Pakistani security personnel adamantly insist that their nuclear arsenal is safe, but US security officials do not agree. Senior officials in the Bush administration worry that radical Islamist groups could gain access to the weapons by either seizing them or by infiltrating the labs as scientists...
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As many as 2.5 billion people worldwide need but do not have eyeglasses. The Vision Council of America suggests that 75 percent of adults need eyeglasses to read, drive and work. Glasses, often taken for granted in developed nations, support worker productivity and safety. Yet millions worldwide...
Democracy appears to be malfunctioning in a fast-paced world. “The concept of the Western-style democratic system is that an accountable government funded by revenue from the market will distribute wealth thus creating a stable society,” writes journalist Humphrey Hawksley, who points out large...
Democracy’s discontents: Nigel Farrage, leader of British UKIP supported leaving the European Union, top, while In the United States, discontented Americans gather to hear Donald Trump, Republican nominee for US president
LONDON: Over the past...
The United Nations announced a 72-hour ceasefire for the war in Yemen. The pause, just after the US Navy fired missiles into Yemen in response to attacks on US ships in the Red Sea, may prevent expansion of the war that has killed more than 10,000 and displaced more than 3 million Yemenis. Yemen’s...
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Laura Kasinof was the Yemen correspondent for the New York Times from 2011–12 and the author of the reporting memoir Don’t Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen. She lives in Berlin.
The Japanese have eaten sushi for centuries, making it an important part of their traditional cuisine. Eventually, however, sushi made its way across the Pacific, landing on American plates as an exotic luxury. Once in the United States, sushi morphed to fit American tastes, and un-Japanese...
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With nine residents affected by SARS, Santa Clara County in California has the highest concentration of infected people in the United States. Though the U.S. Centers for Disease Control have published guidelines for American public health officials about how to deal with the illness, Santa Clara...
With the number of local suspected SARS cases climbing to nine on Thursday, Santa Clara County will become one of the first areas to go beyond federal health guidelines and start monitoring a broader range of people to...
US intelligence agencies briefed Donald Trump in late February on reports that a Russian military intelligence unit paid bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan, according to two sources, reports the New York Times. The White House claims the report...
About one percent of the 250,000 US State Department cables released to WikiLeaks have been published in newspapers since early December. While the official US reaction was fury, with revealed sources embarrassed, US citizens shrugged and the global public was fascinated. This two-part series, part...
Embarrassment: A US cable released by WikiLeaks, describing Gaddafi's nurse as "voluptuous," has cooled Libya-US relations
WASHINGTON: The WikiLeaks disclosure of secret US State Department cables has triggered a diplomatic firestorm. American...
