Month: February 2011

LONDON—More than 1,000 police officers kept a far-right group and anti-fascist protesters apart during rival demonstrations in an English town on Saturday. Officers formed cordons to separate about 2,000 supporters of the English Defense League […] […]

CAIRO—Egypt’s foreign minister has told Iran to mind its own business after Iran’s top leader praised the Egyptian uprising as an appropriate response to dictatorial rule. Ahmed Aboul Gheit told reporters Saturday that Iran’s Ali […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Authorities in Jamaica say a car has hit and killed a tourist from Lexington, Kentucky, and injured his girlfriend as they were walking in the resort area of Negril. Jamaican police say 57-year-old Roy […] […]

THE US has thrown its weight behind nascent reforms led by Egypt’s new vice president as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said international support was crucial to prevent extremists from hijacking the political transition. […] […]

TUNIS, TUNISIA—Police fired at an angry crowd of 1,000 attacking the police station in the northwestern town of Kef on Saturday, killing two people and injuring 17 others, the Interior Ministry said. The official Tunisian […] […]

Police in Switzerland, France and Italy are desperately searching for 6-year-old twin girls after their Canadian-born father, who allegedly abducted them from their mother last week, committed suicide late Thursday night. The body of Matthias […] […]

BRITAIN: A confidential police report detailing sexual assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been leaked online, days before a hearing to decide whether he should be extradited to Sweden. The file, which contains […] […]

The shrinking of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina has hardly been a secret, but now the evidence is there for all to see. According to newly released data from last year’s National Census, it lost […] […]