“Many of those who have crossed the border recently have come without any belongings, having fled what they say was heavy military bombardment of Tall Kalakh and surrounding areas,” Mahecic said. “Most have found shelter with relatives or host families, and some are residing temporarily in a school in Tall Biri.” “Most of the people […]

It is unclear whether even six to nine months will be enough to start a cleanup. Tokyo Electric in the past week has released data that show that the fuel rods at the three most damaged reactors started to melt down rapidly after the site was jolted by a quake at 2:46 p.m. on March […]

Yun “conveyed US concerns about Burma’s military relationship with North Korea and called on the government to abide by its public commitments to uphold UN Security Council resolutions in that regard,” the statement added. US diplomatic memos released last year by the website WikiLeaks said that Washington has suspected for years that Myanmar ran a […]

Yemeni opposition figure Yehya Abu Usba’a said that President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the opposition agreed to sign the Gulf initiative which entails a transfer of power and minor alterations. This comes after the US and European diplomatic intervention. Convincing Saleh Diplomats and opposition leaders had raised hopes early in the day that Abdul Latif […]

The former president, who was ousted on 11 February following an unprecedented 18 days of protests, is currently in a hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh and under investigation on a host of corruption and abuse of power charges. For most of the activists who took part in the anti-Mubarak uprising, the idea of pardoning the 83-year-old […]

A Taliban attack on an Afghan road construction company early on Thursday triggered an hours-long firefight that killed 36 people and wounded another 20 in the worst single attack for months, while a Taliban suicide attack on Afghan police in Jalalabad killed 13 and injured 20 others. The attack happened in the eastern province of […]

In May last year, Greece’s Socialist government negotiated a EUR110 billion bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in exchange for measures to cut its bloated budget deficit and reform its economy. Since then, Greece has cut its budget deficit by about a third, to 10.5% of gross domestic product last year, […]

The Mexican government has warned the United States against any actions that could infringe on its sovereignty. A war between the cartels and the Mexican government that started in December 2006 has claimed about 35,000 lives. A “terrorist” designation for drug cartels also would make it easier for the Justice Department to extradite gang members […]

The mixture of cuts and tax hikes has succeeded in trimming the deficit by 5% — an impressive performance in a time of recession, economists say. But the austerity measures have also worsened the recession, now in its third year. And because of slumping output and rising unemployment, currently at 15.1%, the markets are still […]

Mr. Demjanjuk will remain free at least until the appeals process runs its course. Margarete Nötzel, a judge who is spokesman for the Munich courts, estimated that the appeals would take a year and a half, but she said two years was also plausible. Just compiling documents and transcripts from the trial could take six […]