World Oct 28 Islamist Party Wins Tunisian Elections Supporters of Tunisia's Islamist Ennahda party celebrate in Tunis after results came out Tuesday showing the party had taken the lead. Photo by Fethi Belaid/AFP/Getty Images. This post was updated at 10:55 a.m. ET Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda won…
Economy Oct 27 European Leaders Reach Debt Deal, Greek Debtholders Take 50% Loss Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou speaks Thursday at a press conference after a eurozone summit at EU headquarters in Brussels. Photo by Georges Gobet/AFP/Getty Images. At an emergency summit in Brussels, European leaders reached a debt crisis deal in which…
World Oct 26 EU Leaders Meet to Tackle Debt Crisis German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, in Berlin on Wednesday. Photo by Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images. 12:30 p.m. ET | Germany's parliament has passed Merkel's measure, boosting a bailout fund for the eurozone as…
World Oct 25 Gadhafi Buried in Undisclosed Desert Location A Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) fighter stands guard on October 25, 2011 outside the door leading into a market freezer in Misrata where Gadhafi's body had been on display. Photo by Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images. Libyan officials say the body…
World Oct 24 Many Still Trapped After 7.2-Magnitude Quake in Turkey A 16-year-old earthquake survivor is carried by rescue workers from a collapsed building in the Ercis province of Van, in eastern Turkey, on Monday. Photo by Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images. A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey Sunday killing at least 270…
World Oct 21 NATO: Mission in Libya to End October 31 4:15 p.m.ET | NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said NATO officials had agreed Friday to wind down their mission in Libya at the end of the month, a decision that will be formalized next week. Rasmussen said the seven-month…
World Oct 20 Live Updates: Moammar Gadhafi Killed in Sirte Warning: This post contains graphic imagery. 6 p.m. ET | Interim Libyan government officials said Gadhafi's son and former national security adviser Muatassim was killed in Sirte, and another son, Seif al-Islam, was wounded and in a hospital. 5:22 p.m.
World Oct 19 Turkish Forces Pursue Insurgents Near Iraq Border Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses journalists during a press conference in Ankara on Wednesday, hours after Kurdish rebels killed 24 Turkish soldiers. Photo by Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images. Updated at 11:20 a.m. ET with statement from President Obama: Turkish…
World Oct 18 Israeli Soldier Freed After Five Years in Prisoner Swap In this handout photo provided by the Israeli Defense Force, freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit walks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Tel Nof Airbase on Tuesday. Photo by IDF via Getty Images. After being held for more than…
World Oct 14 U.S. Assists with Hunt for Lord’s Resistance Army Leader File photo of Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony taken on Nov. 12, 2006. Photo by Stuart Price/AFP/Getty Images. President Obama is sending 100 military advisers to Uganda to help with the search for notorious leader Joseph Kony and…