The brutal gang-rape of a U.S. student in a Rio bus has revived concern about public safety ahead of the World Cup and the 2016 summer Olympics, despite an overall drop in violence.
2013/4/4 |
The new government has optimistically promised that business activity will resume on Tuesday, but getting the Central African Republic's economy back on its feet will be no easy task after the havoc wreaked by the country's latest coup, experts said.
2013/4/3 |
The new government has optimistically promised that business activity will resume on Tuesday, but getting the Central African Republic's economy back on its feet will be no easy task after the havoc wreaked by the country's latest coup, experts said.
2013/4/3 |
Gasping for breath and confined to her bed, Bilqees Khan winces as she recalls the moment a pepper gas grenade exploded by her home during a curfew in Indian Kashmir's summer capital.
2013/4/2 |
The Golan's native Druze have remained fiercely loyal to Damascus through 46 years of Israeli occupation but as the Syrian civil war draws ever closer, it is dividing the tight-knit community.
2013/4/2 , 1 Comment |
Soaring tensions on the Korean Peninsula have seen dire North Korean threats met with an unusually assertive U.S. response that analysts warn could take a familiar game into dangerous territory.
2013/4/1 |
When the terms of the first and now abandoned EU bailout deal for crisis-stricken Cyprus were announced, Russian President Vladimir Putin bared his fangs to describe the proposal as “unfair, unprofessional and dangerous.”
2013/4/1 |
After embracing the Internet age and filing breaking news on Twitter and Facebook, Myanmar's long-muzzled reporters are gearing up for another revolution — daily newspapers.
2013/3/29 |
Divisions in the ranks of Syria's opposition are being driven by rivalries between two powerful regional axes — one led by Turkey and Qatar and the other by Saudi Arabia backed by Washington, experts say.
2013/3/29 |
Iraq's win over Syria in a landmark Baghdad tie highlighted the nations' tilting fortunes — one fitfully emerging from decades of conflict, the other seemingly spiraling into worsening violence.
2013/3/28 |
