Thousands of people demonstrated Thursday in the Syrian capital, Damascus, in a protest, apparently stage-managed by the government, against the American military raid across the Iraqi border into Syrian territory on Sunday.
Accounts of the demonstration were carried by SANA, Syria’s official news agency. It would be highly unusual for a spontaneous demonstration [...]
ATLANTA — By 10 a.m. Wednesday, Margaret Jones and her sister, Ann Simmons, had waited 90 minutes to vote early at the Adamsville Recreation Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Sitting with hundreds of others in the center’s gymnasium, they had perhaps another hour left — but they didn’t mind. “If it takes [...]
NAIROBI, Kenya — With rebels closing in and artillery shells raining down, the United Nations said it decided on Tuesday to extract its aid workers who were holed up in the eastern Congolese village of Rutshuru.
But the attempt to evacuate roughly 50 aid workers trapped in the battle zone deep in the forest [...]
WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama will use his prime-time half-hour infomercial on Wednesday night to make what is effectively a closing argument to a national audience of millions. At times he will speak directly into the camera about his 20-month campaign, at others he will highlight everyday voters, their everyday troubles, and his plans to [...]
A west African court has found Niger’s government guilty of failing to protect a 12-year-old who was sold into slavery in a landmark decision that may offer hope to thousands of others who are enslaved in the region.
Hadijatou Mani, who is now 24, had testified that she had been sold as a slave [...]
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Stéphane Dion was expected to step down as leader of Canada’s opposition Liberal party last night after less than two years at the helm and within a week of a drubbing at the general election.
The frontrunner to succeed him is Michael Ignatieff, the former Harvard scholar and author, who is the party’s deputy [...]
(Reuters) - With just two weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election, the campaigns increasingly focus on battleground states where opinion polls show Democrat Barack Obama with a significant lead on Republican rival John McCain.
Obama leads in all of the states won by Democrat John Kerry in 2004 as well as in [...]
TOKYO (AFP) — Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he hoped to wrap up an elusive free trade agreement with Japan by the end of this year as he arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday for economic talks.
Singh also sounded out Japan about investing in India’s nuclear energy market, despite Tokyo’s concerns over New [...]
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) — Following the killing of an aid worker in Kabul, the Afghan government is reviewing how best to protect all such foreign aid workers, officials say.
Voice of America reported Tuesday that hundreds of foreign aid workers in the war-torn country have been told they need to take increased [...]