With hotel rooms in short supply, the residents of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, or slums, are renting out their homes to visiting soccer fans from around the globe.
He has demonstrated an ability not only to wield the executive power of the Kremlin but also to bend the legislative and judicial branches of government to his will.
Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky spent his first full day of freedom reconnecting with his family and meeting with German officials in Berlin amid speculation about what he might do next.
Four service members were wounded on Saturday after aircraft flying into South Sudan to evacuate American citizens were attacked and forced to turn back, officials said.
Longstanding tensions between ethnic groups could ultimately tear the new nation apart, activists and diplomats fear.
A nation is trying to clean up after thousands of homes that, after the housing bubble burst, were never finished or are substandard.
Secret documents reveal more than 1,000 targets of U.S. and British surveillance in recent years, including the office of an Israeli prime minister and heads of international aid organizations.
The leader of the Democrat Party, which has its base in Thailand’s old moneyed elite, said the elections would be the “same old power grab” by the governing party and its allies.
Of the more than two million Syrian refugees in the region, about 865,000 are children, and most of them are not enrolled in school, Unicef said.
The new position could protect the diplomat, Devyani Khobragade, 39, the deputy consul general in New York, from charges she underpaid a housekeeper.
An Iraqi Army commander was among those killed by suicide bombers and roadside explosions during a raid on the training camp of a Qaeda affiliate.
An Egyptian judge ordered ousted President Mohamed Morsi to stand trial on charges that he worked with foreign militants to free prisoners during the 2011 uprising.
On Saturday morning, four pro-government newspapers suggested that the United States was behind an escalating corruption investigation that has touched people in the prime minister’s inner circle.
The Somali president, Hassan Sheik Mohamud, nominated Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed after lawmakers forced out the former prime minister in a no-confidence vote.
The investigation of Li Dongsheng, a vice minister of public security, is part of a widening inquiry into China’s top officials under President Xi Jinping.
For the 27th time, a giant straw goat meant to symbolize Christmas spirit was burned down in Gavle, Sweden.
Ada Colau’s group, the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages, has blocked hundreds of evictions and pressed for changes in Spain’s hard-line mortgage laws.
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Before he even heard it, Vincent Rosenblatt felt the carioca funk music pumping out from the favelas near his home, rattling his windows and stirring his resolve to photograph the favela dance scene.
While the world was watching the funeral of Nelson Mandela, Jerome Delay made it his mission to remain in the violence-wracked Central African Republic, hoping to shed light on the crisis there.
Video posted online Thursday showed residents of the town of Darat Azza, near Aleppo, searching through the debris of a destroyed building for survivors in the wake of a government attack that activists said killed at least seven civilians.
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The War Across Syria 
