Month: February 2011

BENGHAZI, Libya – The scope of Moammar Gadhafi’s control was whittled away Wednesday, local time, as major Libyan cities and towns closer to the capital fell to the rebellion against his rule. In the east, […] […]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama condemned on Wednesday the violence in Libya as “outrageous … and unacceptable” and said he was dispatching Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Geneva, Switzerland, for international talks aimed […] […]

LONDON – Race should no longer be a key criteria for social workers seeking adoptive families for children in care, Britain’s Government said – stressing that the priority must be to find a child a […] […]

EGYPT’S military rulers have sworn in a new cabinet that includes 11 new ministers in a nod to the opposition movement that ousted longtime leader Hosni Mubarak but keeps three former members of the regime […] […]

WASHINGTON— A broken Libya — one half free, the other braced for the final fury of a dying regime — teetered in limbo Wednesday, with the ever-defiant Moammar Gadhafi threatening the worst. Amid rising global […] […]

SANTA MONICA, CALIF.—An adventurous quartet of retired yacht enthusiasts from California and Washington state were living their dreams, friends say, sailing around the world until they were shot and killed by Somali pirates on Tuesday. […] […]

1969: Moammar Gadhafi, then a 27-year-old captain, leads a largely peaceful coup that overthrows the monarchy and soon becomes Libya’s undisputed ruler. 1970s: Gadhafi embarks on far-reaching changes in establishing a socialist system, including nationalizing […] […]

CAIRO—Thank God for the Dutch. If it weren’t for the Dutch, there would have been no foreign tourists here at all on Sunday, strolling among the vast shadows of the legendary pyramids of Giza or […] […]