Residents warned after acid leak

Residents warned after acid leak

Residents warned after acid leak

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 01:09 PM PST

Residents are being advised to stay indoors following a leak at a chemical plant in Greater Manchester.


Sierra Leone readies for tight elections

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 01:10 PM PST

Eight presidential hopefuls challenge incumbent Koroma in vote closely watched by the international community.


An interactive map showing Hamas's rocket range inside Israel

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:53 PM PST


View GazaMissiles in a larger map

As Gaza-based militants continue firing rockets and mortar rounds into Israel and Israeli forces target suspected rocket sites, this map can help in evaluating the threat Hamas's rockets pose to Israelis. Put together by The Washington Post's graphics team, it depicts regions of Israel color-coded to show which Hamas rockets could theoretically reach them.

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Bomb Kills 17 Civilians in Afghanistan

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:22 PM PST

The Afghans were on their way to a wedding in western Afghanistan when their van hit a roadside bomb, and most of the dead were women and children.


Putin provokes criticism with Pussy Riot anti-Semitism charge

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:54 PM PST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin provoked angry criticism from bloggers and activists on Friday when he suggested to German Chancellor Angela Merkel that one of the jailed women from the Pussy Riot punk band was anti-Semitic.

Vettel tops second practice in US

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:38 PM PST

Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel produced an ominous performance to set the pace in Friday practice at the United States GP.


Putin provokes criticism with Pussy Riot anti-Semitism charge

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:44 PM PST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin provoked angry criticism from bloggers and activists on Friday when he suggested to German Chancellor Angela Merkel that one of the jailed women from the Pussy Riot punk band was anti-Semitic.

Mali Islamists clash with rebels

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:31 PM PST

Tuareg-led rebels say they have launched an offensive against militant Islamists in northern Mali, while mediation efforts continue.


Help wanted on porn piracy cases

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 08:32 AM PST

A digital rights group is seeking financial help to stop an adult film-maker contacting Britons suspected of pirating pornographic movies.


Crews fight petrol tankers blaze

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 01:04 PM PST

Firefighters are tackling a blaze involving three petrol tankers in Suffolk, the fire service says.


The Israeli-Palestinian politics of a bloodied child's photo

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:17 PM PST

Wars are often defined by their images, and the renewed fighting between Israel and Gaza-based Hamas has already produced three such photographs in as many days. In the first, displayed on the front page of Thursday's Washington Post, BBC journalist Jihad Misharawi carries the body of his 11-month-old son, killed when a munition landed on his Gaza home. An almost parallel image shows an emergency worker carrying an Israeli infant, bloody but alive, from the scene of a rocket attack that had killed three adults. The third, from Friday, captures Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil, in his visit to a Gazan hospital, resting his hand on the head of a boy killed in an airstrike.

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Croatian generals return home after acquittal

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:11 PM PST

Appeals judges at war crimes tribunal reverse 2011 rulings for crimes committed against Serb civilians in 1995.


Egypt's Mursi to avoid Coptic ceremony, dismays Christians

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:18 PM PST

CAIRO (Reuters) - President Mohamed Mursi will not attend the installation ceremony of the new Coptic pope, the church said on Friday, to the dismay of Christians who fear being sidelined in the new Islamist-led Egypt.

U.S. eases import ban on Myanmar ahead of Obama trip

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:53 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it will allow imports from Myanmar for the first time in nearly a decade, a move that could boost the struggling economy in the former pariah state.

Independent becomes Bristol mayor

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 08:57 AM PST

A man who set up his own political party to stand out on the ballot paper becomes mayor of Bristol.


Using leftovers to paint the world

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 11:15 AM PST

Rony Delgarde immigrated to the United States from Haiti with only five dollars and a holy bible. The first thing he saw when he landed at Miami International Airport, were all the colorfully painted buildings. From that, Global Paint for Charity was born.

India Ink: From India, Pressure on Ireland Over Abortion Laws

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 11:09 AM PST

The death of an Indian woman denied a potentially life-saving abortion prompts outrage in India.


‘The Patriarch,’ a Joseph P. Kennedy Biography, by David Nasaw

Posted: 15 Nov 2012 01:26 PM PST

David Nasaw's biography of Joseph P. Kennedy, a man involved in virtually all the history of his time.


Islamists clash with separatist rebels in Mali's north

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 11:45 AM PST

BAMAKO (Reuters) - Islamist gunmen and rival separatist rebels fought a gunbattle in the east of Mali on Friday, both groups said, the first clash between them for months.

U.S. seriously concerned about abuses by Nigerian forces

Posted: 16 Nov 2012 11:36 AM PST

LAGOS (Reuters) - The United States is seriously concerned about abuses committed by Nigerian security forces that are fuelling support for the Islamist insurgency in the north, the U.S. assistant secretary for democracy and human rights said on Friday.

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