Month: March 2011

JACQUES Chirac has became the first former French president to go on trial as a court heard charges that he embezzled public funds while he was mayor of Paris in the 1990s. The 78-year-old, one […] […]

LIBYA—U.S. President Barack Obama warned Libya’s leaders that the U.S. and its NATO allies are still considering military options in response to what he called “unacceptable” violence perpetrated by supporters of Gadhafi. “I want to […] […]

President Hamid Karzai yesterday rejected an apology by the US general running the military campaign in his country for the deaths of nine boys in an attack by a helicopter gunship, sending relations with Washington […] […]

The two jets swooped low and fast, the missiles exploding nearby and forcing those on the road to dive for cover. Artillery shells and mortar rounds landed in salvos as dark plumes of smoke rose […] […]

MANAMA, Bahrain—Hundreds of members of Bahrain’s Shiite Muslim majority protested outside the U.S. Embassy on Monday to appeal for Washington to back their campaign for greater political freedom. The embassy said staff met with the […] […]

LONDON—Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague says he will upgrade the status of Palestinian diplomats in London. Hague told lawmakers on Monday that the Palestinian representation would be recognized as a full diplomatic mission. It had […] […]

STERLING, Va. — As a Republican congressman prepares to open hearings on the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism, President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser visited a mosque here Sunday to reassure Muslims that “we […] […]

VATICAN CITY—Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday lamented the deaths and humanitarian crisis caused by the fighting in Libya between forces loyal to longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi and those demanding his ouster. “My heartfelt thoughts go […] […]