Dozens Killed by Car Bomb Blast at Afghan Hospital
By RAY RIVERA
KABUL, Afghanistan — The explosion destroyed the hospital in Logar province and killed women and children in an attack Afghan officials said “has no precedent.”
KABUL, Afghanistan — The explosion destroyed the hospital in Logar province and killed women and children in an attack Afghan officials said “has no precedent.”
ALBANY — The law will take effect in 30 days, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed and giving the gay-rights movement new momentum.
ROGEBAN, Libya — The rebels are arming guerrillas in Tripoli, disrupting supply routes and making plans to secure the city in the event of the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
COPENHAGEN — Denmark is part of a trend in which far-right parties, like the Danish People’s Party, headquartered above, are fighting the euro zone and free trade across open borders.
MADRID — Over the last two decades, Spain built transportation networks at a rate that few other European countries approached, but not all projects were well thought out.
BILIN, West Bank — For six years, nonviolent protesters marched to reclaim their land divided by Israel’s West Bank barrier. About 150 acres were returned.
SHIKA, Japan — Japan’s nuclear establishment has devoted vast resources to persuade the public of the safety and necessity of nuclear power.
WASHINGTON — The bond between president and vice president has developed, from friendly rivals to a closer partnership.
BRUSSELS — The French president said that criticism of the European effort in Libya leveled by Robert M. Gates represented an “unfair statement” that “doesn’t even correspond to any kind of truth.”
WASHINGTON — The House dealt a symbolic blow to President Obama by rejecting a bill to authorize the operations in Libya, but also turned back a measure that would have cut financing for the effort.
PARIS — A U.N. court sentenced Rwanda’s former minister for family and women’s affairs and her son to life prison terms for their roles in the 1994 genocide.
The founder of Blackwater Worldwide was dismissed from a civil lawsuit alleging that the company overbilled the government for protecting government employees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
MINOT, N.D. — As the floodwaters climbed to levels never before recorded in Minot, N.D., workers at the local zoo endeavored to evacuate the animals in the least chaotic way possible.
When The Times posted online a mystery Nazi photo album, it took just hours for readers to identify the photographer.
In his debut column for The Times, James B. Stewart writes about the Tyson Foods bribery case, in which no one at the company was charged despite its admission to making illegal payments to veterinarians in Mexico.
Mr. Falk had a diverse career in comedy and drama in film and onstage.
Instead of fighting the Palestinian quest for U.N. recognition as a state, the U.S. and E.U. can make it work for all sides.
Azerbaijan has freed Emin Milli from jail, but his punishment is not over.
For some, the president’s speech on Afghanistan troop withdrawal echoed unfortunate moments in history.
Many in China seem duty-bound to see the latest state propaganda film.
Conor Friedersdorf and Reihan Salam debate presidential power.
The movie is a broad comedy that threatens to get ugly and more or less succeeds on that threat.
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