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WASHINGTON — President Obama personally added a reference to the Crusades in his speech this week at the National Prayer Breakfast, aides said, hoping to add context and nuance to…
UNITED NATIONS — In a show of unity by the world powers against the Islamic State, the United Nations Security Council is preparing to adopt a legally binding resolution intended…
DAKAR, Senegal — The Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram on Friday morning struck across Nigeria’s border into Niger for the first time, broadening the regional conflict to a fourth country…
Visitors to the Olympic Park stopped to pose in December with some of the mascots from Russia’s Sochi Games, which ran from Feb. 7 to 23, 2014, and cost $51…
BERLIN — Werner Herzog has made films about swashbuckling men contending with some of the most extreme environments on earth, from the Amazon to Antarctica. But with “Queen of the…
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada struck down on Friday laws banning physician-assisted suicide for patients with “grievous and irremediable” medical conditions. The unanimous decision, which reverses the position…
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Tina Maze of Slovenia won the women’s downhill at the Alpine world ski championships Friday, giving her a gold medal to add to the silver she…
LOS ANGELES — For 50 years, the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury lived and wrote at 10265 Cheviot Drive, a bright yellow stucco home built in 1937 that is tucked…
MUNICH — Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, was assailed by hard-liners in Tehran last month for talking a widely photographed walk in Geneva with Secretary of State John Kerry…
A compilation of Brian Williams’s television appearances shows how his accounts of a 2003 episode on military helicopters in Iraq gradually became more perilous. NBC News is starting an internal…
A compilation of Brian Williams’s television appearances shows how his accounts of a 2003 episode on military helicopters in Iraq gradually became more perilous. –
ISTANBUL — The Turkish foreign minister withdrew at the last minute from a high-profile international security conference in Munich on Friday, after learning that Israeli diplomats might take part. The…
SANA, Yemen — Twelve-year-old Nefisa Nasser lined up four jerrycans by a faucet on the side of a busy street, patiently waiting her turn to fill them with water. She…
That appeared to be Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s response on Friday to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli premier, whose plans for a speech to a joint meeting of Congress…
ATHENS, Greece — Standard & Poor’s has cut its credit rating on Greece further into junk status amid concerns over the country’s cash position, as the country’s new government signaled…
BATON ROUGE, La. — In recent weeks, the office of Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana has issued news releases about the “mindless naïveté” of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the folly of…
Update By MATT BEARDMORE Fatal crashes of Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia and TransAsia Airways planes in the past year have prompted travelers to raise questions about the safety of Asian carriers…
The Islamic State claimed Friday that the Jordanian bombings in northern Syria intended to avenge its immolation of a captured pilot had killed an American woman held hostage by the…
SANA, Yemen — The Houthi rebels who effectively forced Yemen’s president and cabinet to step down last month announced on Friday that they intended to dissolve Parliament and take control…
The Saturday Profile By IAN JOHNSON BEIJING — It is a winter day in China’s smoggy capital, and Wu Liangyong is wondering what went wrong. For 70 years, Mr. Wu…
Melissa Clark makes this rich dessert with bittersweet chocolate, heavy cream and brown sugar. A Good Appetite By MELISSA CLARK I once baked heart-shaped chocolate shortbreads for my sweetie at…
First there were long lines and waits that lasted hours, followed by website glitches, protracted hold times on telephone information lines and extreme difficulty in arranging timely appointments. The introduction…
Follow Us: Get the Upshot in your Inbox FEB. 6, 2015 – But the report clearly adds ammunition to those within the central bank who take an alternate view, which…
In a sign the economic momentum evident late last year has carried into 2015, the Labor Department said Friday that American employers added 257,000 jobs in January, as wage growth…
MANILA — President Benigno S. Aquino III accepted the resignation of the Philippines’ national police chief on Friday, two weeks after a disastrous raid left 44 police commandos dead and…
KIEV, Ukraine — As the leaders of Germany and France prepared to travel to Moscow on Friday to press President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on a deal to end…
WASHINGTON — President Obama may have thought he was giving a straightforward history lesson at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday when he compared the atrocities of the Islamic State…
Talk Interview by JEFF HIMMELMAN – You recently did a tour with $20 tickets and $4 beers. Is it your goal going forward to keep it affordable? Yeah. Even if…
LONDON — The court that oversees intelligence agencies in Britain ruled on Friday that the electronic mass surveillance of cellphone and other online communications data had been conducted unlawfully. –…
BEIJING — The Chinese state-run media on Friday lambasted President Obama after he publicly, and warmly, greeted the Dalai Lama during a prayer breakfast in Washington, calling it a shortsighted…