WASHINGTON — After meeting with President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, President Obama said gains made by Afghan forces would allow the United States to accelerate the withdrawal of troops in coming months.
A group of researchers worked for six years to locate the source of rifle and machine-gun ammunition in war-torn regions. The manufacturer was not one of Africa’s usual suspects.
BAMAKO, Mali — France answered an urgent plea from the government of its former colony to help blunt an advance into the center of the country by Islamist extremist militants.
ATHENS — Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he hoped to raise 2.3 billion euros (about $3 billion) from a tax increase on middle- to high-income earners, businesses and self-employed professionals.
In “The World Until Yesterday,” Jared Diamond holds up tribal groups as a mirror for our lives and asks what they can teach us about parenting, elder care and conflict.
PARIS — Unions and the main employers’ lobby settled on new rules that would overhaul the rigid labor market.
From art in Rio to wine in China to food in Washington, D.C., here are dozens of reasons to escape and explore this year.
MEDAWARA KALAN, India — The woman whose brutal attack shocked India had been the hope of her family, and an example of social and economic mobility in a changing nation.
LONDON — Paul Emsley’s painting of the Duchess of Cambridge at the National Portrait Gallery in London is drawing complaints that it adds 20 years and 20 pounds to its subject.
PARIS — The brother of one of three Kurdish women found shot to death in Paris said he considered it a professional assassination aimed at derailing peace talks.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — At Spec’s Records and Tapes in Coral Gables, the music didn’t stop and neither did the memories.
“The military commanders will ALWAYS want to stay longer, will claim the Afghan forces are improving but not yet ready to take over,” writes Wally in Toronto.
“If Iran is to be held morally responsible for the weapons they produce and sell what should be done about the USA?,” writes WillT26.
Pictures of the Day
The remains of a landslide victim were removed from a Chinese village in the Yunnan Province.
When companies pollute with synthetic dyes, death follows.
Eat Caribbean cuisine and visit Victorian- era houses in New York.
Three murders in Paris mark the barriers to a Turkish -Kurdish settlement.
At the Consumer Electronics Show, many app-powered accessories are on display.
Op-Docs: ‘Death of a Prisoner’
President Obama still has not closed the prison at Guantánamo.
Pitti trade show draws buyers who want to "do as the Italians do."
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DealBook »Uncertainty Hangs Over Wall Street in 2013Big banks worked through more of their postcrisis hangovers but there’s little sign of a brighter future. |
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