MOSCOW — Kyrgyzstan’s incumbent president appeared Friday to have won a landslide victory in a contest that monitors said was marred by major violations of election laws.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is facing pressure to obey the supreme leader’s order to dismiss his top deputy.
HERAT, Afghanistan — Dr. Abdullah Abdullah is the one candidate who has a chance of forcing President Hamid Karzai into a runoff.
High-frequency trading may give traders using powerful computers an unfair advantage in the stock market, critics say.
For some Japanese men like Nisan, a relationship with a body-pillow girlfriend based on a comic-book character now takes the place of the real thing.
BANGKOK — Lawyers for the jailed pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi presented closing arguments Friday in a trial that could send her to prison for five years.
The testimony of Bryant Neal Vinas offered a rare window into the life and training of Al Qaeda recruits.
GAZA — Seven months after Israel’s military campaign against its rockets, Hamas has shifted its focus to cultural initiatives to gain support at home and abroad.
PARIS — A handful of intrepid aviators are gearing up to re-enact Louis Blériot’s crossing of the English Channel.
JAKARTA — President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won a landslide victory over his two opponents, capturing 61 percent of the votes and all but 5 of Indonesia’s 33 provinces.
CAMBRIDGE, England — In his memoir, kept secret for 25 years, Anthony Blunt expressed regrets about becoming a Soviet spy, but no apologies.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Zahra Rahnavard, the wife of Mir Hussein Moussavi, said the authorities had arrested her brother in an effort to intimidate her and her husband.
An international court redefined the borders of a disputed oil-rich region between north and south Sudan.
CARACAS, Venezuela — The plan, which would shift some operations to Palanquero, Apiay Air Base and Alberto Pouwels Air Base, is accentuating Colombia’s already tense relations with Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua.
SNELLVILLE, Ga. — Wanting to believe the president’s assurances, many couldn’t see how his health care plan would be paid for.
“We are being drowned in a sea of lies and exaggerations designed to distract us from ideas that could begin the process of fixing the health care problem,” writes sl in France.
“[A] nurse’s lifeblood is drained on the job. We do the best we can, and it never is enough,” writes Naomi.
In memoirs, Anthony Blunt said he regretted becoming a Soviet spy, but made no apologies.
William Safire on the meeting between Khrushchev and Nixon.
Perhaps no other president has been more attuned to, or done more to dominate, the news cycle he disparages.
Rappers are a great model for nations locked in high-stakes diplomacy.
The annual convention devoted an entire day to presenting films in 3-D.
The United States should follow the lead of nations that are far more serious about getting eligible voters on the rolls.
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