A University of Arizona Russia expert called Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday both “predictable and avoidable.” Read more
CAIRO — Egyptian officials denied reports Tuesday night that deposed President Hosni Mubarak was clinically dead after he suffered a stroke and slipped out of consciousness at a prison hospital in Cairo, according to state and independent news media. Read more
CAIRO — The decorum of diplomacy has devolved into embarrassing headlines and testy one-liners in the increasingly strained relations between Egypt and Israel. Read more
BENTIU, South Sudan — Sudanese forces launched a major attack along the border with South Sudan after the South Sudanese army withdrew from a disputed oil field on Friday, signaling that the recent border war between the two countries is not yet over and might be entering a new phase. Read more
An American flag, an Arizona flag and an Israeli flag were placed atop a stage at the third annual “Night to Honor Israel” event, a call to the nation to stand in support of Israel. Read more
LONDON — Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to killing 77 people in a rampage last July, went on trial Monday in Oslo for Norway’s worst criminal episode since World War II. Read more
BEIJING — After the embarrassment of a controversial North Korean rocket launch ending in explosion on Friday morning, observers are now left to wonder what Pyongyang might do next. The Unha-3 (Galaxy) rocket was meant to be a grand reminder of the 100th anniversary of the April 15 birth of Kim Il Sung, the nation’s founder. Read more
CAIRO — The Egyptian parliament Thursday passed a law barring top officials from deposed President Hosni Mubarak’s regime from running for president, a move certain to draw legislators into a fierce political battle with the country’s military leaders ahead of next month’s election. Read more
PARIS — Algeria’s first post-independence president, Ahmed Ben Bella, who died Wednesday at the age of 95, was a charismatic revolutionary who fought alongside the French during World War II before becoming a hero of his own country’s liberation struggle. Read more
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intervened Tuesday on behalf of Jewish settlers who last week took occupancy of a disputed building in the restive West Bank city of Hebron, requesting that a military order to evict them be postponed. Read more
MIAMI — He is the man who stood up amid the crowd before a papal Mass in Cuba and shouted “Freedom!” Read more
MEXICO CITY – Former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, 77, who led the country during economic meltdown and natural disaster in the 1980s and laid the groundwork for freer markets and politics, died Sunday morning at a Mexico City hospital where he was admitted several weeks ago for lung disease. Read more
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration cleared the way for tightening sanctions on Iran with a determination that a reduction in the global purchases of Iranian oil wouldn’t harm the world petroleum market. President Barack Obama determined that though world oil supplies are tight, there is a “sufficient supply of petroleum and petroleum-related products from countries other than Iran” to make the reductions manageable, the White House said in a statement Friday. Obama was required to make the finding under a 2011 law that sets in motion graduated sanctions aimed at squeezing Iran to persuade it to accept limits on its nuclear program. Read more
