JERUSALEM — Gilad Shalit, held for more than five years by Hamas, was traded on Tuesday for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails in an exchange that could shake up regional politics.
TRIPOLI, Libya — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Tripoli on Tuesday to show support for Libya’s new transitional government.
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration decided to use airstrikes to disable the Qaddafi regime, but only after a new kind of warfare was discussed.
ATHENS — Concerns are growing about Greece’s ability, and willingness, to trim its public work force, a group that is protected by its political power.
MUMBAI — India’s richest man has built a 27-story house, but the owners have not moved in — raising questions as to why.
KIEV, Ukraine — President Viktor F. Yanukovich of Ukraine suggested he was not bending to global pressure.
PHOENIX — The Occupy protesters across the United States seem united in feeling that the system is stacked against them.
BEIJING — The woman killed herself Monday in a Tibetan town in western China while calling for religious freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin warned in a television interview shown on Monday of a return to the volatility of previous decades should Russia swerve from its current course.
JERUSALEM — Ilan Grapel, an American law student from Queens, is expected to be released in the coming days in exchange for scores of Egyptians held in Israel.
NAIROBI, Kenya — The Kenyan military sent hundreds of soldiers into Somalia over the weekend, and the Shabab militant group vowed to attack Kenya in retaliation.
BERGHOLZ, Ohio — A splinter group has been blamed for humiliating other Amish by forcibly cutting their beards, shocking the insular community.
Shipping, fishing and mining interests are looking for profit in the newly accessible Arctic Ocean.
From erosion to withering crops to destroyed dwellings, climate change is affecting a South Pacific nation in myriad ways.
The driver Dan Wheldon was a star who drew little notice in Britain.
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Robert Redford opposes building an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.
Afghans are worried that an attack has pierced the Panjshir Valley’s inviolability.
Republican presidential candidates are offering largely bad analysis and worse solutions on national security.
Students perform in honor of a director, who was killed in the West Bank.
Vladimir V. Putin’s call for a new Eurasian Union is a response to concerns over the growing Chinese influence in Russia’s backyard.
Matthew Herbert, a British electronic musician, tracks a pig’s life from birth to its slaughter.
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