As more details emerge about the Jan. 19 assassination of a senior
operative in Dubai, it looks increasingly like a badly botched operation. When the Dubai police first announced that the hotel room of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh had been locked from the inside, I had dismissed that as an unimportant detail – maybe a way to [...]

“if necessary”,
.
“I want to be very clear. If necessary, eurozone governments will fulfil their commitments and there can be no doubt about that,” Sarkozy told a joint
.
“If Greece needs us, we will be there,” he said.
The French president said governments of the 16-nation eurozone were working on a “certain number [...]

CONCEPCION, Chile –
and tetanus vaccination campaign Friday and doctors warned of outbreaks of diarrhea and infection among thousands of people displaced by the earthquake and the tsunami that heavily damaged or destroyed 36 hospitals and made garbage dumps of coastal towns and cities.
With many pharmacies looted, people suffering from
,
and psychological illnesses [...]

GENEVA – Aid workers, with the help of
, are uploading key information onto the Web to illustrate the needs of hundreds of thousands of people left homeless by Haiti’s earthquake — an innovation that could significantly boost the ability to respond to future disasters.
The idea is new and relatively simple: U.N. and non-governmental [...]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina –
asked for U.S. help Monday in resolving a brewing dispute with
over the Southern Atlantic islands that were the subject of a brief war more than 25 years ago and where Britain has begun drilling for oil.
President Cristina Fernandez said she made the request during an unexpectedly lengthy meeting with [...]

after the government asked for help in its recovery from this weekend’s massive earthquake.
U.N. humanitarian spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs says Chile officially made its request Monday, two days after the 8.8-magnitude quake struck about 325 kilometers (200 miles) south of the capital, Santiago, and killed over 700 people.
Byrs told the AP that the global [...]

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – U.S. Secretary of
where Britain has begun drilling for oil.
Speaking in Uruguay ahead of a hastily scheduled visit to Argentina, Clinton said the two countries should agree themselves over the sovereignty of the British-administered
, where the two nations fought a brief war in 1982.
Clinton said the United States is [...]

,
newspaper Ta Nea reported on Saturday, citing unnamed sources.
declined to comment on the report, which came after growing signs that diplomatic efforts were underway to resolve Greece's debt crisis.
or provide guarantees for other banks to buy them, said Ta Nea, a major newspaper, quoting unnamed banking sources and officials close to
.
[...]

POND-SONDE, Haiti – Haiti’s rice farmers are dismayed. It’s nearly harvest time in this fertile valley where the bulk of Haiti’s food is grown, and they’re competing once again with cheap U.S. imported rice.
Just down the road, vendors are undercutting them, selling the far less expensive grain. Subsidized U.S. rice has flooded
for decades. [...]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina –
where Britain has begun drilling for oil.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
at U.N. headquarters, Foreign Minister
told reporters Ban was not happy tensions have worsened because of Britain’s decision to start drilling and was willing to continue his “good offices” mission.
A statement issued later by Ban’s office said the secretary-general [...]