Obama Seeks to Push Myanmar Back on the Path Toward Democracy
By MARK LANDLER and THOMAS FULLER
President Obama warned the leaders that they need to improve the political system and stop systematic persecution of the Muslim minority.
President Obama warned the leaders that they need to improve the political system and stop systematic persecution of the Muslim minority.
Talks on the trade deal reached an impasse in July when India said it would veto it unless a dispute over its food security program was resolved.
The blasts were said to be a backlash against the two countries for their role in a regional proxy war, and officials said no one was injured.
As the rate of new infections has slowed, American and Liberian officials are debating whether to shift money that was planned for the centers into other programs to combat future outbreaks.
President Obama’s top military adviser said he would consider deploying a limited number of American forces to fight alongside Iraqi troops moving to retake areas held by militants.
Residents are angry at the Americans because food and fuel prices have soared, power blackouts have prevailed, and order is now threatened by a power vacuum.
The move could seriously undermine more than two decades of cooperation aimed at ensuring that nuclear bomb components on Russian soil do not fall into the hands of terrorists or a rogue state.
The United States Embassy called the attack “appalling,” and the Turkish authorities arrested 12 people, saying such behavior was “in no way tolerable.”
The Roman Catholic Church’s claim on the region is lessening as a younger generation turns to Protestantism, a Pew study found.
Efforts to save the pirarucu, one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, have been a success while offering a strategy for fending off a broader freshwater extinction crisis.
The convoy belonging to the American-led coalition forces was attacked twice by suicide bombers, officials said, but suffered no casualties.
Takehiko Nakao, president of the Asian Development Bank, explains how the Group of 20, which is meeting in Australia this weekend, can bolster economies and fight corruption.
Leaders will gather in Australia this weekend, but their interactions are likely to be strained by events in Ukraine, territorial disputes in Asia and war in the Middle East.
For more than a decade, China and its neighbors have seemingly lived by a tacit agreement: Trade more, play down disputes and enjoy the rising wealth. But wariness and fragility are setting in.
An audiotape posted online said to contain the voice of the Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, appears to be the first indication that he was not killed in an airstrike last weekend.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said she would not extend the state of emergency, which had angered critics.
The attacks came despite a large-scale military campaign in the area to root out jihadist groups after the massacre of 31 soldiers last month.
The decree enabling the president to deport non-Egyptians convicted of crimes could aid an imprisoned journalist, Peter Greste.
People who took part in a sterilization drive in the state of Chhattisgarh that led to 13 deaths described an assembly-line atmosphere with little regard for hygiene.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, appeared to state as policy something long hinted: a link between unfavorable news coverage and denials of reporters’ visas.
Warrants were issued for the opposition leaders Imran Khan and Muhammad Tahir-ul Qadri for their part in leading a protest movement.
Talking politics with a foreigner in a cafe in Cairo now strikes some Egyptians as grounds for arrest.
The Chinese president’s idiom appeared to warn foreign journalists that if they want to avoid visa difficulties, it is up to them to satisfy Beijing.
Pending legislation may deny justice to innocent Colombians killed by a military obsessed with body counts.
The law enforcement system cannot properly investigate atrocities or rein in corruption and abuse.
The U.S. shouldn’t pull out of Afghanistan too quickly. It also shouldn’t overlook the potential for a political deal.
After covering the fall of the Taliban, Zohreh Soleimani returned to Afghanistan to examine the lives of women in prison.