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MEXICO CITY, Oct. 1 — Mexico’s crackdown on drug cartels and stepped-up U.S. border enforcement have disrupted the flow of illegal drugs and caused cocaine supply shortages in 37 U.S. cities, including Washington, according to a report scheduled for release Tuesday by the White House drug policy office. Read more
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Field Notes is a new feature intended to give readers a sense of the story behind the story. These journals — a glimpse at the way our correspondents work — will occasionally accompany dispatches from abroad on the web and in print. Read more
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BAGHDAD, May 9 — A U.S. military spokesman said a man detained Thursday in northern Iraq is not wanted terrorist Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, the leader of the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq. Read more
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BEIRUT, May 9 — Gunmen from the Shiite Hezbollah movement seized control of several downtown Beirut neighborhoods Friday as the number of people killed in three days of fighting rose to at least 11. Read more
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s governing coalition said on Friday Hezbollah’s takeover of west Beirut was an “armed coup” aimed at bringing Syria back into the country and serving Iran’s interests. “The armed and bloody coup which is being implemented aims to return Syria to Lebanon and extend Iran’s reach [...]
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s governing coalition said on Friday Hezbollah’s takeover of west Beirut was an “armed coup” aimed at bringing Syria back into the country and serving Iran’s interests. Read more
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The World Food Programme says it will resume aid flights to Burma on Saturday, despite a row over the local authorities impounding deliveries. Read more
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Shari Villarosa, the U.S. charge d’affairs in Yangon, said she met with Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu on Friday to discuss American relief operations. Read more
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Democrats are moving on decisively from their 18-month-long debate about whether Barack Obama will be their presidential nominee. Instead, the party is grappling with questions of just when Hillary Clinton will admit defeat, and how. Read more
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In his first interview since it emerged that Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar beneath his home in August 1984 and forced to her to suffer a nightmare of incest, multiple rape and untreated births that lasted 24 years, the 73-year-old explained from his prison cell that, after the kidnapping, he [...]
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Iraqi authorities had announced Thursday that police commandos captured Abu Ayyub al-Masri in a raid in the northern city of Mosul. “Neither coalition forces nor Iraqi security forces detained or killed Abu Ayyub al-Masri. This guy had a similar name,” said Maj. Peggy Kageleiry, a U.S. military spokeswoman in northern Iraq. She said no additional [...]
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The World Food Programme has suspended all aid flights to cyclone hit Burma after the ruling military junta seized the first plane-load of supplies. Read more
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VIENNA, Austria – A magazine quotes the man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven children with her as saying he knew his actions were not right and that he must have been crazy. Read more
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts. Read more
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In the shadow of Iraq‘s unfolding drama, Afghanistan has become one of the world’s tragically underreported stories. Read more
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism Ahh, Hassan Nasrallah is always good for a sound bite. Unfortunately, the Hezbollah leader heads up a force that is well-armed (rearmed in defiance of Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict, as several sources have confirmed to me) and seems to be itching [...]
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The other day, when I was leaving Home Depot, I hesitated in front of the hot-dog stand where I ritually treat myself to a frank after completing a transaction that leaves me with a false sense of handiness. Then I thought, “No, I can do without,” and kept on walking. Read more
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s You wouldn’t have thought many people would need guidance on that, but this video promises to show you how, in the most elaborate way. Take a look… Tune in for the other four top web videos at 7.30pm tonight. For the stories moving up the web – including why Gordon Ramsay is shocked by [...]
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Josef Fritzl planned to build his secret dungeon six years before he actually imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth. Austrian police also say there were eight locked doors separating the cellar prison from the rest of the house. Sky’s Greg Milam reports. Read more
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Lucy-Jo Hudson has revealed that she was held hostage by a machete-wielding gang in South Africa. The 25-year-old, who played Katy Harris in Coronation Street, told the Daily Record that she witnessed eight armed men burst into a music show in Johannesburg and ask for money. She said: “Halfway through the performance I saw guards [...]