TOKYO — Images broadcast worldwide of Japan’s crippled nuclear complex and reports of food and water contaminated by radiation have battered its reputation as a safe des...
Government faces opposition
DARAA, Syria — New violence in a restive southern Syrian city killed as many as six people early today, making it the deadliest single day sin...
Rebels plague Yemeni leader
SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s parliament enacted sweeping emergency laws today after the country’s embattled president asked for new powers of arrest...
TOKYO — Japan’s government said the cost of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast could reach $309 billion, making it the world’s costliest natural di...
NATO to take over no-fly zone
AJDABIYA, Libya — International airstrikes forced Moammar Gadhafi’s forces to withdraw tanks that were besieging a rebel-held western city t...
FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Workers reconnected power lines to all six reactor units at Japan's radiation-leaking nuclear plant today, its operator said, marking a significant st...
RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan — Yukiko Yamaguchi wants to go home.
But like more than 400,000 others staying in shelters since a powerful tsunami plowed through their homes 10 da...
Official warns of long struggle
ZEITOUNIYA, Libya — The international military intervention in Libya is likely to last “awhile,” a top French official said today, echoing...
FUKUSHIMA, Japan — Japan said radiation levels in spinach and milk from farms near its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex exceeded government safety limits, as emergency t...
Warplane shot down over key rebel-held city
BENGHAZI, Libya — Moammar Gadhafi warned international forces they would “regret” intervening in Libya, and his troops attacke...
