Residents of Sana, Yemen, waited at a gas station for fuel last week. Shortages of gas and other basic goods and services have heightened tensions in the city and set off fights and protests.
Even if its political situation stabilizes and the fighting ends, Yemen faces an economic collapse with shortages of oil, electricity and water and rising food prices.
Government forces shelled a string of towns even as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned President Bashar al-Assad that his legitimacy had “nearly run out.”
Rights group see recent arrests in Baghdad as an attempt to nip dissent in the bud, while fatal explosions in Ramadi raise new concerns about security.
The efforts, from the Republican leadership and a liberal Democrat, highlight tensions over a president’s ability to wage war.
In a shantytown near Johannesburg, an angry mob committed a horrifying crime that was caught on video.
A reference to the jailed artist Ai Weiwei was apparently too much for the authorities.
The strain, which a World Health Organization official called unique in news reports on Thursday, has sickened 1,500 people in Germany, and killed at least 16.
At least 27 Pakistani troops have been killed as a battle with militants who crossed the border from Afghanistan into northwestern Pakistan entered its second day on Thursday.
At least 200 migrants seeking to cross from Libya into Europe were missing Thursday after having fallen out of their capsized vessel during a rescue operation off the coast of Tunisia.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan survived a no-confidence vote in Parliament but only after promising to resign once recovery from recent natural disasters gets underway.
After decades of failure, anticorruption agitators in India are getting the government’s attention with plans for a yoga rally and mass hunger strikes.
The dam’s planners failed to properly gauge its effects on lakes and other bodies of water downstream, especially during the drought conditions that are now ravaging the area, an official said.
Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, called for the creation of a central finance ministry to monitor spending in the European Union.
Faced with significantly reduced military spending, the United States should pursue cooperation with Asian allies to defend regional security, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday.
The swap agreement between Australia and Malaysia has also been criticized by opposition parties in Australia, who warn that harsh treatment may await hundreds of migrants who could be headed to Malaysia.
June 2, 2011
Bolstered by the Arab Spring and coming elections, Kurds in Turkey are pressing longstanding claims for broader parliamentary representation and more cultural freedoms.
After billions of dollars spent on the project, water sent north along the eastern line is polluted by industrial runoff and municipal waste.
In one of Afghanistan’s poorest provinces, the country’s forces are beginning to handle security, relations with the people and even dispute resolution.
For some soldiers, returning after their yearlong deployment to Afghanistan was the beginning of new difficulties.
Classified military documents provide accounts of the men who have done time at the prison and the evidence against the 172 men still locked up there.
Documents related to the 779 people who have been sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison since 2002.
Videos, photographs and interactive features documenting the destruction in Japan after a powerful earthquake and tsunami devastated the country on March 11.
At a cross-disciplinary arts forum in Beijing, established artists advised members of the emerging generation not to merely follow formulas offered by the academies.
Interactive Feature: A Year at War
