A Conference Won't Fix Afghanistan
Global Good Will and Catchy New-Sounding Initiatives Won't Stop Corruption, or Make the Taliban Good Allies
World
North Korea Resumes Fire on Sea Border
More Artillery Fire, Apparently into its Own Waters, Follows Similar Shelling a Day Earlier
North Korea Detains 2nd American
Man Said to be Under Investigation after Illegally Entering from China, Few Other Details Provided
Hypertension Hospitalizes Lula da Silva
Brazilian President's Doc Convinces Him to Skip Trip to Switzerland Conference Over Blood Pressure Spike
Iran Hangs Opposition Activists
State Television Reports Two Men Convicted of Trying to Overthrow Government Executed
Malaysia Arrests Linked to Xmas Bomber
Gov't-Linked Newspaper says 10 Men Arrested Under Terror Law Associated with Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Mexico Sees Record Drop in Remittances
Money Sent Home by Mexicans Abroad Plunged 15.7 Percent during Economic Slowdown
Teenage Girl Pulled from Quake Rubble
Stunning Recovery Occurs 15 Days after Earthquake Devastated Port-au-Prince; 17-Year-Old Moments from Death
Authors Defend Claim on UK Secret Prisons
British Gov't Dismisses U.N. Report's Allegations of Participating in Terror Program for Interrogating Detainees
Auschwitz Survivors Mark 65th Anniversary
Soviet Army Liberated Nazi Camp in 1945; 150 Survivors, European Leaders Attend Ceremony
Envoy: U.S. Backs Taliban Reintegration
Richard Holbrooke Says U.S. Will Support Plan to Turn Taliban Fighters Away from al Qaeda; Taliban Dismisses Notion
Haiti Gets a Penny of Each U.S. Aid Dollar
Experts Say Directing More Money to Government Would be a Mistake
Now Free, Pope Gunman's Next Move Unclear
Turkish Man Who Shot Pope in 1981 Described as "Psychopath" who Might Try to Profit from his Notorious Image
White House Seeks New Iran Sanctions
Clinton Discusses Tougher Sanctions with Russian Leaders; Proposal Could Circulate at U.N. This Week
CIA Agent Takes Back Waterboarding Claims
In New Book, Former CIA Operative Denies Claims That Qaeda Agent Provided Intelligence After 30 Seconds of Waterboarding
Live
U.S. reducing troop footprint in Middle East, sources say
Son of Stephen Hubbard, American freed from Russian jail, speaks out
Witkoff blasted for calling Putin a "humanitarian"
Supreme Court rejects bid to restrict treatments for trans inmates
Judge curbs DHS efforts to conduct sweeps for possible noncitizen voters
Elon Musk's Starlink and Starshield, and what they mean to Ukraine
U.S. ordering some government staff to depart Saudi Arabia
Investigation
Armed federal agents knock on doors looking for noncitizen voters
