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International News
international news
May 24, 2014
Gunman Kills Three at Brussels Jewish Museum
One suspect is in custody.
By
Delia Paunescu
international news
Mar. 5, 2014
North Korea Still Firing Missiles, But Toning Down the Crazy Talk
No more “sea of flames”?
By
Adam Martin
international news
Mar. 2, 2014
China’s Latest Knife Attack Raises Security Questions
The casualty count has reached 29.
By
Delia Paunescu
international news
Mar. 1, 2014
27 Killed in Chinese Knife Attack
And 109 injured.
By
Delia Paunescu
tv-stained wretches
Feb. 28, 2014
MSNBC Map Reestablishes Czechoslovakia
Time for an update.
By
Adam Martin
Feb. 27, 2014
North Korea Kicks Off Crazy Season With Missile Launch
Here we go!
By
Adam Martin
international news
Feb. 22, 2014
Protesters Invade Ukranian President’s Residence
Meanwhile, his rival is released from prison.
By
Delia Paunescu
international news
Feb. 21, 2014
Peace Deal Reached in Ukraine, With Amnesty for Protesters
Let’s hope this calms things down.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Feb. 21, 2014
North Korea Is Entering Its Crazy Season
U.S.-South Korean war games start next week.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Feb. 20, 2014
Kiev Truce Dissolves Into Gunfire and Flames
An already-violent protest gets out of hand.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Feb. 19, 2014
North Korea’s Latest Foregin Prisoner Is a 75-Year-Old Australian
A bit old for a labor camp.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Feb. 17, 2014
North Korea Seriously Is the Worst, U.N. Panel Concludes
Kim Jong-un may face International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Feb. 13, 2014
Russia Makes Its Anti-Gay Policies International With Expanded Adoption Ban
No adoptions by single people in countries that allow gay marriage.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Feb. 10, 2014
Suicide-Bomb Lessons As Dangerous As Expected
An instructor in Iraq killed his class.
international news
Feb. 10, 2014
North Korea Just Messing With U.S. Over Prisoner’s Release
This is getting tiresome.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Jan. 16, 2014
Some North Korean Threats and Insults We’ll Really Miss
Now that the North is giving them up (yeah, right).
By
Adam Martin
international news
Jan. 13, 2014
Irish Chess Match Ends in Gruesome Murder, Missing Lung
The lung’s whereabouts are unknown.
By
Adam Martin
Dec. 19, 2013
London Theater Ceiling Collapse Injures Scores
Many thought it was part of the play.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Dec. 11, 2013
Marijuana Is Now Fully Legal in Uruguay
Eat your hearts out, Colorado and Washington.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Nov. 4, 2013
1,500 Nazi-Looted Paintings Found in Guy’s Attic in Munich
Thanks to a random check three years ago.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Oct. 7, 2013
Threat of a ‘Horrible Disaster’ Is No Way for North Korea to Obtain a Ski Lift
Transparent motives in the latest saber rattling.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Oct. 5, 2013
Navy SEALs Raided a Somali Compound This Morning
But what exactly they accomplished is yet unclear.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Sept. 29, 2013
Militants Gun Down Sleeping Students at Nigerian College
Just awful.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Sept. 23, 2013
Kenyan Officials: Mall Hostages Freed, Americans Among Attackers [Updated]
Though shots and explosions continued on Tuesday morning.
By
Adam Martin
and
Margaret Hartmann
international news
Sept. 17, 2013
Russians Have More Philosophical Bar Fights Than We Do
Let the New York
Times
explain this one.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Sept. 16, 2013
Watch the Costa Concordia Rise From Its Watery Resting Place
It’s upright once more!
By
Adam Martin
international news
Sept. 12, 2013
Explosion, Gunfight Near U.S. Consulate in Afghanistan
At least one killed.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Sept. 12, 2013
North Korea Apparently Back to Nuclear Trolling
The Yongbyon nuclear reactor restarts.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Aug. 29, 2013
Did Kim Jong-un Have the ‘Excellent Horse-Like Lady’ Singer Executed?
A Korean daily reports she was shot for making porn.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Aug. 8, 2013
The U.S. Evacuated Its Consulate in Lahore
Citing “specific threats.”
By
Adam Martin
July 28, 2013
Spanish Train Driver Charged With 79 Homicides, Released on Bail
Reportedly told judge he was traveling too fast.
By
Adam Martin
international news
July 20, 2013
Beijing Airport Bomber Injured Only Himself
In an apparent desperate act of protest.
By
Adam Martin
international news
June 23, 2013
Nelson Mandela Is in Critical Condition
Just when his health was said to be improving.
By
Adam Martin
international news
May 18, 2013
North Korea Reminds Everybody About Its Missiles by Launching Some
The leadership is angry about the United States and South Korea’s joint naval exercises.
By
Adam Martin
cyber security
Feb. 19, 2013
Meet ‘Comment Crew,’ China’s Military-Linked Hackers
The
Times
has an address for the hackers it thinks attacked the paper.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Feb. 4, 2013
Abbottabad Swears Its Planned Theme Park Won’t Be Bin Laden Land
A zoo, waterfalls, and “nothing to do with Osama bin Laden.”
By
Adam Martin
media
Jan. 30, 2013
Chinese Hackers Stole Every New York
Times
Employee’s Password
They’re still mad about that Wen Jiabao expose.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Dec. 12, 2012
North Korea’s Satellite Doesn’t Work Very Well
It’s “tumbling out of control,” apparently.
By
Adam Martin
international news
Dec. 11, 2012
North Korea’s Latest Rocket Launch Actually Worked [Updated]
Unlike last time, no catastrophic crash.
By
Adam Martin
Dec. 4, 2012
John McAfee Emerges From ‘Hiding’ to Seek Asylum in Guatemala
All his recent “misdirection” worked.
By
Adam Martin
nuclear iran
May 22, 2012
U.N. Promises Nuclear Deal With Iran Coming Soon
The U.S. and Israel are not holding their breath.
By
Joe Coscarelli
the war in afghanistan
Apr. 18, 2012
U.S. Troops Posed for Pictures With Dead Suicide Bombers in Afghanistan
The Los Angeles
’Times
’ has released the photos despite requests from the government not to publish them.
By
Joe Coscarelli
international intrigue
Nov. 22, 2011
Military in Egypt Promises Speedy Elections As 100,000 Protest in Tahrir Square
Demonstrations rage amid meetings about the future.
By
Joe Coscarelli
bunga bunga
Nov. 14, 2011
Silvio Berlusconi’s Greatest (and Most Offensive) Hits
It’s been a wild, often cringe-worthy ride for the Italian Prime Minister.
By
Joe Coscarelli
international intrigue
Nov. 8, 2011
Berlusconi to Resign After Austerity Measures Pass [Updated]
The Italian prime minister has no more majority.
By
Joe Coscarelli
international intrigue
Nov. 7, 2011
Berlusconi Denies Resignation Rumors on Facebook
’Like.’
By
Joe Coscarelli
occupy wall street
Oct. 18, 2011
Occupy Everywhere: Dispatches From Demonstrations Around the World, Vol. 1
A roundup of international news from the loosely linked protests.
By
Joe Coscarelli
international news
Sept. 12, 2011
No Radiation Leaking in French Nuclear Plant Explosion [Updated]
A blast at Marcoule in southern France killed one person this morning.
By
Joe Coscarelli
photo op
Oct. 15, 2010
It’s All Fun and Games Until the Lady in the Vegetable Outfit Gets Hurt
“The rueful moment Jim Rodgers attempted to jump a vegetable-themed employee.”
By
Jessica Pressler