Prosecutors acknowledged that there were significant credibility issues with the hotel housekeeper who accused Mr. Strauss-Kahn, the French politician, of trying to rape her in May.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department announced Thursday that it is opening a full criminal investigation into the deaths of two detainees who died in C.I.A. custody.
General Motors said sales increased 10 percent last month compared to a year earlier, but the annualized selling rate for the industry likely fell to the lowest level of the year.
KABUL, Afghanistan — An airstrike in Paktia Province killed Ismal Jan, the man NATO officials say helped organize the hotel raid on Tuesday at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul.
The British military has provided body armor, police uniforms, and high visibility vests and T-shirts, Foreign Minister William Hague said in a written statement to Parliament.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Local Coordination Committees have become the wild cards in what is shaping up as a potentially decisive stage in Syria’s protest movement.
RUJBAN, Libya — In the last week, hundreds of families fleeing the capital have arrived at a rebel checkpoint in the middle of a winding mountain road, exhausted, relieved and willing to share their stories.
MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota began a broad shutdown of state services early Friday, after a divided government failed to agree on solving the state’s budget woes.