Cluster Bombs Threaten Thousands in Serbia

BELGRADE - An estimated 160,000 people in Serbia are still in danger from thousands of unexploded cluster bombs, ten years after the NATO bombing campaign. The danger is gravest in the south, close to the border with Kosovo. A survey by the independent Norwegian...

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Medics and Interrogations Don’t Mix

Human rights advocates are expressing alarm about recent disclosures that medical professionals assisted the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in harsh interrogations at secret prisons overseas and at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. It has also been brought to...

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A Softer Version of Bush’s Worldview

PARIS - Barack Obama's trip to Europe, the Near East, and Iraq was a personal but not a policy triumph. He and his charming wife, Michelle, seem the most popular people on earth at this moment, but that is a slippery plinth upon which to stand, as the two of them...

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