KABUL - Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said allied forces are in the "final stages" of a large operation to clear insurgent fighters from key regions just west of Kandahar, the country's second-largest city and principal focus of the coalition's military ...
22/10/2010 05:33 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Haiti's government and its aid partners fought Friday to contain a cholera epidemic that has killed at least 140 people in the nation's worst medical emergency since the Jan. 12 earthquake.
22/10/2010 08:21 PM
PARIS -- Under pressure from the government, the French Senate voted Friday to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, a victory for President Nicolas Sarkozy after days of street rage, acrimonious debate and strikes that dried up the supply of gasoline across the country.
22/10/2010 11:09 PM
A former American college football player facing the possibility of caning in Singapore was arrested last month on the basis of international criminal complaints for alleged financial crimes, a spokesperson for the government there has said.
22/10/2010 10:26 PM
The Obama administration will ask Congress to expand military aid to Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday, announcing a five-year, $2 billion package that would increase current financing for weapons purchases by about one-third.
22/10/2010 11:01 PM
KABUL - The former Miss Wisconsin didn't seem to notice the stares as the car bounced down the narrow dirt road that leads to Kabul's infamous Pol-e-charki prison.
22/10/2010 05:02 PM
During his first visit to Mexico, President Obama pledged to do more to keep U.S. guns out of the hands of murderous drug cartels. One promise: to seek approval of a long-stalled treaty against illegal weapons sales.
22/10/2010 12:47 AM
BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Thursday wrapped up a regional tour, apparently designed to secure support for a second term in office, with a visit to Turkey, a country with a growing financial stake in Iraq.
21/10/2010 07:00 PM
KABUL - U.S.-funded development firms are beginning to shut down massive reconstruction projects because the Afghan government has refused to rescind a ban on their use of private security guards, according to U.S. officials and aid workers here.
22/10/2010 02:43 AM
PARIS - Unions vowed that their striking workers would keep disrupting rail and road transportation. Teenagers marched through the streets and pledged to go on boycotting their schools. The government, trying to appear unfazed, urged Parliament to ignore the chaos and speed up the vote on a bitt...
22/10/2010 01:13 AM
ISLAMABAD - On a recent morning, readers of the News, Pakistan's largest English-language newspaper, awoke to an unusual front-page advertisement: Printed atop a photo of President Asif Ali Zardari was the allegory of a Muslim caliph who willingly submitted to the court after being accused of wr...
21/10/2010 12:33 PM
