World/Local News

AUSTRALIA, Canada and Singapore today joined a list of countries shunning Japanese food imports as radioactive steam wafted anew from a disaster-struck nuclear plant, straining nerves in Tokyo. The grim toll of dead and missing […] […]

AN American soldier has been sentenced to 24 years in prison after saying “the plan was to kill people” in a conspiracy with four fellow soldiers to kill unarmed Afghan civilians. Military judge Lieutenant Colonel […] […]

CAIRO—Forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi resumed attacks on Libya’s third-largest city early Thursday despite aerial bombardments by Canadian and other coalition warplanes aimed at halting the violence. The barrage of coalition airstrikes, which involved four […] […]

RABAT—Two AFP journalists and a photographer arrested in Libya last week were released in Tripoli, the agency said on Wednesday. Al Jazeera television also said authorities would release its reporting crew within 24 hours. According […] […]

THE mother of Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian fruitseller whose desperate protest was the unlikely catalyst for the widespread turmoil across the Middle East, says she will stop her grieving because of the success of the […] […]

WORK at the No. 2 reactor at Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant was halted today after radiation levels of 500 millisieverts were detected, Kyodo News agency reported. The work suspension came after two workers at […] […]

SYRIAN police have fired teargas on protesters in the southern town of Daraa, rocked by a fifth straight day of anti-regime protests, a human rights activist says. The incident took place near the Omari mosque […] […]

SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s U.S.-backed president, his support crumbling among political allies and the army, warned that the country could slide into a “bloody” civil war Tuesday as the opposition rejected his offer to step […] […]

BU MARIEM, Libya—The U.S. pilot who ejected from a fighter jet that crashed in eastern Libya found himself surrounded early Tuesday by curious locals who served him juice and thanked his country for bombing forces […] […]

AJDABIYA, LIBYA—President Barack Obama says he has no doubt that the U.S. will be able to transfer control of the military operation in Libya to an international coalition within days. Obama and other U.S. officials […] […]