Retaliation for attacks
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with nearly 200 airstrikes early Saturday, the military said, widening a blist...
Smoke rises today following an Israeli attack on Gaza City. Israel barraged the Gaza Strip with airstrikes and shelling Wednesday and killed the Hamas military chief in ...
Switch comes while public demands reform
BEIJING — Xi Jinping succeeded Hu Jintao as China’s leader today, assuming the top posts in the Communist Party and the powerful ...
LONDON — Britain’s media are in a meltdown and its government is gaffe-prone, so Oxford Dictionaries has chosen an apt Word of the Year: “omnishambles.”
Oxford Universit...
HONG KONG — A luxury Hong Kong apartment in a Frank Gehry-designed building has sold for an eye-popping price of nearly $60 million, the property developer said today, t...
LONDON — A gripping account of a doomed attempt to climb Mount Everest has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize.
“Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the...
WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks after his re-election, President Barack Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit the once pariah nation of Myanmar, drawing a...
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are working on a set of new and unprecedented Iran sanctions that could prevent the Islamic republic from doing business with most of the world un...
Uprising now in 19th month
BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed to “live and die” in Syria, saying in an interview broadcast today that he will never flee his cou...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Roadside bombs and a suicide bomber killed 20 people in a spate of attacks across Afghanistan today, officials said.
The deaths came even as armed c...
