Within hours of announcing they were ready to talk peace, the Taliban took credit for killing four more Americans and the government of Afghanistan is backing out of agreements. Is the whole process doomed to failure?
Who are "the Illegals"?
Cliffs Notes version: "We're easy game"
"They couldn't have been spies," said a neighbor. "Look what she did with the hydrangeas."
Did Hastings, the embedded reporter, mislead McChrystal?
Global financial leaders come away from Toronto vowing to cut deficits
What he wants: real progress, this time
Because apparently nothing else happened in the world today
President Medvedev pays a visit to the White House
Rough waters ahead, say experts
The general faces a tough mission
"Global demand must rest on many pillars going forward"
And how it won't
The top general's days could be numbered
Tehran claims they leaked "false" information
The decision to "liberalize" has won praise from the Obama administration
Reports find 2,200 killed and 400,000 displaced
Parliament approves laws that may be the freest in the world
More imports by land will be allowed
As violence surges, Felipe Calderón publishes a 5,000-word essay
Twelve authors in Le Monde rail against the "violence of neoliberal capitalism"
Some analysts are bracing for a Mediterranean confrontation
Soldiers were found to have unlawfully killed civilians in Northern Ireland
The sword-wielding vigilante meets Twitter
Pessimism grows in D.C. policy circles
Most observers deem it unlikely
Ethnic violence has already killed 117
The New York Times reports there are $1 trillion in deposits
It's gone too far, they say, and it's hurting their pension plans
A key juncture for the Rainbow Nation
Slow progress in a key Afghan province
The United Nations punishes Iran's nuclear program
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