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ADA, Ohio — I met my client Pierre in a southern Rwandan prison in 1998. “The authorities ordered us to kill Tutsis,†he explained. It was, he was sure, a defense that could lighten his sentence. He had pleaded guilty to killing about half a dozen Tutsis in ...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a Chinese tourist and a Filipino hotel worker, both women, from a beach resort on an island in Malaysian Borneo, Chinese and Malaysian authorities said Thursday, spurring an international ...
KIEV, Ukraine — Viktor F. Yanukovych, the deposed president of Ukraine, called Russia's annexation of Crimea a “tragedy†on Wednesday and said he would try to negotiate the region's return from President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Yet he absolved both ...
NASA said Wednesday that it was suspending most contacts with Russian space agency officials, underscoring just how rapidly the Russian-American relationship is deteriorating in the wake of the Kremlin's annexation of Crimea and hinting at further ...
NASA said Wednesday that it was suspending most contacts with Russian space agency officials, underscoring just how rapidly the Russian-American relationship is deteriorating in the wake of the Kremlin's annexation of Crimea and hinting at further ...
President Mahmoud Abbas met with Palestinian leaders on Tuesday, signing documents to join 15 international bodies. Credit Atef Safadi/European Pressphoto Agency. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the ...
Fredrik Hedenus is an assistant professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He is a co-author, with Stefan Wirsenius and Daniel Johansson, of a study on meat and dairy consumption in the journal "Climate Change." April 1, 2014. To avoid ...
High tide in Kiribati, an island nation seen as especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change, like rising sea levels. Credit Kadir van Lohuizen for The New York Times. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading ...
CAIRO — Over seven decades, the United States and Saudi Arabia forged a strategic alliance that became a linchpin of the regional order: a liberal democracy and an ultraconservative monarchy united by shared interests in the stability of the Middle East ...
Despite a long-term decline in the number of countries practicing capital punishment, publicly disclosed executions jumped nearly 15 percent in 2013 compared with a year earlier, largely because of “virtual killing sprees†carried out by the authorities in Iran ...
A tourist boat navigated through a haze in the Guangdong Province of China this month. The country's rapid urbanization was cited as contributing to pollution. Credit Alex Lee/Reuters. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story.
JOHANNESBURG — The prosecution rested its case in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial on Tuesday, after three weeks of testimony in which it sought to portray Mr. Pistorius as a spoiled, angry and jealous man whose charming public facade hid a deep and ...
JOHANNESBURG — The prosecution rested its case in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial on Tuesday, after three weeks of testimony in which it sought to portray Mr. Pistorius as a spoiled, angry and jealous man whose charming public facade hid a deep and ...
JOHANNESBURG — The prosecution rested its case in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial on Tuesday, after three weeks of testimony in which it sought to portray Mr. Pistorius as a spoiled, angry and jealous man whose charming public facade hid a deep and ...
ROME — Secretary of State John Kerry plans to fly to Amman, Jordan, on Wednesday and will meet with Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday. The meeting comes at a critical juncture ...
SIMFEROPOL, Crimea — The acting president of Ukraine, Oleksandr V. Turchynov, formally ordered the withdrawal of the remaining Ukrainian military forces in Crimea on Monday, ending an increasingly futile effort by some troops to hold on to their bases ...
BANGKOK — Thailand's Constitutional Court annulled the country's February general election on Friday, throwing an already murky political situation into further doubt. The election was called by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in response to months of ...
SEPANG, Malaysia — The Chinese government on Tuesday ruled out the possibility that any Chinese passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight were terrorists or malcontents who tried to seize the plane. The Chinese ambassador to Malaysia also ...
PORT BLAIR, India — After scouring more than 24,000 nautical square miles, India on Sunday suspended its search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the waters around the isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands chain while officials in Kuala Lumpur ...
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