Syria Escalates Crackdown as Tanks Go to Restive City
By ANTHONY SHADID
BEIRUT — The army deployed tanks in Dara’a on Monday, according to accounts by human rights activists, who said that at least five people had been killed.
BEIRUT — The army deployed tanks in Dara’a on Monday, according to accounts by human rights activists, who said that at least five people had been killed.
CAIRO — Bashar al-Assad, who has long encouraged hopes for a less repressive Syria and then dashed those hopes, is at a decisive moment.
TRIPOLI, Libya — NATO appeared to escalate its air war, while pro-Qaddafi forces renewed their shelling of Misurata.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban staged a bold prison break in Afghanistan, freeing at least 476 political prisoners, officials said.
Classified assessments of detainees at Guantánamo Bay prison obtained by The Times give the fullest public picture to date of the prisoners held there.
Analysts sometimes released detainees wrongly judged a minimal threat and held others who were no threat.
Documents related to the 779 people who have been sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison since 2002.
The jury in Raj Rajaratnam’s insider trading trial has heard much about Rajat Gupta, once one of the world’s most respected businessmen.
NEW DELHI — Investigators said they had uncovered irregularities in the awarding of contracts for the international sporting event.
KIEV, Ukraine — English-language newspapers in the former Soviet states deliver hard-hitting news and assert free-press ideals in a way their local counterparts do not.
JERUSALEM — The Palestinian police shot and killed one Israeli and wounded four others early Sunday after the Israelis surreptitiously visited a Jewish holy site inside a Palestinian-controlled area.
BENGHAZI, Libya — The rebels say they drove government forces out of the western city, though shelling has continued, while the government says that its forces withdrew while a cease-fire is being negotiated.
PORT-AU-PRINCE — More than half of the Haitians driven into camps by the 2010 earthquake have moved out, but most of them appear to have been forced out or to have left to escape crime and living conditions.
MINERAL WELLS, Tex. — A blog has been set up to share information among people forced to flee from an affluent vacation community.
“Let’s face it - corruption is now a generalized feature of our social-economic-political culture and going along to get along has become the stamp of our cohort,” writes Jon Jost in Seoul, Korea.
“It would be quite a thing if this happened. Will it require the votes of at least 60 senators to pass?” writes Stephen in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
The search giant is looking at issues like translating phone calls on the fly.
To break the stalemate, the president needs to put a plan on the table.
A well- known conductor contends there is no St. Petersburg’s “Tschaikowski” orchestra.
A Room for Debate forum on saving imperiled plants and animals.
A plan to show Chinese artifacts from a shipwreck is controversial.
Nevermind high-seas pirates, shippers can be criminals too.
Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, who were killed last week covering the fighting in Libya, used their cameras to convey the human suffering of war, David Carr writes.
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