected. Read more
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last Shah of Iran, overthrown in the 1979 Iranian revolution. He is pictured here with his wife, Farah Pahlavi, former Empress of Iran Read more