PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Islamist militants ambushed a convoy of Pakistani troops traveling close to the Afghan border on Monday, killing 11 of them in an unusually bloody attack, a government official said. The dead included a colonel and a captain in the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary unit that is being trained by a small contingent [...]
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian President Bashar Assad wavered between cracking down and compromising Monday in one of the Middle East’s most authoritarian and anti-Western nations as thousands of protesters in a southern city defied security forces who fired tear gas to disperse them. The unrest in Syria, a strategically important country of 23 million people, [...]
INDIANAPOLIS — The leader of Indiana’s House Republicans says Democrats plan to return to the Statehouse on Monday after a nearly six-week boycott over Republican-backed bills. House Majority Leader Brian Bosma said Monday that he had been informed Democrats were ready to return to the Statehouse. Most House Democrats fled to Illinois on Feb. 22 [...]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Monday that students should take fewer standardized tests and school performance should be measured in other ways. Too much testing makes education boring for kids, he said. “Too often what we have been doing is using these tests to punish students,†the president told students and parents at a [...]
CAIRO — Egypt’s military rulers announced Monday that the country’s hated emergency laws will be lifted before parliament elections set for September, the latest move to ease harsh restrictions under the ousted regime of President Hosni Mubarak. The laws have been in place since 1981, when Mubarak took power. They give police near-unlimited powers of [...]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Just before sunset Monday, a French skyscraper climber who calls himself “Spiderman†started to pull his way up the side of the world’s tallest tower in Dubai. Before he began his climb up the 2,717 foot-tall (828 meter) Burj Khalifa, Alain Robert said he expected the climb to take about [...]
TOKYO — Power company officials say plutonium has been detected in the soil outside of the stricken Japanese nuclear complex. Tokyo Electric Power Co. says in a statement that the plutonium was discovered Monday in five locations around the plant, which has been leaking radiation for nearly two weeks. TEPCO official Jun Tsuruoka says the [...]
NAPLES, Italy — NATO’s commander for Libya deflected suggestions Monday that international airstrikes against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces were essentially providing air cover for advancing rebels, insisting that the military alliance’s mission is purely designed to protect civilians. Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard of Canada told a press conference that the alliance was in the process of [...]
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian security forces fired tear gas on thousands of protesters Monday in a restive southern city as President Bashar Assad faced down the most serious threat to his family’s four decades of authoritarian rule. Assad was expected to address the nation as early as Tuesday to try to ease the crisis by [...]
GENEVA — President Shimon Peres of Israel says popular revolutions in the Middle East could give his country better neighbors, if Arab states become more democratic and prosperous. Peres says poverty and oppression in the region have fed resentment against Israel and “the better our neighbors will have it, we shall have better neighbors.†He [...]
LONDON — Scotland Yard is bracing for all types of security threats to the royal wedding — threats that range from terrorists and anarchists to anti-monarchists and other protesters. The declaration Monday came after rogue groups disrupted a peaceful demonstration Saturday against Britain’s harshest spending cuts since World War II. About 250,000 protesters flooded London, [...]
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Forces loyal to Ivory Coast’s internationally recognized president claimed Monday to have seized a major city, an event that could mark the beginning of military operations in the West African country that has teetered for months on the brink of civil war. The area along the Liberian border has seen limited [...]
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