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KIEV, Ukraine, April 1 — President Bush championed expansion of NATO further into the former Soviet Union on Tuesday and declared that Russia “will not have a veto” over the alliance’s decision this week about whether to put Ukraine and Georgia on a path to membership.
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A former Defense Department official accused of passing classified information to a Taiwanese contact pleaded guilty yesterday to an espionage charge but said he was unaware that the material would reach the Chinese government.
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EL PASO, March 31 — The government of President Raúl Castro has lifted a ban on Cubans staying in hotels on the island, tourism industry employees said Monday, in an apparent end to a policy that exiled bloggers and other critics had dubbed “tourism apartheid.”
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 18 — Colombian guerrillas said Tuesday that they would hand over three hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, including an aide to French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt.
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KIEV, Ukraine, March 31 — The hundreds of thousands of demonstrators who camped out on Independence Square here three years ago toppled a pro-Russian government in favor of a Western-oriented coalition that pledged to move this former Soviet republic closer to the rest of Europe.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, April 1 — The ruling party’s grip on Zimbabwe appeared to be loosening Tuesday as official results showed a modest but widening lead for the opposition from last weekend’s election.
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BAGHDAD, March 28 — U.S. forces in armored vehicles battled Mahdi Army fighters Thursday in the vast Shiite stronghold of Sadr City, and military officials said Friday that U.S. aircraft bombed militant positions in the southern city of Basra, as the American role in a campaign against party-backed militias appeared to expand.
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BAGHDAD, March 31 — Abdul Qader, his chest and leg wrapped in white bandages, began to cry — not out of pain, but loss. He remembered seeing the American Humvees, then a hail of bullets. He remembered seeing his close friend and neighbor, Abbas Ramadan, shot as he clutched his 2-year-old granddaughter, blood oozing from […]
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HARARE (Reuters) - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will beat President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe’s crucial election, but be forced into a runoff vote in three weeks, according to a ruling party projection.
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KIEV (Reuters) - President George W. Bush vowed on Tuesday to press for Ukraine and Georgia to be allowed to start the process of joining NATO despite resistance from Russia and skepticism from the alliance’s European members.
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Almost two-thirds of Zimbabwe’s parliamentary results have been declared, with the ruling party and opposition very close.
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“To our knowledge, the next plan of the Tibetan independence forces is to organize suicide squads to launch violent attacks,” Public Security Bureau spokesman Wu Heping said Tuesday.
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We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their families.
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The coroner at the inquest into the death of Princess Diana has formally ruled out any possibility that she was murdered.
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LONDON (March 31) - Some of England’s most sacred soil was disturbed
Monday for the first time in more than four decades as
archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge:
When and why was the prehistoric monument built?
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But only a handful of parliamentary results have been announced – with the outcome of the presidential poll still to be revealed.
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MANHEIM, Pennsylvania - Democrat Barack Obama took aim yesterday at potential White House opponent John McCain on Iraq, saying the Republican senator could not offer a clear definition of success in the conflict and might leave ,US combat troops there for decades.
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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Sarko Wins French Election!French Election CentralAnalysis of Sarkozy’s Acceptance Speech
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
Very, very interesting developments out of Turkey today: In the wake of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan lead a lifting of the ban on headscarves in universities — and a charge by his party, the AKP, to ban booze in restaurants — the 11-member Constitutional Court has agreed to […]