Sanaa, Yemen – After four months of widespread anti-government demonstrations, numerous defections of high-ranking officials and mounting pressure from powerful tribes, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh appears to…
News
Sydney – Germany will close down all of its nuclear power plants by 2022, according to reports out Monday, as fallout from Japan’s disaster continues more than two…
Protesters in Calaca, Batangas Philippines with banners reading “NO to Calaca Coal Power Plant!” (Photo: 350.org) In the United States and Europe, the triple whammy of…
Last Monday, May 23rd, Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board (GAB), the state's top election agency, officially certified [PDF] the controversial results of the extraordinarily close April 5th statewide Supreme…
The field of battle expanded again in Yemen on Tuesday as a cease-fire between government forces and opposition tribesmen in the capital broke down, renewing fears that the…
The United States pulled its human rights officer from Bahrain last week after he'd become the subject of a weeks-long campaign of ethnic slurs and thinly veiled threats…
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday nominated Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the Army chief, to help steer the American armed forces through the three present conflicts in Muslim…
For at least three years, counterterrorism agents monitored the comings and goings at Scott Crow's home in Austin, Tex. (Photo: Caleb Bryant Miller / The New York Times)…
KABUL, Afghanistan — The governor of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on Sunday accused U.S.-led forces of killing at least 14 civilians in a bombing raid called in…
WASHINGTON — Generations of children learned the basics of the American legislative process from a “Schoolhouse Rock” cartoon, in which “Bill” sings, “If he signs me, then I’ll…