Christian Science Monitor
Carlos Fuentes belonged to a generation of Latin American writers who were both literary and political, author and social commentator. Fuentes was a public intellectual. By Marjorie Miller, Associated Press / May 16, 2012 In this 1995 photo, ...
BBC News
By Allan Little BBC News, The Hague General Mladic gestured to the public gallery as the prosecution opened its case against him - a slow sarcastic handclap and a thumbs up toward the benches where victims of Bosnia's war had gathered to watch the ...
ABC News
US hopes of reopening Pakistan's supply routes for the Afghanistan war ahead of next week's NATO summit are going down to the wire. Washington is hopeful of an imminent deal. But Pakistan is insisting that the United States pay more to repair relations ...
Wall Street Journal
By WILLIAM HOROBIN PARIS—French Socialist President François Hollande appointed Pierre Moscovici finance minister, calling in a politician with intimate experience of the euro creation to tackle the deepening crisis threatening the common currency.
Seattle Post Intelligencer
ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY, AP, ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press In this image made from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed Tuesday, May 15, 2012, purports to show Syrians running from gun shots in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib, Syria.
Reuters
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis | AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that countries trying to "sow chaos" in Syria could be infected with it themselves, an apparent warning to Arab Gulf nations that back the insurgency aimed at ...
Voice of America
Russian protesters, evicted from a camp at Chistiye Prudy, at their newly chosen downtown site, Moscow, May 16, 2012. MOSCOW - Police dispersed opposition activists camping out in a park in central Moscow Wednesday, acting on a court order issued a day ...
Voice of America
Indonesian soldiers carry a victim of Wednesday's plane crash at Cijeruk in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Saturday, May 12, 2012. Indonesian soldiers carry a victim of Wednesday's plane crash at Cijeruk in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Saturday, May 12, ...