Hippolyte Marboua and Krista Larson/ AP Staff A coalition of rebel groups that signed a peace accord with the Central African Republic government two months ago is now threatening to take up arms again if a list of demands is not met by Wednesday, a move that threatens to derail efforts to stabilize the country. […]
Rasool Dawar and Riaz Khan/ AP Staff The Pakistani Taliban on Monday withdrew their offer of holding peace talks with the government, saying that the authorities were not serious about following through with negotiations. The Taliban statement came as a pair of suicide bombers attacked a court complex in the northwestern city of Peshawar. One […]
Karel Janicek/AP Writer The Czech Republic’s conservative President Vaclav Klaus is facing high treason charges over his controversial amnesty of thousands of prison inmates and others, an unprecedented case that is tainting his final days in the post after a rocky decade. Lawmakers in Parliament’s upper house, which is dominated by the leftwing opposition, voted […]
Jorge Rueda and Fabiola Sanchez/ AP Staff President Hugo Chavez has been receiving chemotherapy since recovering from a severe respiratory infection in mid-January and “continues his battle for life,” his vice president said late Friday. Vice President Nicolas Maduro suggested the chemotherapy was continuing in the government’s first mention of it as among treatments that […]
Heidi Vogt and Kimberly Dozier/ AP Staff Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out once again at his supposed ally, Pakistan, saying Monday that a statement by a Pakistani cleric endorsing suicide bombings in Afghanistan shows the neighboring country is not sincere in efforts to fight terrorism. “Afghanistan wants a real struggle against terrorism and wants […]
Peter Orsi/AP Writer Tobacco: It’s what’s for dinner. A team of Croatian chefs whipped up a pungent meal Thursday, infusing the flavor of the tobacco leaf synonymous with Cuba into baked stone bass filets, bread and butter, a rich demi-glace sauce, even ice cream. The result was a tangy heat that one taster likened to […]
Christopher Bodeen/AP Writer China executed four foreigners on Friday for killing 13 Chinese sailors in an attack on the Mekong River, following a live nationwide broadcast showing them being led to their deaths that harkened back to the mass public execution rallies of past years. The attack on the sailors on the Mekong highlighted drug […]
Tom Odula/ AP Writer One of Kenya’s most vilified institutions — its police force — will be in the spotlight next week during its efforts to prevent the same type of post-election bloodbath that Kenya suffered during its last presidential election. Kenya on Monday holds its first presidential vote since the 2007 election devolved into […]
Nataliya Vasilyeva/ AP Writer Russian President Vladimir Putin told the country’s top brass on Wednesday to drastically upgrade the armed forces in the next few years as part of response to attempts by the United States and NATO to “tip the strategic balance” in the world. In his address to Russia’s defense ministry and top […]
E. Eduardo Castillo and Olga R. Rodriguez/ AP Staff Mexico’s most powerful woman was formally charged with a massive embezzlement scheme on Wednesday, standing grim-faced behind bars live on national television in what many called a clear message that the new government is asserting its authority. The country watched rapt as national teacher’s union head […]
Lara Jakes and Peter Leonard/AP Staff World powers offered broader concessions than ever to Iran in attempts Wednesday keep alive diplomatic channels that seek to rein in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and prevent it from building an atomic weapon. The offer was hailed by Saeed Jalili, Iran’s top official at diplomatic talks in Kazakhstan, […]
Nataliya Vasilyeva and Ryan Lucas/ AP Staff Syria is ready to hold talks with the armed opposition trying to topple President Bashar Assad, the country’s foreign minister said Monday, in the government’s most advanced offer yet to try to resolve the 2-year-old civil war through negotiations. Walid al-Moallem did not say whether rebel fighters would […]
