Friday 21 June 2013
Jewish Man Is Killed at Western Wall in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — An Israeli security guard shot and killed a Jewish man at the back of the Western Wall plaza early Friday after apparently sus...
Israeli Police Say Man Shot Dead at Western Wall
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Thursday 20 June 2013
Marijuana Crops in California Threaten Forests and Wildlife
Jim Wilson/The New York Times Marijuana crops on private land in Humboldt County, Calif. Some medical marijuana growers follow state r...
Game 7: Heat 95, Spurs 88: Frantic to the Finish: Heat Repeat as Champions
Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images LeBron James of the Miami Heat drives to the basket against the San Antonio Spurs during Game 7 of the N.B.A...
Oil Wealth Reduced, Russia Needs to Lure Foreign Capital
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — For more than a dozen years, it has been impossible to miss Russia’s soaring, often ostentatious, energy wealth —...
Documents Detail Restrictions on N.S.A. Surveillance
WASHINGTON — Since the disclosure of National Security Agency surveillance documents by the British newspaper The Guardian began this mon...
Global Market Turmoil Shows Reach of Fed Beyond U.S.
Michael Appleton for The New York Times Traders at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, a day when the Standard & Poor’s 500-s...
Nearing the One-Year Mark, Morsi Is Besieged by Critics in Egypt
Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times Protesters in Cairo, unhappy with President Mohamed Morsi, have occupied the offices of h...
Czech Premier Candidate Seen as Honest but Inexperienced
PRAGUE — Miroslava Nemcova, the governing party’s candidate to become the next prime minister of the Czech Republic , is a former bookshop...
Amsterdam Journal: The Dutch Prize Their Pedal Power, but a Sea of Bikes Swamps Their Capital
Pavel Prokopchik for The New York Times Amsterdam is trying to keep its hordes of bikes under control. In a city of 800,000, there are...
Obama to Pick Bush-Era Justice Dept. Official to Lead F.B.I.
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday plans to announce the nomination of James B. Comey, a senior Justice Department official under Pres...
Palestinian Prime Minister Offers Resignation After 2 Weeks in Office
JERUSALEM — The new prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Rami Hamdallah, submitted his resignation on Thursday after only two week...
Tobacco Creates New East-West Divide in Europe
LONDON — New rules to be discussed by European Union ministers on Friday would ban menthol and slim cigarettes, a move designed to improve...
Facebook Starts a Short-Video Service
MENLO PARK, Calif. — If “60 Minutes” were being dreamed up today, its producers might very well have ditched the idea and gone with “6 Sec...
Group Keeps Watch on Iran and Possible Sanction Violations
Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times United Against Nuclear Iran, a private advocacy group, keeps a long-distance technological e...
Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists Wary of Muslim Minority
Adam Dean for The New York Times Ashin Wirathu, the spiritual leader of the radical movement, skates a thin line between free speech a...
At the Taliban Office, Waiting for Progress
DOHA, Qatar — The start of peace talks between the United States and the Taliban was delayed on Thursday, with no clear picture of when — ...
2 G.O.P. Senators Reach Deal on Border Security Plan
WASHINGTON — Two Senate Republicans reached an agreement on Thursday on a plan to strengthen border security with the bipartisan group of ...
Brazil’s Leftist Ruling Party, Born of Protests, Is Perplexed by Revolt
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — The protests were heating up on the streets of Brazil’s largest city last week, but the mayor was not in his office. H...