World
Mystery of the 20 missing men in Mexico
MEXICO CITY — It is one of the more puzzling episodes in a drug war heaped with unsolved cases: 20 Mexican men travel to Acapulco together and are kidnapped en masse as soon as they arrive...
Israel under fire for its use of targeted killings
JERUSALEM — When Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman faced questions Monday from European diplomats over Israel's suspected role in the Dubai assassination of a Hamas militant, he responded with familiar indignation: Why is Israel always the first to be ...
Death toll in Philippine floods climbs to nearly 1,500
MANILA — The death toll from floods in the southern...
At least 475 escape Afghanistan prison
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 475 inmates, many of them Islamic insurgents, escaped overnight from the main prison in the southern city of Kandahar, the spiritual home of the Taliban movement, authorities said...
Questions remain about U.S. military presence in Haiti
WASHINGTON — As the number of U.S. soldiers in Haiti...
Massive Baghdad bombing casts doubt on Iraqi security, elections
BAGHDAD — Suicide bombers in cars packed with explosives killed at least 132 people and wounded 600 more outside Iraqi government buildings Sunday morning in nearly simultaneous blasts that were powerful even by Baghdad's...
Libya rebels, Gadhafi regime hold indirect talks
BEIRUT — Indirect talks on the future of Libya have...
Taliban who downed SEALs’ helicopter are killed, officials say
KABUL, Afghanistan — An American airstrike killed the...
Mullen rebukes China for failing to curb North Korea
SEOUL and BEIJING — The most senior U.S. military official delivered a sharp rebuke to China on Wednesday, blaming Asia's top power for failing to rein in its North Korean ally in the escalating dispute over the fate of the Korean peninsula...
