Iason Athanasiadis’ ordeal began at the airport, shortly after he checked in for his flight to leave Tehran. “I was heading to the gate,” the Greek-British journalist said.
Reporter held for 21 days in Iranian jails
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U.S. government sites among those hit by cyberattack
U.S. government Web sites — including those of the White House and the State Department — have been under attack since the Fourth of July, along with financial and commercial sites like Yahoo Finance and the New York Stock Exchange, cybersecurity experts said Wednesday. The Department of Homeland Security, which is one of the targets, according to a security expert, confirmed that the attacks were taking place
Analysis: Sotomayor quietly prepares for hearings
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s world these days is a tiny, plain office in the Eisenhower Office Building next door to the West Wing of the White House.
The Third Wave of Therapy
Before he was an accomplished psychologist, Steven Hayes was a mental patient.
Clinton Helps Push Honduran Foes to Negotiations
If the Latin American left knows anything, it’s the value of political theater. When leftist, coup-ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya tried to return to his country on Sunday in a private jet, buzzing the Tegucigalpa airport before soldiers blocked the runway, many inside the Organization of American States and the Obama Administration considered it a reckless stunt that might hamper a negotiated solution to the crisis. But as it turns out, the aerial spectacle may have aided their cause: it finally coalesced hundreds of thousands of Zelaya supporters on the ground and helped prompt Honduran coup leaders, already facing international condemnation, to reconsider their hard-line stance against any brokered settlement
Why Mexico’s Voters Turned Back to the Future
It may have sounded strange, on the campaign trail in 2006, when Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon warned members of his conservative National Action Party to repress “the little PRI-ista we all carry inside us.” PRI, of course, is the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ruled Mexico as a corrupt one-party dictatorship for 71 years until the PAN finally ousted it in 2000. Unconvinced that the ruling party had indeed exorcised its inner-PRI, Mexico’s voters in Sunday’s midterm election indulged their own by voting in droves for the PRI. The PRI emerged from Sunday’s poll as the dominant force in Mexico’s 500-seat legislature, and in pole position for the 2012 presidential race
Biden’s Israel and Iran Comments Produce Oil-Price Fears
Oil analysts are jittery this week following comments on Sunday by Vice President Joe Biden that were widely interpreted as a green light to Israel to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities.
A Uighur Leader Blames China for Xinjiang Violence
The Uighur leader blamed by Beijing for instigating the riots that continue to roil China’s western Xinjiang province is calling on the U.N. to investigate the causes of the violence
Honduras accepts mediation offer, Costa Rica says
Provisional Honduran President Roberto Micheletti has accepted an offer that an independent commission help broker an impasse over whether to allow the return of ousted President Jose Manual Zelaya, Costa Rica’s foreign ministry said Tuesday. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias offered to form a mediation panel with representatives from four or five countries. The development came as Zelaya, ousted by the Honduran military on June 28, met in Washington with U.S.
Clinton to meet with deposed Honduran leader
Deposed Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya will meet Tuesday with U.S.