After spending $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since 2003, the U.S. is concerned that Iraqis won’t be able to maintain the facilities once the Americans have left.
Officials from six countries and the European Union expressed disappointment that Iran had not accepted a deal to export most of its enriched uranium.
History has proven there are two subjects that will move Egyptians into the streets in riotous numbers, crashing windows, battling each other and defying an army of club-wielding riot police.
In Rome, the archbishop of Canterbury called for clarity on the future of Catholic-Anglican dialogue.
With Europe’s new top jobs going to two low-key bridge-builders, the bloc appears to have set its sights on repairing internal divisions before trying to construct a bigger global role.
The area of the attack is believed to hold many insurgents who fled from an army offensive elsewhere in the Afghan border region.
The recent unpopularity of President Asif Ali Zardari and resentment of America follow a familiar script.
Several children and a police officer were among the victims of the blast on a crowded market.
In his inaugural address, President Hamid Karzai said that the Afghan Army should assume full control of the country’s security within five years.
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President Obama sent Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Afghanistan to press President Hamid Karzai to deliver “measurable results” in return for civilian aid.
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The military deployed intense rescue efforts to conduct house-to-house searches for people trapped in their homes.
The Chinese government has held an American oil geologist on suspicion of stealing state secrets for nearly two years, prompting President Obama to raise the issue during his visit to Beijing.
Authorities appeared to carefully monitor how President Obama’s words were transmitted to China’s public, even in a newspaper known for its press-the-envelope approach.
Secret scholarships to study in China that were awarded to the offspring of top officials in Namibia have angered the public there.
The de facto leader, Roberto Micheletti, and the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, continued their political jockeying ahead of presidential elections on Nov. 29.
Prior to a climate change meeting scheduled for Copenhagen, industrialized countries, except the United States, are offering targets to curb greenhouse gases.
A Moscow Patriarchate official called the Rev. Daniil Sysoyev a “talented missionary” whose work among Muslims, including Tatars, might have been the motive for the shooting.
An aide to the Russian president called Ukraine’s warnings of a possible gas crisis “political blackmail” on Thursday.
Notes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areas of conflict in the post-9/11 era.
Emma Sky, a Briton, initially opposed the war but now has a place in Gen. Ray Odierno’s inner circle.
The country is modernizing rapidly, sometimes too fast, but this spectacular old region endures, evoking rulers with giant mustaches and spectacular forts and palaces.
The role thrusts Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton into the thick of a critical international problem.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has given a university $10 billion, hoping it will draw ideas and students.
Stephen Crowley of The Times has found that just one frame is not enough to convey the cascading incongruities and harmonies of a presidential tour.
Kerala, India, is in the grips of an acute labor shortage that threatens to undermine one of its most important industries.
Climate change may deal the fatal blow to an animal that has lived in the Pacific for 150 million years.
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