World/Local News

Kenza Drider, a respectable mother of four, will leave her home in Avignon’s Place de la Resistance today with the intention of committing a crime. If the police are waiting for her – and they […] […]

CAIRO—In the first remarks since his ouster, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak denied he abused his authority to amass wealth and property in a pre-recorded speech broadcast Sunday. Mubarak, forced out of office two months […] […]

LONDON—Police charged a Royal Navy sailor on Sunday with murdering an officer aboard a British nuclear-powered submarine. Able Seaman Ryan Donovan, 22, is also charged with the attempted murder of three other crew on HMS […] […]

MINGORA, Pakistan—Seven suspected militants were killed early Sunday in a clash with Pakistani security forces in a northwest valley once controlled by the Taliban, police said. The suspects were believed to have been fleeing a […] […]

Grief-stricken relatives threw themselves on caskets and wept to exhaustion as Rio buried most of the 12 children killed in a school shooting. The massacre shocked Brazilians and stoked new calls for stricter guns laws. […] […]

Japan’s government has announced it will ban farmers from planting rice in soil contaminated by radiation from the tsunami-flooded nuclear power plant, adding to the list of items raising concerns about another food central to […] […]

BAGHDAD — A day after Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested that American troops could remain here for years, tens of thousands of protesters allied with Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical anti-American Shiite cleric, flooded the streets […] […]

BAGHDAD—Iran’s top diplomat on Saturday praised Iraqi authorities for launching a deadly raid on a camp of Iranian exiles considered terrorists by Tehran. Iran’s lone voice of support against a chorus of international criticism of […] […]

PARIS—Paris police say authorities arrested 61 people—including 19 women—in connection with their attempt to hold an illegal Paris demonstration against France’s upcoming ban on face-covering Islamic veils. A top Paris police official says 59 people […] […]

ISRAELI tank fire killed a Palestinian in Gaza early this morning, taking to 12 the overall toll from the deadliest 24 hours since a devastating war more than two years ago. A truce declared by […] […]