Russia President Vladimir V. Putin complained on Friday that NATOwas not taking Russiaâ ™s legitimate security concerns into account, buthe also said that President Bush was listening to Moscowâ ™s criticismsof a planned missile defense system for Europe, which is
The U.S. economy shed 80,000 jobs in March, the third consecutive monthof rising unemployment, presenting a stark sign that the country mayalready be in a recession. Sharp downturns in themanufacturing and construction sectors led the decline, the biggest infive years.
Fresh ethnic violence has erupted in a Tibetan region ofsouthwestern China, with disputed reports of eight people shot dead bythe police, and the Chinese government on Friday vowed swift and severepunishment of Tibetans accused of rioting and taking part in
When Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki launched an offensive in Basra last week, he consulted only his inner circle of advisers. There wereno debates in parliament or among his political allies. Senior Americanofficials were notified only a few days before
Dampening speculation that Zinbabwe's strongman, President RobertMugabe, would step down after 28 years in power, the senior leadershipof thecountryâ ™s ruling party decided on Friday that he should contest arun-off with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai if neither one of themwins
The U.S. military says a B-1 bomber has crashed at an American Air Force base in the Middle East.A military official says that details are sketchy but initial reportsare that the bomber crashed in the nation of Qatar at al-Udeid
Two Islamic extremists from Germany may be planning attacks against targets in Afghanistan, investigators have warned. The men, who share connections to the Sauerland terror cell and suicide bomber Cüneyt Ciftci, are thought to have trained at terror camps in
President Robert Mugabe might soon face the end of his 28 years in power. Election results delayed for six days will determine whether he stays, goes or holds out for a runoff. That is, of course, if he agrees to
The dispute over a number of works of art in Vienna's Leopold collection that were stolen by the Nazis reveals the extent to which art institutions are trying to avoid returning looted art. Many museums and private collectors continue to
For seven years, a Polish charity has been collecting money for impoverished children under the slogan "give children wings." The drinks maker Red Bull thinks it copied the slogan -- and is taking the charity to court.
The international art scene is descending on Berlin on Saturday for the opening of the fifth Berlin Biennial. Paved rooms, smiling bats, and 'cultural interrogations,' this event has it all. And New York is watching.
Tourists walking between Berlin's Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag building can hardly miss Gustav Rust and his private memorial to the victims of the GDR. Behind the memorial, however, stands a man with a history of assaults and questionable far-right
The smiles in Bucharest were little more than show. Politically, the NATO summit was a fiasco. The Western alliance remains deeply divided and faces an identity crisis -- with Russian relations just one of the alliance's many points of dispute.
