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For a group of students who often met at the school, on the University of Minnesota campus, those words seemed especially fitting. They had fled Somalia as small boys, escaping a catastrophic civil war. They came of age as refugees in Minneapolis,...
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We’re just minutes away from the Michael Jackson Memorial of the Century, which we understand will cost Angelenos their public swimming pools and the 710 bus line, but will give them an unforgettable broadcast starring Justin Timberlake and Ne-Yo that...
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya was kept from landing at the main Honduras airport Sunday because the runway was blocked by groups of soldiers with military vehicles, some of them lined up against a crowd of thousands outside.
His Venezuelan pilots...
Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has an emergency button under his desk that was installed 30 years ago after former City Supervisor Dan White entered City Hall through a window and fatally shot Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk....
Iraq’s deadliest bomb this year ripped through a Shia mosque in the north of the country yesterday, killing at least 73 people and injuring around 200.
A suicide bomber detonated a lorry bomb in the town of Taza, 20km (13 miles) south of the city...
Afghanistan’s kidnap economy has not quite reached the heights of Iraq’s at its worst point, but it is certainly a growth industry and shows the same ugly nexus between insurgent groups and criminal gangs in a country with often weak and corrupt...
The “age of empires has ended” and the “international capitalist order is retreating,” declared a beaming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday, speaking in the Siberian city of Yekaterinburg before an audience that included the top...
CIA Director Leon Panetta told a federal judge Monday that releasing documents about the agency’s terror interrogations would gravely damage national security.
Panetta sent a 24-page missive to New York federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, arguing...
A retired State Department worker and his wife have been arrested on charges of spying for Cuba for three decades, using grocery carts among their array of tools to pass US secrets to the communist government in a security breach one official described...
Amid repeated threats by President Hugo Chavez to shut down the Globovision television station, government prosecutors Thursday indicted the station’s main owner over an unrelated business deal.
Prosecutors charged that Guillermo Zuloaga, who...
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