The Extreme Makeover of India's (Possible) Next Leader
The core narrative in Narendra Modi's extreme image makeover is that he is as an economic miracle worker, with a clean anti-corruption record in a country where corruption remains an anathema.
The core narrative in Narendra Modi's extreme image makeover is that he is as an economic miracle worker, with a clean anti-corruption record in a country where corruption remains an anathema.
Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
(updated below - Update II - Update III) This morning, as political and financial leaders from around the world convene at the World Economic Forum, ...
The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011
Northern Irish militant group Real I.R.A., an offshoot of the Irish Republican Army, has turned its violent focus on bankers and banks, in response to...
AP | TIM SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011
SHIKARPUR, Pakistan — The water came in the morning, quietly sweeping across the rice paddies and into the village. Within hours, it was as high...
Wall Street Journal | TOM WRIGHT and SIOBHAN GORMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
Pakistan's main spy agency says homegrown Islamist militants have overtaken the Indian army as the greatest threat to national security, a finding wit...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
Local officials say that Islamist insurgents, fighting a lingering conflict with Algeria's security forces, are targeting the town's small army of une...
Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011
A timetable for withdrawal is a good thing. Ignore the partisan myth-making and keep pressuring your representatives to hold Obama accountable and bring this war to an end.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia said Wednesday it has foiled several planned attacks on oil installations with the arrests of 113 suspected ...
AP | RIZEK ABDEL JAWAD | Posted 05.25.2011
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Hamas officials say Israeli aircraft have fired five missiles at Gaza's defunct airport and nearby border tunnels, wounding ...
Rethink Afghanistan | Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011
A new report from the New America Foundation states that one of every three people killed in the U.S.'s not-so-secret drone war in Pakistan is a civil...
Alex Brant-Zawadzki | Posted 05.25.2011
Produced by HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit Tea parties are proving very attractive to both white supremacists and the militia movemen...
AP | LEE KEATH | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN'A, Yemen — Yemeni security forces clashed with al-Qaida fighters Monday, killing two, the latest sign the embattled, longtime president is m...
BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011
Foreign soldiers have staged an attack on militants in Somalia, killing at least two people in a helicopter raid. The troops, who according to some r...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reached out to Pakistan on Tuesday after months of tension following the Mumbai attacks, s...
New York Times | ISMAIL KHAN and JANE PERLEZ | Posted 05.25.2011
A British militant who was a liaison to Al Qaeda and was a main suspect in the plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners in 2006 was killed Saturday in...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan freed a pro-Taliban cleric and quickly signed an accord with his hard-line group Monday, the first major step by t...
Raw Story | Mike Aivaz and Muriel Kane | Posted 05.25.2011
It has been "a bad year in Afghanistan," according to CBC News, with thousands killed, including hundreds of Afghan police, and large areas of the cou...
Parvez Ahmed | Posted 04.18.2012