This week, American soldiers climbed a mountain in the Korangal Valley of Afghanistan, where a remote base was being closed.
Closing the Korangal Outpost after four years was a tacit admission that setting up a base in the isolated valley was a mistake.
President Obama’s declaration that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a vital U.S. security interest was a reminder of how hard he might push for peace.
A compromise deal would limit and ultimately end whale hunting by Japan, Norway and Iceland, said people involved with the negotiations.
Many Sudanese attribute their country’s economic transformation to President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is suspected of war crimes and often perceived as a villain in the West.
The Vatican sought to distance itself from comments by its secretary of state that homosexuality is “a pathology” and linked to sexual abuse.
Officials said the quake centered on Yushu County, a remote and mountainous area sparsely populated by farmers and herdsmen, most of them ethnic Tibetans.
Iran could produce enough fuel for at least one nuclear weapon within a year, but would likely need two to five years to make a workable bomb, two top officials said.
The deadly storm last week has raised lingering questions about the Olympic city’s emergency readiness and revived a debate over the poor squatter communities that have sprung up.
Kasit Piromya, the Thai foreign minister, said in the U.S. there was a need for more open discussion on the role of the monarchy in his country.
On Thursday, Gordon Brown and his two principal opponents will break a taboo that has lasted in Britain since the dawn of the television age.
Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious festival took place on the banks of India’s Ganges River.
Hours after President Lech Kaczynski’s plane crashed, sellers were hawking everything from kitsch commemorative clocks to to Internet domain names.
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
April 14, 2010
The very forces of globalism that were expected to erode local cultures are helping to preserve them.
By closing one of the last chapters of World War II, a reconciled Poland and Russia could bring about a more stable and united Europe.
Lured by enormous profits, alcohol bootleggers have created clandestine delivery services to evade recent crackdowns by the Taliban and the police.
Most residents of the Fort National neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, fled their homes after the earthquake on Jan. 12, but some stayed behind.
Government-financed brigades of graffiti artists and muralists are blanketing the walls of Caracas, Venezuela, with politicized images, ranging from crude, semi-anonymous graffiti tags to bold, colorful works.
In the midst of a controversial dam project in the heart of the Amazon, James Cameron, the writer and director of “Avatar,” finds his real-world Na’vi.
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Video: Stalemate in Korangal Valley
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