Month: April 2011

SANAA, YEMEN—Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis converged in the capital Friday for rival demonstrations, with some demanding the president’s ouster and others showing their support. Police and army units were deployed in Sanaa to prevent […] […]

AMSTERDAM — One of Europe’s first countries to allow Jews to practice their religion openly may soon pass a law banning centuries-old Jewish and Muslim traditions on the ritual slaughter of animals. In the Netherlands, […] […]

GENEVA — Snipers are targeting children in the besieged rebel-held Libyan city of Misrata, the UN’s children agency said Friday. Hundreds of residents have been killed and wounded in the assault by Gadhafi’s forces on […] […]

RIO DE JANEIRO—A gunman opened fire at a public elementary school in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, killing at least 11 students before taking his own life. At least 18 other people, mostly students, were […] […]

TRIPOLI, LIBYA —Rebel fighters claimed NATO airstrikes blasted their forces Thursday in another apparent mistake that sharply escalated anger about co-ordination with the military alliance in efforts to cripple Libyan forces. At least two rebels […] […]

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake has struck off the north-east coast of Japan, triggering tsunami warnings and panics in the wake of last month’s devastating magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami. The aftershock stuck at 11.32pm was […] […]

There is no doubting the bullet holes that the shoot-out left around the stage of the Audubon Ballroom, north of Harlem, or the shocking assassination of Malcolm X there on February 21, 1965. But the […] […]

MEXICO CITY—Fifty-nine bodies were found buried Wednesday in a series of pits in the northern Mexico state of Tamaulipas, near the site where suspected drug gang members massacred 72 migrants last summer, officials said. Security […] […]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—An Argentine human rights group says DNA evidence has identified the 103rd young person who was stolen at birth during the country’s dictatorship in the late 1970s. The Grandmothers of the Plaza de […] […]

Ecuador said yesterday it is expelling the US ambassador over a diplomatic cable divulged by WikiLeaks that accuses a newly retired police chief of a long history of corruption and speculates that President Rafael Correa […] […]