Articles by sandrea

AFGHAN Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has confirmed talks between the insurgency and the US, and laid out a manifesto for a Taliban government that protects private business, exploits the country’s mineral wealth and maintains […] […]

AUGUST has become the deadliest month yet for US forces in the nearly 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, increasing pressure on the Obama administration to bring troops home sooner rather than later. The 66 US service […] […]

A BRITISH minister accidentally revealed a sensitive government document on Afghanistan on Tuesday which says London should welcome President Hamid Karzai’s departure in 2014. International Development Minister Andrew Mitchell inadvertently left the documents on display […] […]

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has been hospitalized after not eating or drinking enough since his recent conviction on child sexual assault charges, a prison official said Monday. The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of […] […]

The family of an 8-year-old New York City boy who was abducted, killed and dismembered has sued the suspect in his death and the suspect’s father for $100 million each. Leiby Kletzky went missing July […] […]

WASHINGTON—More than half of Muslim-Americans in a new poll say government anti-terrorism policies single them out for increased surveillance and monitoring, and many report increased cases of name-calling, threats and harassment by airport security, law […] […]

ROME—Mount Etna is spewing out ash and shooting spectacular bursts of lava high into the air as the eruption on the island of Sicily intensifies. Italy’s Civil Protection agency said Italy’s geophysics and volcanology institute […] […]

BEIRUT—Syrian security forces killed seven people on Tuesday as they opened fire to disperse thousands of protesters rallying against the regime on the first day of a Muslim holiday that marks the end of the […] […]

A MINNESOTA man has been charged for snapping nearly all of a 6-week-old boy’s ribs when he became angry with the baby’s mother earlier this month. According to the criminal complaint, 32-year-old Mark James Nelson […] […]