TACOMA, Wash., (Reuters) – A decorated American soldier was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole yesterday for killing 16 unarmed Afghan civilians, mostly women and children, in two bloody nighttime forays from his military post.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Violent clashes between inmates in a maximum-security prison in Bolivia killed at least 29 people, including one child, officials said yesterday.
SANAA, (Reuters) – A vow made in a phone call by the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to carry out an attack that would “change the face of history” lay behind this month’s closures of many Western embassies, Yemen’s president said.
TRIPOLI, Lebanon, (Reuters) – Twin explosions outside two mosques killed at least 27 people and wounded hundreds in apparently coordinated attacks in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli today, a senior health official and witnesses said.
BEIRUT/PARIS, (Reuters) – The United Nations demanded Syria give its chemical weapons experts immediate access yesterday to rebel-held Damascus suburbs where poison gas appears to have killed hundreds just a few miles from the U.N.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The Honduran Congress approved yesterday the creation of a new military-style police force, which is aimed at countering violence spawned by Mexican drug cartels that use the country to transport cocaine.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Trading in thousands of U.S. stocks ground to a halt for much of yesterday after an unexplained technological problem shut down trading in Nasdaq securities, the latest prominent disruption to the operations of U.S.
NEW YORK/LONDON, (Reuters) – Business surveys yesterday suggested the world economy was on the mend, with U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier sentenced to 35 years in military prison for the biggest breach of classified documents in the nation’s history, said yesterday he is female and wants to live as a woman named Chelsea.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A year after the first cholera cases in decades were reported in Cuba, the country is still struggling with outbreaks in various provinces, health workers and residents told Reuters yesterday.
BEIRUT/AMMAN, (Reuters) – Syria’s opposition accused government forces of gassing hundreds of people yesterday by firing rockets that released deadly fumes over rebel-held Damascus suburbs, killing men, women and children as they slept.
FORT MEADE, Md., (Reuters) – U.S. soldier Bradley Manning was sentenced yesterday to 35 years in a military prison for turning over more than 700,000 classified files to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of secret data in the nation’s history.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will leave jail as early as today after a court ruling that jolted a divided nation already in turmoil seven weeks after the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will leave jail as early as tomorrow after a court ruling that jolted a divided nation already in turmoil seven weeks after the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The British government, accused of abusing media freedom, said yesterday police were right to detain a journalist’s partner if they thought lives might be at risk from data he was carrying from fugitive U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday adopted a harder line toward Egypt’s military-backed government, stressing that its bloody crackdown on protesters could influence U.S.
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A court in Pakis-tan charged former military dictator Pervez Musharraf yesterday with the 2007 murder of Benazir Bhutto in an unprecedented move likely to anger the all-powerful army.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – Public executions and torture are daily occurrences in North Korea’s prisons, according to dramatic testimony from former inmates at a U.N.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Malaysian entrepreneur Matt Chandran wants to revive the moribund post-mortem by replacing the scalpel with a scanner and the autopsy slab with a touchscreen computer.
(Reuters) – New cable network Al Jazeera America introduced itself to U.S.
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