NEW YORK-The United Nations human rights chief warned today that Syria could descend into civil war as more members of the armed forces defect, noting that nearly 1,000 of the estimated 4,000 people who have died in the bloody crackdown on protesters have been members of the security forces.
BRUSSELS-In Brussels, in an attempt to rescue the Euro, 23 of 27 national leaders from that continent agreed on a pact to bind their nations together under one fiscal policy. The pact would harmonize fiscal policies and cap government debt and deficits and allow the union to place sanctions on nations that do not adhere […]
SAN FRANCISCO — For the thirteenth straight year, I’m happy to be spending one week of December here, at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, where more than 15,000 scientists gather for a week to discuss the latest news of the world.
MEXICO-Mexican authorities announced yesterday that they had thwarted a plan to smuggle 38 year old Saadi Kadafi into Mexico. Saadi, the son of now dead Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, was to travel to Mexico using falsified documents along with three others. Once there, they would have taken up residence in the ritzy Punta Mita resort […]