by By NOOR KHAN and KATHY GANNON
13 Mar 2010 at 4:43pm
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland....

by By LARA JAKES
13 Mar 2010 at 4:44pm
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation....

by By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
13 Mar 2010 at 1:30pm
REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) -- This border city and others near the eastern end of the U.S. border escaped the worst of Mexico's bloody drug war for years, but now the bodies are piling up, several journalists are reportedly missing or dead and once-busy streets are empty after dark....

by By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
13 Mar 2010 at 2:06pm
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran said Saturday it has dismantled several U.S.-backed opposition networks that were gathering information on nuclear scientists and finding ways to circumvent controls on the Internet meant to deprive the opposition of its most crucial tool....

by By MICHAEL CASEY
13 Mar 2010 at 12:29pm
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- A contentious battle between Asia and the West over the fate of the Atlantic bluefin tuna prized by sushi lovers overshadowed a United Nations conference that opened Saturday in the Gulf state of Qatar....

by By AHMED AL-HAJ
13 Mar 2010 at 4:43pm
SAN'A, Yemen (AP) -- An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time....

by By SHAWN POGATCHNIK
13 Mar 2010 at 10:40am
DUBLIN (AP) -- It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons....

by By DALIA NAMMARI
13 Mar 2010 at 10:30am
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Several dozen Palestinian women scuffled with Israeli troops on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Saturday amid rising religious and political tensions in the disputed city....

by By SHERIN ZADA
13 Mar 2010 at 10:32am
SAIDU SHARIF, Pakistan (AP) -- A renewed wave of violence struck Saturday in small-town Pakistan when a suicide bomber on a motorized rickshaw killed 13 people at a security checkpoint, raising fears the nation is sliding back into a period of relentless bloodletting....

13 Mar 2010 at 10:35am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A hospital official says former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is recovering after being hospitalized in the South Korean capital with stomach pains....

13 Mar 2010 at 3:26pm
Google is 99.9 percent certain to shut down its Chinese search engine, google.cn, after coming to an impasse with Chinese authorities, according to report in the Financial Times. The report cites an unnamed source "familiar with the company's thinking."


13 Mar 2010 at 1:37pm

The Afghan president's half-brother says at least 30 people have died and dozens more hurt in four suicide attacks in the southern city of Kandahar.

13 Mar 2010 at 9:01am

A coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was winning in the all-important capital, according to a partial tally of results released Saturday.

13 Mar 2010 at 4:29am

Germany's sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese disclosed that while he was archbishop a suspected pedophile priest was transferred to a job where he later abused children.

12 Mar 2010 at 11:54pm

North Korea plans to head back to the bargaining table early next month for talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons program, a news report said Saturday.

12 Mar 2010 at 7:08pm
Apple is very protective, some would say overly so, about anything it thinks infringes on its trademarks. For example, it filed opposition against a proposed New York City trademark for its GreeNYC program. The logo (left) contains an apple (nothing like the Cupertino firm's though). This time, in Australia, Apple lost.


12 Mar 2010 at 5:25pm

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his government's announcement this week of new Jewish housing in east Jerusalem, calling it "a deeply negative signal" for the Mideast peace process and ties with the U.S. The State Department said Clinton spoke to ...

12 Mar 2010 at 12:52pm

The Government has announced a A 270 million loan guarantee to car giant General Motors to help secure its Vauxhall operations in Britain.

12 Mar 2010 at 8:48am

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the army to seal off the West Bank for 48 hours and tightened security around the old city of Jerusalem, Israeli officials said Friday.

12 Mar 2010 at 8:43am

Japanese authorities arrested an activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegal trespassing after he boarded a whaling ship last month in waters off the Antarctic.

12 Mar 2010 at 8:38am

Fighting erupted in Somalia's capital for the third straight day Friday in some of the worst violence in nearly a year, as government-backed troops shelled the front lines of rebels trying to advance into government-held territory.

12 Mar 2010 at 8:07am

A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 39 people in this eastern city and wounding nearly 100, police said.

12 Mar 2010 at 3:26am

The police chief of Paktia province, Azizudin Wardak, says insurgents launched an attack on a police post on the outskirts the provincial capital.

11 Mar 2010 at 10:55pm

Gordon Brown pays respect to Iraq fallen at Basra wall

11 Mar 2010 at 6:28pm

A series of strong aftershocks from last month's devastating quake rocked Chile on Thursday as a new president was sworn into office and immediately urged coastal residents to move to higher ground in case of a tsunami.

Wash Post World

by Anthony Faiola
12 Mar 2010 at 11:00pm
LONDON -- At a time of deep concern over growing government debt in Europe and the United States, Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen is heading to Washington as a global spokesman for fiscal restraint.

by Philip P. Pan
12 Mar 2010 at 11:00pm
MOSCOW -- A traffic jam in this booming city of 11 million can be a miserable affair, a hope-crushing mess that materializes without warning and can trap drivers for hours.


by Keith B. Richburg
13 Mar 2010 at 3:31pm
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN -- Even in this dusty, dangerous city long accustomed to violence, the killing last month of Abdul Majid Babai managed to shock.

by Lyndsey Layton
13 Mar 2010 at 11:11am
The Food and Drug Administration is reexamining the safety of a culinary staple found in every restaurant, food manufacturing plant and home kitchen pantry: spices.

by Glenn Kessler
12 Mar 2010 at 11:00pm
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton rebuked Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday about the state of the U.S.-Israeli relationship, demanding that Israel take immediate steps to show it is interested in renewing efforts to achieve a Middle East peace agreement.

12 Mar 2010 at 11:00pm


by Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery
12 Mar 2010 at 11:00pm
Democratic leaders on Friday stoked expectations that the year-long debate in Congress over health care may be coming to an end, after President Obama delayed his upcoming trip to the South Pacific and House leaders indicated they could deliver a final bill for his signature by the end of next week.

by Post
12 Mar 2010 at 11:00pm
The unemployment rate last year for young veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars hit 21.1 percent, the Labor Department said Friday, reflecting a tough obstacle that combat veterans face as they make the transition home from war.


by Post
12 Mar 2010 at 11:00pm
PAKISTAN A pattern seems to be developing in Pakistan's war against Islamist extremists: State security forces beat militants into submission, only to see them roar back to life a few months later.

by John Pomfret
12 Mar 2010 at 11:00pm
BEIJING -- China's top Internet regulator warned Google on Friday that it must obey Chinese laws or "pay the consequences," in the bluntest official reaction yet to Google's threat to pull out of China unless the government stops censoring the Internet.

NYT > World

by By JAMES GLANZ
13 Mar 2010 at 3:50pm
Chaos, weak oversight and wide use of cash payments in the Iraq reconstruction program allowed Americans who took bribes to get off scot-free.

by By ANTHONY SHADID and SAM DAGHER
13 Mar 2010 at 4:19pm
In negotiations, the presidency has emerged as a growing quarrel, threatening to upset Iraq’s ambiguous arrangements of sect, ethnicity and power.

by By MARC LACEY
13 Mar 2010 at 4:18pm
Attacks on members of the media along a long stretch of the border with the U.S. have resulted in what amounts to a news blackout.

by By PETER BAKER
13 Mar 2010 at 4:29pm
President Obama and President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia spoke by telephone to resolve differences on a treaty that would slash the active nuclear arsenals of both countries.

by By SIMON ROMERO and ANDRÉS CALA
13 Mar 2010 at 4:29pm
A shadowy underworld of Basque exiles in Caracas is under scrutiny after an indictment from a Spanish judge.

by By RACHEL DONADIO and NICHOLAS KULISH
13 Mar 2010 at 5:20pm
The Vatican decried what it said was an aggressive campaign against Pope Benedict XVI in his native Germany over a growing sexual abuse scandal.

by By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
13 Mar 2010 at 4:36pm
A Human Rights Watch report said 2,700 people lost citizenship from 2004 to 2008 and more were vulnerable.

by By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
13 Mar 2010 at 3:50pm
A new anxiety is gripping Russia: if its athletes perform as badly as they did in Vancouver, the country could be humiliated at home in Sochi in 2014.

by By ALISSA J. RUBIN
13 Mar 2010 at 2:18pm
Two of the attacks occurred near Kandahar’s police headquarters and prison, while the other targets were still unclear, officials said.

by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
13 Mar 2010 at 2:10pm
The bomber, driving a motorized rickshaw, also wounded more than 50 people in the attack in northwestern Pakistan.

by By ANDREW JACOBS
13 Mar 2010 at 7:51am
Han Han, a racecar driver and popular novelist is also China’s most widely read blogger, has been delivering increasingly caustic attacks on the country’s leadership.

by By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
13 Mar 2010 at 12:50am
The Russian Orthodox Church plans construction at the site where scientists believe the Romanov family’s remains were dumped in 1918.

by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
13 Mar 2010 at 11:10am
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has agreed to reverse an earlier decision and allow two foreigners on a commission that will monitor parliamentary elections.

by By CHOE SANG-HUN
13 Mar 2010 at 9:23am
Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. secretary of state, was hospitalized in Seoul for stomach pains , but his condition has quickly improved, said a hospital spokesman.

by By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
13 Mar 2010 at 4:48pm
Mrs. Peel was a highly decorated French resistance figure who helped save dozens of American and British airmen shot down over France during World War II.

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