Articles by sandrea

The startling rebel breakthrough in Tripoli has turned into a manhunt for Moammar Gadhafi, the mercurial leader whose remaining loyalists are fighting to keep control of shrinking pockets of the Libyan capital. Rebel leaders claimed […] […]

TEHRAN, Iran—Tehran has put on display a new Iranian-made cruise missile, which it says has a range of 124 miles and is capable of destroying a warship. The cruise missile, designed for sea-based targets, is […] […]

ANKARA, Turkey—Turkey’s military said Tuesday its air strikes on suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq this week have killed an estimated 90 to 100 guerrillas and warned that it would press ahead with offensives […] […]

BEIJING—A major Chinese online commerce site has banned sales of software used to bypass Internet censorship amid Beijing’s efforts to block the development of a Middle East-style protest movement. But Taobao.com, part of e-commerce giant […] […]

PARIS—France’s foreign minister says he hopes NATO’s air operation over in Libya will end “as soon as possible”—once rebel fighters topple Moammar Gadhafi and his forces for good. Alain Juppe says France and Britain were […] […]

LONDON—Scottish officials overseeing the parole of a Libyan man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing said Monday they want to contact him now that the fighting between Libyan forces and rebels has reached Tripoli. Abdel Baset […] […]

Tourists and Washingtonians got their first up-close look at the memorial to the U.S.civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The site opened to kick off a week of celebrations ahead of Sunday’s official […] […]

THE first person to be extradited to Britain from Bahrain is facing a life sentence for murdering a woman whose body was dumped in a suitcase at Heathrow airport. Youseff Wahid, 42, a former air […] […]