In the event that Capriles does win and puts a break on Cuban-Venezuelan collaboration, what would be the psychological response of the Venezuelan people?
HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 02.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- Natalia Brzezinski arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, on a freezing night in November with her husband, newly appointed U.S. Ambassador Mark ...
Posted 03.01.2012
Norma Merrick Sklarek, the first African-American woman in the country to become a licensed architect, died Monday, the Los Angeles Times reports. ...
AP | THANYARAT DOKSONE | Posted 03.13.2012
BANGKOK — Thai police were questioning a Lebanese man with alleged links to Hezbollah militants as the U.S. Embassy and Israel warned Friday of ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 11.16.2011
WASHINGTON -- American combat troops in Iraq may be heading to the exits -- or not -- but the U.S. government's enormously expensive intervention ther...
AP | PATRICK QUINN and AMIR SHAH | Posted 11.13.2011
KABUL, Afghanistan — Teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters an...
AP | PATRICK QUINN and AMIR SHAH | Posted 11.13.2011
By PATRICK QUINN and AMIR SHAH, Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan -- Teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons s...
AP | Posted 11.10.2011
MEXICO CITY -- A U.S. Embassy official used a memorial ceremony for the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack to express solidarity with Mexicans ov...
AP | By MATTHEW LEE | Posted 09.10.2011
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that Syrian President Bashar Assad has "lost legitimacy" as a leader interested in...
Reuters | Posted 06.25.2011
April 26, 2011 2:16:02 AM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Monday it has ordered some non-essential U.S. embassy offici...
The Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 06.07.2011
A billionaire Yemeni sheik met with a high-ranking officer from the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa less than two years ago and revealed a secret plan to overth...
Sara Schonhardt | Posted 05.25.2011
For a country that relies so heavily on the power of a strong central leader, Indonesia is showing worrying signs of a retreat from democracy.
Rob Pringle | Posted 05.25.2011
The first thing to do when you lose your passport in Kenya is to make a photocopy of the picture page and your current visa before you lose the passport.
AP/The Huffington Post | By BRADLEY KLAPPER and MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States shuttered its embassy in Libya on Friday and readied stiff financial and other penalties against Muammar Gaddafi ...
Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. State Department employees working throughout the Arab World are abusing foreign workers by illegally confiscating their passports and providing ...
AP | TAREK EL-TABLAWY | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO — In their rush, some forgot their bags. The near mayhem at Cairo's airport over the past few days gave way to slightly more organized ch...
Omid Memarian | Posted 05.25.2011
In a recent article, Middle East expert Reza Aslan writes that Ahmadinejad may not be the hard-line president outside observers thinks he is. Here's why Aslan's characterization of Ahmadinejad is flawed.
AP | TAREK EL-TABLAWY | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO — Foreign governments stepped up their warnings Sunday about travel to Egypt, with several urging their citizens to evacuate as soon as po...
AP | BABAR DOGAR | Posted 05.25.2011
LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan will pursue murder charges against a U.S. consular employee suspected of shooting two armed men during a possible ro...
AP | TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The first, and possibly the last, Guantanamo detainee to have a U.S. civilian trial was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for his r...
Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011
War is a profitable business, and as our economy continues its decline, we can anticipate more calls to "bomb, bomb Iran" so we can fight and spend our way to "recovery." Talk about insanity.
Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011
I've been struck by the contrasts between two ongoing proceedings: The orderliness, professionalism and fairness of the federal court proceedings, and the confusion, uncertainty and inequity that cloud the military commissions.
AP | MATTHEW LEE | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The State Department has ordered U.S. embassies around the world to assess their security ahead of a Florida church group's planned...
Eileen Ogintz | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm still not sure where or how it happened that day in Florence. I thought our passports were securely in my purse, but that evening the leather envelope I carried them in was gone.
Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. military prosecutors in Cuba are reportedly scrambling to get Omar Khadr, the alleged child soldier on trial for war crimes at Gitmo, to plead guilty to murder.
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.22.2012