Month: February 2011

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA—North Korea’s military threatened Sunday to fire at South Korea, as Seoul prepared to start annual joint drills with U.S. troops, manoeuvers Pyongyang says are a rehearsal for an invasion. The North’s military […] […]

The U.N. Security Council moved Saturday to halt Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s deadly crackdown on protesters, slapping sanctions on him, his five children and 10 top associates. Voting unanimously after daylong discussions interrupted with breaks […] […]

OTTAWA—Canada has pulled its diplomats out of Libya as the international community moves to punish Moammar Gadhafi for his violence against pro-democracy protesters. The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved military and financial sanctions against […] […]

TOBRUK, LIBYA—The eighth day of the Libyan revolution was composed in roughly equal parts of this — banner-waving protesters marching in the streets, men in kaffiyehs firing automatic rifles into the sand-ridden sky and good […] […]

COLONEL Gaddafi secretly deposited 3 billion pounds ($4.8bn) with one of London’s Mayfair private wealth managers last week as he sought to protect his family’s fortunes. The deal was brokered on his behalf by a […] […]

CHICAGO—The plan was simple: The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Chicago’s other black leaders would choose one black candidate to run for mayor, invoke the name of the city’s respected first black mayor and watch its […] […]

LONDON—A private detective convicted of hacking into royal officials’ cell phones for a British tabloid newspaper must give evidence in related cases in the widening scandal, a judge ruled Friday. High Court Judge Geoffrey Vos […] […]

CARACAS, Venezuela—Moammar Gadhafi’s allies in Latin America should follow Peru’s example and suspend diplomatic relations with the North African nation’s regime, the representative of a leading Jewish organization said Friday. Sergio Widder, the Latin American […] […]

VIENNA—The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency said Friday that “recently received” information is adding to concerns Iran may have worked on developing nuclear arms. At the same time, a report by the organization—The International Atomic Energy […] […]

SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni security forces opened fire on thousands of demonstrators in the southern port city of Aden after Friday’s Muslim prayer services, wounding at least 19 people, in the latest confrontation with crowds […] […]