World Apr 05 Kazakhstani President Wins Big, But Vote Raises Questions The president of Kazakhstan, who has been in office since the Soviet era, recently won re-election by a reported 95.5 percent of the vote. Critics say the election was not without flaws.
World Apr 04 Yemen on the Edge: A Primer in 8 Must-Reads Protests continue to rile Yemen, one of the nations in the Middle East rattled by the revolts sweeping the region. Observers of the region say Yemen has become a haven for the al-Qaeda off-shoot known as al-Qaeda in the…
World Apr 04 Japan to Release Radioactive Water into Pacific Ocean in Effort to Cool Reactors Photo byTokyo Electric Power Co. Workers at the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant are using a dye substance in an effort to trace the source of a leak spreading radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean and hampering efforts to…
World Apr 04 Libyan Rebels Advance Toward Brega, Gadhafi Envoy in Europe Rebel fighters stand at the entrance of the university of the key old port of Brega on their way to battle against loyalist troops on April 4, 2011. (Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images) Rebel forces took parts of strategic oil port city…
World Apr 01 Libya Opposition Says It Would Agree to Conditional Cease-fire Libyan rebels sit at the back of a pick-up truck before leaving Ajdabiya to the front line near the oil town of Brega on Friday. Photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images. After weeks of gains and setbacks in cities from Benghazi…
World Mar 31 CIA Operatives Working in Libya; NATO Assumes Leadership; Immunity Not Offered to Foreign Minister Libyan anti-Gadhafi fighters wave the flag of the rebellion as they gather some 30 kilometers before the eastern town of Brega on March 31, 2011. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images) 5:30 p.m. ET | In an address on Libyan state television, Moammar…
World Mar 31 Fighters in Ivory Coast Push Into Abidjan Members of Pro-Ouattara forces hold their weapons on March 29 in Duekoue in western Ivory Coast. (Zoom Dosso/AFP/Getty Images) Forces loyal to democratically elected president Alassane Ouattara are pressing into Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, in a bid to wrest…
World Mar 30 Four Reactors to Be Decomissioned, Seawater Radiation Levels Rise Tokyo Electric Power Company has said four of the six reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant cannot be fixed and will be decommissioned as efforts to contain the spread of radioactive water continue at the facility. Meantime, seawater…
World Mar 29 Japan in ‘Maximum Alert’ as It Struggles to Contain Nuclear Crisis Photo by Tokyo Electric Power Company Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said his government was "in a state of maximum alert" as the crisis at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant continues to spread, with radioactive contamination in the air, soil…
World Mar 28 Explosion at Yemen Arms Factory Kills at Least 78; Suicide Bombers Strike Afghan Construction Company Yemenis lined up bodies after a massive blast killed at least 75 people at an ammunition plant in southern Yemen looted by al-Qaida on March 28. (AFP/Getty Images) In Jaar, Yemen, several massive explosions at an ammunition factory killed…