Libyan Port City Is Filled With Migrants Desperate to Exit
By C. J. CHIVERS
Since February, Misurata has been besieged, stranding thousands between heavy fighting and a harbor that could serve as a departure point.
A small core of American groups played a bigger role in promoting democracy in Arab states than was previously known.
Since February, Misurata has been besieged, stranding thousands between heavy fighting and a harbor that could serve as a departure point.
Amid divisions over the intensity of the air campaign in Libya, some of the allies are calling for participation by more nations.
Even as changes such as amnesty for some prisoners were announced, human rights activists said organizers of the protest movement were being detained.
The call for Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s resignation ended an uneasy political truce forged after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.
TEPCO announced plans on Friday to distribute $600 million to 50,000 people evacuated because of the accident at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Even before the troubled Fukushima nuclear plant has been brought under control, differing estimates underscore the uncertainties on the eventual cleanup’s timetable.
The Tennessee Valley Authority is the first American reactor operator to announce safety changes that it is weighing since the nuclear crisis at a Japanese plant last month.
An analysis implies that modern language originated only once, in southern Africa, a surprising finding.
An Islamic group had claimed the kidnapping and said they’d execute the man unless their leader was released.
North Korea celebrated its biggest annual holiday on Friday — the 99th birthday of the late dictator Kim Il-sung — and hopes for rapprochement with the South remained dim.
The decision by a three-judge panel of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague was also an indirect verdict on the late president of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman.
China said its economy had grown 9.7 percent in the first quarter of this year, the strongest performance among the world’s biggest economies. But consumer prices rose 5.4 percent.
India’s Supreme Court granted bail to a prominent doctor who was appealing a sentence of life imprisonment after being convicted of sedition for aiding Maoist rebels in the country.
Belgium reacted with shock on Friday when a disgraced former bishop revealed that he had abused two nephews, and said that he did not consider himself a pedophile.
A suicide bomber blew himself up during prayers in a mosque in a police station on Friday, wounding dozens and killing himself.
The country hopes to collect millions of dollars in flyover fees if it regains authority over traffic in its airspace, which the United Nations has controlled since 1996.
Soccer is Switzerland’s most popular spectator sport, followed by ice hockey, but fans say that football may be third, though it was introduced less than 30 years ago.
The authorities on Thursday released surveillance images they said showed the attacker carrying the bomb that killed 12 people and injured nearly 200.
A third journalist was arrested for his role in an expanding case of phone-hacking by reporters at the British tabloid News of the World, police officials said.
Members of the U. N. panel that investigated Israel’s Gaza war two years ago rejected former chairman Richard Goldstone’s retraction of their finding that Israel had deliberately targeted civilians.
Kizza Besigye, a leading opposition figure, was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for a wound to the hand after being hit by what he said was a rubber bullet.
Amid a real estate boom, men are finding themselves lovelorn as women hold out for a mate with property.
Ai Weiwei, an artist detained by China, is being investigated for tax evasion, destroying evidence and distributing pornography, a Hong Kong newspaper says.
Map and photographs of places in Japan that were damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Videos, photographs and interactive features documenting the destruction in Japan after a powerful earthquake and tsunami devastated the country on March 11.
Libyan rebels need support from a unified coalition with a strategy for the long haul.
What will happen if China's overheated real estate market goes bust?
A reporter reflects on the experience of one American battalion and how success and failure go hand in hand.
Examining U.S. diplomatic cables as a window on relations with the rest of the world in an age of war and terrorism.
A recent High Court case brought by four Kenyans has raised a question more familiar to modern Germans than modern Britons: Are the sins of one generation to be visited on its successors?