Sunday, March 30, 2014 - Last Update:
After Vitali Klitschko dropped out of the presidential race, the nation’s hopes and those of its Western supporters are now with Petro Olekseyevich Poroshenko, the billionaire owner of a chocolate candy company.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov, who will meet with Secretary of State John Kerry, said the two sides were narrowing their differences in an attempt to resolve the standoff peacefully.
The international search effort for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet intensified on Sunday with nine planes conducting surveillance above the latest search area while the flotilla of naval vessels scouring the zone continued to grow, the Australian authorities said.
The North did not elaborate, but Western analysts have long suspected that it is trying to make nuclear devices that could be delivered by intercontinental ballistic missiles.
While a night out at the theater used to be a staple for cultured American men, fewer shows on Broadway are grabbing them these days.
Industrial coal mines of Lower Silesia, Poland, closed in the late 1990s, but the mining has continued in a more secret and dangerous form.
Demonized as terrorists by Israelis and lionized as freedom fighters by Palestinians, prisoners like Muqdad Salah have become a flash point in the troubled peace talks.
Many international election monitors curtailed their activities or made plans to evacuate their foreign employees, potentially raising serious questions about the election’s validity.
Pitcher Masahiro Tanaka, the Yankees’ $155 million import from Japan, grew up in a nation where joining a baseball team was like entering a religious order.
The chief executive of the World Travel and Tourism Council talks about everything from growth in China to the state of the travel industry.
Almost 20 years after the rock legend’s death, visiting spots where he lived, and where he endures today.
