Couple Tried in Qatar Feared Further Delays After Acquittal
By RICK GLADSTONE
Matthew and Grace Huang of Los Angeles faced a two-year legal struggle after the death of their adopted daughter.
Matthew and Grace Huang of Los Angeles faced a two-year legal struggle after the death of their adopted daughter.
Jurf al-Sakhar was recaptured from the Islamic State, but now Shiite-dominated forces say Sunnis cannot return to their homes for at least eight months.
Secretary of State John Kerry warned Senator Dianne Feinstein that the release of the long-delayed review could ignite unrest in the Middle East and endanger hostages.
The British Museum plunged itself into a geopolitical tempest with the loan of one of the famous Elgin marbles of Greece to the Hermitage.
The former head of the domestic security apparatus is the first member of the Politburo Standing Committee, retired or active, to face a criminal corruption inquiry.
The decision to end the case appeared to represent both a triumph for President Uhuru Kenyatta and a display of the difficulties involved in prosecuting leaders.
With speeches and celebrations, the country held a day of remembrance, seeking to rediscover the message of its moral touchstone.
The arrest of a journalist who has reported on the business dealings of the president’s family was a further indication of Azerbaijan’s deteriorating relations with the West.
Local militants have claimed responsibility for an attack that killed 14 policemen and at least one civilian, easing concerns that the Islamic State had been involved.
The case has provoked a debate over how to handle returning jihadists without discouraging their families from cooperating with the authorities.
The explosions, one by a suicide bomber and the other a car bomb, occurred by a restaurant in Baidoa, south of Mogadishu, that is popular journalists and government officials.
The 10 children were receiving regular transfusions to treat a blood disease called thalassemia.
Under a deal negotiated with the United States, France is expected to pay $60 million to survivors for using its national railway for deportations during World War II.
Twenty people died in three episodes on Friday, just days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India is to address an election rally in the region.
The decision comes after a global outcry against programs like Prism, which have given spy agencies almost unfettered access to Internet communications.
The International Olympic Committee will meet in special session next week in Monaco to vote on 40 proposals that address issues like Olympic bidding and white elephant venues.
Alberto Cairo runs seven orthopedic centers in Afghanistan for the International Committee of the Red Cross, and he could not feel more useful.
The deal to sell the ships, designed to transport troops, tanks and helicopters, ran into opposition after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in March.
Officials in Bosnia and neighboring Serbia cooperated to make the arrests in the torture and murder of about 20 people at a remote Bosnian rail depot.
Joshua Wong, the student leader whose early calls to protest help set off a monthslong confrontation, says he knows his hunger strike is aimed at achieving “the impossible.”
King Bhumibol Adulyadej is a unifying figure in a divided country, but he has spent much of the past few years hospitalized with a variety of ailments.
Some areas that were devastated by Typhoon Haiyan last year were preparing Friday for another powerful storm, though it was not expected to have Haiyan’s destructive power.
What snobs really think about the little gits and plebs.
In the Netherlands, Black Pete is meant to be dark with chimney soot, but he looks like the caricature of a slave.
A television star’s gentle comedy became an icon for the Hispanic middle class.
A Senegalese has recreated portraits made centuries ago of Africans who lived in Europe and were commemorated in now-forgotten Western art.
Explore The Times investigation on secret casualties of Iraq’s abandoned chemical weapons, and the Pentagon’s response, including follow-up care for those exposed.
Raed Fares, a Syrian activist whose video protests skewer ISIS and President Bashar al-Assad alike, is dodging the threat of death from both sides.