BERLIN — Banks have used quiet emergency loans from the European Central Bank, which has resisted buying up government debt in its own right, to come to their governments’ rescue.
ROME — Prime Minister Mario Monti proposed a package that includes efforts to liberalize certain industries and services, and a $7.1 billion investment in infrastructure projects.
PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy suspended Afghan military operations on Friday and said he was considering an early withdrawal after an attack killed four French soldiers.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Somali government is trying to drive the Islamic militants they have long battled out of the capital, officials and witnesses said.
The International Herald Tribune is convening the global community with a new blog.
A national biosecurity panel in the United States had asked researchers who produced a more contagious form of the bird flu virus to keep some data secret.
PARIS — The European Union moved toward a phased oil embargo and sanctions to press Tehran into nuclear talks.
BERLIN — The founder of Megaupload, which was shut down after a police raid in New Zealand, went by the name Kim Dotcom and made no secret of his exploits.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Mitt Romney now faces, at a minimum, a long fight for the Republican nomination.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The fiery suicide of a Tunisian fruit vendor is credited with touching off the Arab Spring, yet the anger and frustration that prompted those uprisings persist.
JAIPUR, India — Salman Rushdie’s cancellation is the latest in a series of blows to free speech in India that have included a court challenge to Internet sites Google and Facebook.
ISLAMABAD — Police officials said on Friday that they were searching for two European aid workers who were kidnapped the day before in central Pakistan.
JERUSALEM — During a visit to Israel, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for closer engagement with the United States amid tension over Iran’s nuclear program.
RIO BRANCO, Brazil — Huge geometric shapes in Brazil suggest that contrary to conventional understanding, parts of the rain forest may have been home to large populations.
LONGWOOD, Fla. — The Senator, a huge 3,500-year-old bald cypress, burned and collapsed in a Florida swamp after a suspected lightning strike — although arson remains a possibility.
A new biography argues that Ben Jonson, Britain’s first literary celebrity, was as central as Shakespeare to the development of the British theater.
In Benoît Peeters’s biography, Georges Remi, creator of the Tintin comics, emerges in three dimensions from behind his famous comic books.
The artist Ellsworth Kelly, 88, continues to pursue color, line and shape in their purest forms.
Worsening economic conditions are sabotaging hopes for a democratic future. The government must make reforms if it wants to spur growth.
Seven of the top 20 men’s squash players in the world are from Egypt.
Liberia’s president risks future conflict by awarding land to foreign investors.
Stalls are now in food courts, enabling one-stop eating for street food.
The middle class should consolidate its gains before pushing on.
The “fastest man on no legs” may be Olympic-bound.
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