President Bashar al-Assad, right, on Monday with Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations envoy.
President Bashar al-Assad’s meeting with a United Nations envoy on Monday raised questions about how the Syrian leader will choose to respond to mounting pressure to step down.
Speaking from the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for religious freedom in China and peace for the “defenseless” in Syria in his annual Christmas Day message.
President Jacob Zuma gave a largely upbeat assessment on Tuesday of the health of Nelson Mandela, the nation’s first black president, who has been hospitalized for a lung infection and gallstones.
The move comes after years of civil disobedience by a group called Women of the Wall against rules that support gender division at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, one of Judaism’s holiest sites.
The envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said he presented President Bashar al-Assad of Syria with “steps” to end the war, while Russia accelerated efforts to evacuate its diplomats and other expatriates.
A woman identified as an Afghan police officer fatally shot the American, a police trainer with DynCorp International, Afghan officials said.
A man who was angry over a court ruling in the case of his daughter’s murder used his car to run down a group of high school students in northern China.
Online video chats and packages sent to and from home help Americans at a base in Kabul overcome their isolation at Christmas.
Aides to President Hugo Chávez, who is recuperating from cancer surgery in Cuba, say they will push back the inauguration scheduled for Jan. 10 if he is too ill to return to Venezuela.
The prosecutor’s turnabout came as the Russian government was moving to retaliate against the United States for adopting a human rights law named for Sergei L. Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in prison.
A flood of applicants for examinations to fill teaching positions said as much about Italy’s dim job prospects as it did about the rigidities of its public education system.
The deal that halted fighting between Israel and Hamas allows fishermen to go six nautical miles out to sea, instead of three, but arrests by Israeli patrols are still possible.
Kuwait’s emir said a recent shutdown at an Iranian nuclear plant indicated that Tehran needed to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency to allay Gulf Arab concerns.
Recent violence targeting vaccination campaigns threatens the effort to eradicate polio in the three countries where it remains endemic.
Pope Benedict XVI expressed concern for the place of faith in people’s busy lives, prayed for peace in the Middle East and called for an end to violence in Syria.
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An analysis of recovery aid money helps explain why such a seeming bounty is not more palpable.
Jodi Rudoren, The Times’s Jerusalem bureau chief, reports on Jewish women fighting against Orthodox restrictions on how and where they can pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
The New York Times correspondent C.J. Chivers reports from Maraa, Syria, on the government’s use of cluster munitions against civilians in what appears to be collective punishment.
Dozens of civilians were killed Sunday when a Syrian air strike hit a breadline in the town of Halfaya, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Senator John Kerry, nominated by President Barack Obama to be the next U.S. secretary of state, is considered a formidable player by both Republicans and Democrats.
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