Given the mad rush to war in Libya, when Britain and others suddenly decided Benghazi risked becoming the new Srebrenica, it is unsurprising that little or no thought was given to the seemingly unrelated question of sub-Saharan migration into the EU. But the law of unintended consequences is inexorable. What began as a quixotic fight in a faraway country has mutated into a life-or-death struggle on the tourist beaches of Europe. Apparently, nobody saw it coming. The people dying in this war...
Police in Long Island who earlier this spring rang the alarm about a possible serial killer preying on prostitutes and dumping their remains along lonely stretches of a beachside road now believe they are looking at the gruesome work of at least two murderers or possibly more. While four bodies...
The Syrian regime continued its brutal wave of repression yesterday as it sent troops into southern villages around the trouble-hit city of Deraa in spite of EU sanctions announced earlier this week, which targeted top Baathist officials. Shooting was heard as the army moved in on the five villages...
The international community must make it clear it will not abandon Afghanistan after the security handover in 2014, the commander of British forces in the country has warned. A lack of long-term commitment would allow the Taliban to wait out the military campaign and undermine the confidence of the...
TUNICA, Miss.-The bulging Mississippi River rolled into the fertile Mississippi Delta on Tuesday, threatening to swamp antebellum mansions, wash away shotgun shacks, and destroy fields of cotton, rice and corn in a flood of historic proportions. The river took aim at one of the most poverty-stricken...
Beginning of Story Content The global impact of natural disasters took a turn for the worse in 2010 with an uptick in fatalities and economic damage, according to a report released Tuesday. Victoria Hernandez cries on March 1, 2010, outside the home of her parents who were missing after the...
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an interview published Tuesday denounced China's clampdown on dissent as a "fool's errand," saying Beijing was trying to stop the course of history. The remarks, some of the strongest by a senior US official since...
