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Hannah Strange, the Times Online news reporter, is spending a week in Sierra Leone, a country still racked by the aftermath of a brutal civil war in which tens of thousands were killed and a third of its total population displaced. Here is the third of her daily diary entries: Read more
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WASHINGTON — When Bolivia’s Evo Morales was elected the Western Hemisphere’s first indigenous president of a country with an indigenous majority, Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez wasted no time proclaiming himself an ally. Read more
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Ideology matters again. The big development of recent years is the rise not only of great powers but also of the great-power autocracies of Russia and China. True realism about the international scene begins with understanding how this unanticipated shift will shape our world. Read more
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LONDON, May 2 — Early returns indicated Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Labor Party was headed for significant losses in local elections that mark Brown’s first major test with voters since taking office last summer. Read more
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HONG KONG, May 2 — Despite a drizzle, tens of thousands of Hong Kong citizens and visitors donned celebratory red and turned out with Chinese flags Friday, filling stadiums and jamming sidewalks along the Olympic torch relay route to cheer China and drown out demonstrators. Read more
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The Senate has unanimously declared John McCain a natural-born citizen, eligible to be president of the United States. Read more
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LIMA, Peru, Dec. 8 — The members of Bolivia’s constitutional assembly reconvened Saturday evening to try to pass a draft of a controversial new charter that has thrown the country into crisis in recent weeks. Read more
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BOGOTA, Colombia, April 25 — The Colombian attorney general’s office confirmed Friday that it had uncovered a plot to assassinate a key witness whose testimony has linked several Colombian congressmen, including President Álvaro Uribe‘s cousin, to death squads. Read more
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KILONGO, Congo Not too long ago, the 30-mile journey from this village to the nearest city was virtually impossible by car. It took at least 14 hours walking from dawn to dark, an odyssey in flip-flops through woods, over fallen trees, along a bumpy red-dirt road with potholes the size of ponds. Read more
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With energy prices soaring and the federal deficit approaching $400 billion, senators from both parties moved yesterday to force Iraq to shoulder more financial responsibility for its reconstruction and self-defense. Read more
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BAGHDAD, May 1 — Two suicide bombers attacked a wedding convoy as it passed through a busy market area in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 65, police said. Read more
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HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change said on Friday it would reject results of a presidential election that would force a run-off against veteran ruler Robert Mugabe. Read more
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SANAA (Reuters) – An explosion shook a mosque in Yemen’s volatile northern city of Saada on Friday and many casualties were feared, a security source said. The source said the blast happened as worshippers were leaving the mosque. It was not immediately clear how many people were hurt. (Reporting [...]
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The Quartet of major powers mediating in the Middle East peace process has called on Arab states to honour aid pledges to the Palestinians. Read more
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Capt. Jamie Graybeal, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, confirmed there was a U.S. airstrike early Thursday in the vicinity of the central Somali town of Dusamareeb. Another U.S. military spokesman, Bob Prucha, said the attack was against a “known al-Qaida target and militia leader in Somalia.” Both declined to provide further details. Read more
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A leading Democratic super-delegate switched his support from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama yesterday, saying that their long nomination battle had made one White House hopeful particularly competitive: the Republican John McCain. Read more
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The Austrian rapist who imprisoned his daughter in his cellar for 24 years and fathered her seven children was a despot in the “normal” home he kept upstairs. Read more
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (May 1) – The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins – and cannons to fend off pirates. Read more
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The 73-year-old finally grew tired of the effort and subterfuge involved in providing food and clothing for his captives. Read more
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WASHINGTON – The biggest United States outbreak of measles since 2001 is unfolding in 10 states, with at least 64 people ranging from infants to the elderly becoming ill – most of them unvaccinated, US health officials said on yesterday. Read more