Civil Unrest

In North Carolina, political protesters welcome arrest

2013-06-12 00:07:00

Raleigh, N.C. — The Rev. Deborah Cayer arrived at the state Legislature building here Monday night wearing a protest button and toting an umbrella. She had tucked her driver's license into her skirt waistband. That was all she carried. She had...

Protests follow upholding of death sentences in Egypt soccer riot

2013-03-09 09:52:00

CAIRO -- Egyptian protesters set fire to a police social club and attempted to block the Suez Canal� on Saturday after a court upheld death sentences for 21 soccer fans and acquitted seven police officers accused in a deadly stadium riot last year....

In Indonesia, watching the sun rise with 504 Buddhas

2012-01-06 09:35:00

Four a.m. is a terrible time of day, too late for night owls, too early for early risers. The exception is 4 a.m. at Borobudur, waiting for the sun to rise over the Kedu Plain in central Java with 504 figures of Buddha. The temple is one of three great...

Movies: Designs that build character

2011-12-18 00:00:00

A movie doesn't have to be jampacked with cinema style to have a memorable fashion moment or two, and in the course of screening the slate of holiday-season films, we found all kinds of clothes, accessories, hairstyles and makeup worth a mention. "Hugo"...

McManus: A deal with the Khartoum devil?

2011-07-17 00:00:00

How do you deal with a genocidal dictator who says he wants to reform? For more than a decade, Sudan has been the quintessential pariah state. Its armed forces carried out a campaign of genocide in Darfur, killing more than 300,000; its president, Omar...

Book review: 'Jerusalem' by Simon Sebag Montefiore

2011-12-11 00:00:00

Simon Sebag Montefiore's epic survey of Jerusalem's sanguinary history does not inspire confidence in the civilizing qualities of religion. The pile of corpses accumulated over millenniums from the persecutions both perpetrated and endured by all three of...

Scores killed in string of bombings in Iraq

2012-01-05 16:38:39

Militants say they killed 15 Pakistani paramilitary troops

2012-01-05 16:38:40

Egyptian prosecutors demand death penalty for Hosni Mubarak

2012-01-05 16:38:38

8 Western troops die in 24 hours in southern Afghanistan

2012-01-06 04:37:07

Syria holds funeral service for victims of Damascus bombing

2012-01-07 16:39:04

Local Tunisian Film Festival launches this week

2012-01-09 16:35:38

R; 2:21 running time "The Flowers of War" has broken new ground for China's movie industry: It's among the first domestically financed films to star a high-profile Hollywood actor (Christian Bale), and its reported budget of close to $100 million makes it the country's priciest production to date.

2012-01-19 08:39:13

Anti-government protesters shout slogans while standing in front of lazer beams emitted by riot police in the village of Diraz west of Manama, December 29, 2011. Hundreds of anti-government protesters took to the streets.

2011-12-29 12:26:11

A woman shouts anti-government slogans during a sit-in outside the United Nations House in Manama. Thousands of anti-government protesters took part in a sit-in in front of the UN House in the capital while shouting anti-government slogans and condemning what they say to be the lack of human rights

2011-12-14 00:00:00