|  |
NYT > World
1 - Death Toll Is Said to Rise in Syrian City of Homs
2 - Damascus Avoids Syrian Uprising’s Blood, but Not Pain
3 - Waiting in the Wings, a Survivor of Three Decades of Syrian Politics
4 - As Clashes Continue, Egypt Soccer Riot Becomes Metaphor for Government Failure
5 - Cold Weather Kills Children in Afghan Refugee Camps
6 - Obama Got Letter on Talks, Maybe From Taliban Leader
7 - Afghanistan Civilian Deaths Hit Record, U.N. Says
8 - Tens of Thousands Protest in Moscow, Russia
9 - Panetta and Clinton Seek to Reassure Europe on Troops
10 - Nuclear Inspection Visit to Iran Deemed a Failure
11 - F.B.I. Admits Hacker Group’s Eavesdropping
12 - Greek Premier Is Tested in Impasse Over Pay Cuts
13 - Putin Aide Says Foreign Hands Are Behind Protests
14 - Tempers Rise Over Gas Supply to West From Russia
15 - Chris Huhne Resignation in Britain Shakes Cameron’s Coalition
16 - In Beijing, Razing of Historic House Stirs Outrage
17 - In Myanmar, Karen Rebels Deny Signing a Cease-Fire
18 - Looking Forward, Fiji Turns to Its Canoeing Past
19 - U.N. Says Somalia Famine Has Ended, but Crisis Isn’t Over
20 - More Than 100 Missing in Papua New Guinea Ferry Sinking
21 - Nepal Releases Thousands of Former Maoist Fighters
22 - Two American Tourists Kidnapped in Egypt, Officials Say
23 - Hungary’s Malev Airline Halts Flights
24 - E.U. Presses Google to Delay Privacy Policy Changes
25 - World Briefing | Middle East: Kuwait: Opposition Wins Parliament
26 - World Briefing | Europe: U.N. Court Upholds German Immunity From Suits by Victims of Nazi Atrocities
27 - In Homs, Syrian Forces Are Said to Have Killed Hundreds
28 - World Briefing | The Americas: Ecuador: Chevron Will Not Apologize for Pollution, Even to Save $8.5 Billion
29 - World Briefing | Africa: South Sudan: Violence at Peace Meeting
30 - World Briefing | Africa: Sudan: U.S.-Built Bible School Bombed
31 - World Briefing | Africa: Kenya Says It Killed 100 Somali Rebels
32 - The Saturday Profile: Sergei Kolesnikov Aims to Expose Corruption of Putin Era
33 - Frigid Temperatures Claim Lives of Children in Kabul
34 - Protesters Continue to Clash With Police
35 - WORLD: Egyptians Mourn
36 - Lens Blog: Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny
37 - At War Blog: Name the Cluster Bomb, an Update
38 - At War Blog: Coverage Roundup: Afghanistan and Pakistan
39 - At War Blog: Can You Name This Cluster Bomb?
40 - The Lede Blog: Scenes of Violence in Syria Ahead of U.N. Vote
41 - The Lede Blog: Activists Document Street Battles in Cairo
42 - The Lede Blog: Calls to Execute Egypt's Military Ruler Echo on Cairo's Streets
43 - India Ink: Newswallah: Bharat Edition
44 - India Ink: Newswallah: Bollywood Edition
45 - India Ink: Image of the Day: February 3
46 - Op-Ed Contributors: Can Egypt Avoid Pakistan’s Fate?
47 - Editorial: Trading Threats With Iran
48 - The Hard Way Out of Afghanistan
49 - Way of the World: As Jobs Go Global, U.S. Workers Pay
Activists said the death toll climbed to 260 in an attack Saturday on Homs, a claim the Syrian government flatly denied ahead of a meeting scheduled for Saturday at the United Nations Security Council.
Life is growing harder in the Syrian capital, President Bashar al-Assad’s stronghold, as residents complain about electricity rationing, shortages of food and gas, and soaring prices.
Farouk al-Shara, 74, vice president and loyal disciple of President Bashar al-Assad, would almost certainly become temporary president under an Arab League peace proposal.
Five people were killed on the second day of clashes between protesters and the police as demonstrators questioned the ruling military council’s ability to run the country.
In the past month, at least 22 Afghan children under the age of 5 have frozen to death in refugee camps in Kabul, prompting deep concerns among aid workers.
The unsigned letter purporting to be from Mullah Muhammad Omar was sent last year and also pressed the president to release Taliban prisoners.
The majority of civilians died at the hands of the Taliban and other insurgents whose use of homemade bombs was more prevalent and whose suicide bombers killed more each time.
Tens of thousands marched on Saturday through a city gripped by bitter cold, in a third major effort by Russians opposed to Vladimir V. Putin’s return to the presidency.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reassure Europe on Saturday that the United States was not abandoning its partners across the Atlantic.
The assessment came as Iran’s supreme leader lashed out at the United States, vowing to retaliate against oil sanctions and threats of military action.
The group known as Anonymous listened in on a call between the bureau, Scotland Yard and other foreign police agencies about their joint investigation of the group and its allies.
Prime Minister Lucas Papademos faces a deadlock over proposed demands by Greece’s foreign lenders to reduce private-sector wages in exchange for aid the country needs to prevent default.
The aide, Dmitri S. Peskov, said that Russian intelligence services previously reported plans for the outbreak of protests, implying that a blueprint for unrest was drawn up in Washington.
Low supplies in Western Europe have caused tension to the east during an especially frigid winter.
Chris Huhne, the energy and climate chief, is accused of perverting the course of justice in a 2003 speeding case.
The demolition of a historic house in the imperial city, once home to famous architects who championed preservation, was a cruel blow to Chinese conservationists.
The defiant stance of the rebels’ leadership appears to be a significant setback for the government’s efforts to end ethnic and civil conflicts that have divided the country for decades.
The traditional canoe is at the center of several projects aimed at reducing Fiji’s energy consumption, providing cheaper transport, keeping local traditions alive and giving a boost to tourism.
A bumper harvest and a surge in emergency food aid have ended a famine in Somalia that killed tens of thousands of people, the United Nations said on Friday.
Hampered by poor weather, rescue workers pressed their search on Friday off the coast of Papua New Guinea for survivors of a ferry that sank the day before.
The fate of the Maoist fighters, who had been living in encampments under guard for the past six years, has been a key sticking point in Nepal’s still incomplete peace process.
Gunmen stormed a bus in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Friday, kidnapping two American tourists and an Egyptian tour guide, Egyptian officials said.
The money-losing airline was placed under control of a bankruptcy trustee, prompting creditors to begin seizing its planes outside the country.
Viviane Reding, the European Union justice commissioner, is pressing Google to halt changes to its privacy policies while the implications for personal data protection are being explored.
The Islamist-led opposition won control of Parliament in a snap election, according to results on Friday.
The United Nations’ highest court confirmed on Friday that Germany has legal immunity from being sued in foreign courts by victims of Nazi atrocities.
The reports could not be independently confirmed, but the attacks Friday night in Homs appeared to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, opposition activists said.
Chevron said Friday that it had no intention of apologizing for the environmental damage to the Amazon rain forest for which an Ecuadorean court ruled it responsible.
More than 10 people were killed and a United Nations employee was shot and wounded when clashes broke out at a peace meeting in South Sudan, United Nations officials said Friday.
Sudan’s military bombed a Bible school built by an American Christian group in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan State.
The Kenyan military said Friday that it had killed an estimated 100 Somali militants when helicopter gunships attacked a gathering of more than 200 rebel fighters near Badhade.
Sergei Kolesnikov became a prosperous businessman and part of the crony capitalist web surrounding Vladimir V. Putin. Now he is waging a risky campaign to expose corruption.
At least 22 children have died in camps in Kabul in the past month, including 14 at the Nasaji Bagrami camp.
Rock-throwing protesters fought riot police officers through clouds of tear gas near Egypt’s Interior Ministry, on a second day of clashes triggered by the deaths at a soccer riot in Port Said.
February 2, 2012 — Egyptians begin three days of national grieving after a deadly soccer brawl.
As Guatemala brings genocide charges against a former military leader, Jean-Marie Simon prepares to reissue her seminal book of photographs from that country's bloodiest era.
After a day of comments from readers via e-mail, Twitter and Facebook, questions still remain about cluster bombs in Libya. Who made the dual purpose improved conventional munition bombs, when and where?
Leon E. Panetta announced a date for the end of the American combat role in Afghanistan; NATO played down a leaked internal report on collaboration between the Afghan government, the Taliban and Pakistan; Pakistan revealed an anthrax plot; and a NATO solider was killed by a man in an Afghan Army uniform.
At War journeys into crowd-sourcing to ask for readers' help identifying a weapon found on the battlefields of Libya last year.
Activists say at least 200 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in the Syrian city of Homs amid a barrage of mortar shells and heavy machine gun fire that began Friday night.
Amid reports that the Egyptian police, firing tear gas, birdshot and live ammunition, killed at least four demonstrators on Friday, bloggers filed a series of vivid reports.
Fans of one of Cairo's leading soccer teams took to the streets on Thursday, blaming Egypt's military ruler for a security failure that allowed hooligans from a rival club to attack and kill at least 73 people at a game the night before.
Top stories from across India this week from the regional press.
Weekly round-up of news from the Bollywood industry.
Passenger train derailed following an accident in northeast India.
As the military concentrates power in its own hands, Egypt is starting to look disturbingly like Pakistan.
Tehran’s nuclear ambitions are real and dangerous, but a military attack would backfire. Tough sanctions and a united diplomatic front are best.
Winding down the war means pushing deeper into Taliban country every day.
Globalization is working -- the world overall is getting richer. But a lot of the costs of that transition are being borne by specific groups of workers in the developed West.
|
|  |
|
|
