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LINFEN, China — Mining has resumed in the frigid shafts, and long lines of 18-wheelers laden with coal once again clog the twisty mountain roads leading out of Linfen. This grime-covered city, where the packed snow long ago turned black and carbon-colored dust hangs in the air, has reclaimed its role as the capital of […]
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. 17 — A Nicaraguan court on Monday ordered the release of an American magazine editor who became an international cause celebre after being convicted in the grisly murder of his ex-girlfriend.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 17 — President Hugo Chavez sent a soothing message to American motorists on Sunday, saying Venezuela is not preparing to cut off oil shipments to the United States.
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The stock market soared yesterday afternoon, capping a remarkably volatile day, as new efforts by key players in the U.S. financial system aim to raise enough cash to guard against some of the fallout of the credit crisis.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Feb. 17 — For a president in his last year in office, heading overseas is one sure-fire means of getting away from that annoying election campaign to pick his successor for a little while. Or is it?
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“Little man, I love you! Mommy misses you,” Spec. Amy Shaw spoke softly as she looked into the video camera in her Baghdad barracks, surrounded by photographs of tiny Connor James, the infant son she left behind in Wisconsin. “Mommy’ll be home soon.”
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SIALKOT, Pakistan, Feb. 17 — Many people in this gritty rural district of wheat fields and cinder-block factories believe one of the country’s two main opposition parties deserves to win Monday’s crucial voting for parliament. Yet they also believe the government will do everything it can to steal the election.
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By Fatos Bytyci
PRISTINA, Serbia (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Monday that the people of Kosovo were now independent, in his first comment on the territory’s weekend declaration of independence.
“We’ll watch to see how the events unfold today,” Bush said in a live interview aired on NBC television from Arusha, Tanzania during a […]
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Counting began on Monday after an election in Pakistan which was far less violent than feared, although it could result in a parliament set on driving U.S. ally President Pervez Musharraf from power.
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Sunday’s declaration said Kosovo would be built in accordance with the plan, which outlines several limits on independence including an international presence and provision for the protection of the Serb minority.
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Public antipathy over Musharraf’s support of the U.S.-led war on terror could count against his political allies, as could his recent declaration of emergency rule and purging of the judiciary to safeguard his controversial re-election as president in October.
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Four American police officers could be kicked off the force and jailed after an Irishman was blinded during a late night brawl, in a “cover-up” scandal which has rocked the New York Police Department.
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There was hardly a seat to be found in Pristina’s bars and restaurants this weekend. So much for the unconvincing pleas of detractors that an independent Kosovo would become Europe’s first Islamic state.
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The attack follows a year of record violence and predictions that the Afghan conflict could turn even deadlier this year.
Several hundred people, including Afghan militia leaders, had gathered in a barren dirt field to watch the event on the western edge of the southern city of Kandahar. Witnesses reported gunfire from bodyguards after the blast, […]
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Fears of bloodshed kept many Pakistanis away from the polls today with 80,000 troops watching over the crucial election overshadowed by political violence and fears of fraud.
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SYDNEY - Australia failed to send a helicopter to help East Timor prime minister Xanana Gusmao when he was attacked last week, says one of his closest advisers.
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The Sudanese government has repeatedly denied having any relationship with the Janjaweed, however, first-hand accounts suggest otherwise:
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
As I pored through Saturday evening photos of Kosovans already celebrating Sunday’s promised declaration of statehood, I offhandedly asked
a colleague what she would be doing to celebrate Kosovo Independence Day.
“Are you sure it won’t be Serbian Revenge Day?” she responded.
‘Nuff said.
The Balkans are back in the news with […]
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Elsewhere on the political video front, another McCain-based video spoof of “Yes We Can!”:
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