Alan Cowell New York Times

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  Shooting of Nemtsov Draws Comparisons to Death of Another Putin Foe

  The fatal shooting in Moscow last week of a Russian opposition leader, Boris Y. Nemtsov, has prompted comparisons with the 2006 poisoning of Alexander V. Litvinenko, another foe of President Vladimir V. Putin.

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  Pistorius Planned A Trip Abroad with Steenkamp, Agent Says

  The testimony by Peet van Zyl, Pistorius' agent, was apparently designed by the defense as evidence of a loving relationship heading for a prosperous and glamorous future before it came to an abrupt halt in the early hours of Feb. 14, 2013.

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  Prosecutor hammers away as Oscar Pistorius resumes testimony

  It required a "great leap" for Oscar Pistorius to go from believing that he had shot intruders to suspecting that he had opened fire on his girlfriend, says prosecutor Gerrie Nel.

• Iran reports killing of nuclear scientist

  At a time of growing tension over its nuclear programme and mounting belligerence toward the West, Iran reported on Wednesday that an Iranian nuclear scientist died in what was termed a "terrorist bomb blast" in northern Tehran when an unidentified motorcyclist attached a magnetic explosive device to his car.

• Splits deepen in Greece over referendum on Euro debt deal

  Hours after Prime Minister George A Papandreou of Greece emerged from a meeting with Europe's leaders, pledging to hold a referendum on a new European debt deal, key ministers in his government rebelled against the idea on Thursday, deepening rifts within his government that could force its collapse.

• British hacking inquiry to recall James Murdoch

  A parliamentary panel investigating the phone hacking scandal within the British outpost of Rupert Murdoch's media empire said on Tuesday that it would recall his son, James Murdoch, to answer more questions about his knowledge of the affair.

• Phone hacking scandal: British Prime Minister David Cameron defends his actions

  Prime Minister David Cameron went before a loud and rowdy session of Parliament on Wednesday to offer a spirited defense of his record in Britain's phone hacking scandal. For the first time, he seemed to distance himself from a former tabloid editor he had hired to work in 10 Downing Street.

• Shocked, appalled and ashamed: Murdoch tells MPs probing phone hacking scandal

  Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal: Rupert Murdoch and his son James appeared Tuesday before British lawmakers probing the phone hacking scandal that has seized public life, raising questions about the police, politicians and the media elite in the worst crisis to confront Prime Minister David Cameron.

• Phone hacking scandal: London police assistant commissioner resigns

  The phone hacking scandal in Britain brought down another high-profile figure on Monday when John Yates, the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London and the country's most senior counter-terrorism officer, resigned his post. His departure came a day after the country's top police officer quit and Rebekah Brooks, the former chief...

• Cameron orders two inquiries into hacking scandal as former aide is arrested

  The British police on Friday arrested a former editor of The News of the World who is also a former senior aide to Prime Minister David Cameron, and rearrested the newspaper's former royal editor. The arrests deepened the crisis swirling around Rupert Murdoch's media empire in Britain over allegations of phone hacking and corruption.Struggling to c...

• Questions focus on Pakistan's role in terror fight

  The death of Osama bin Laden inspired many questions, but fewer answers on Tuesday: Could it lead to further erosion of support for foreign troops in Afghanistan and, subsequently, a faster withdrawal by NATO? And how should outside powers now deal with Pakistan, whose President denied Western accusations that his nuclear-armed nation lacked what h...

• Royal Wedding: Amid huge fanfare, William and Kate marry

  With fanfare and flags under cool, gray skies, Prince William and his longtime girlfriend, Kate Middleton, were married on Friday in one of the largest and most- watched events here in decades -- an interlude of romance in a time of austerity and a moment that will shape the future of the British monarchy. (In Pics: Kate & William, Just Married...

• Rebels stalled as diplomats meet on Libya in London

  Rebels seeking the ouster of Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi traded rocket fire with loyalist forces who blunted the insurgents' westward advance on Tuesday as an array of diplomats and public figures gathered in London to shape a political vision of a post-Gaddafi era."We meet now in London at a turning point," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to...

• Libya: NATO set to take full command of military campaign

  Overcoming internal squabbles, NATO prepared on Friday to assume leadership from the United States of the military campaign against Col. Moammar el-Gaddafi's forces, senior NATO officials said, while the allied effort won a rare military commitment in the Arab world when the United Arab Emirates said it would send warplanes to join patrols with Wes...

• NATO agrees to take command of no-fly zone in Libya

  NATO member nations approved Thursday evening a plan under which the alliance will assume command of the no-fly zone over Libya, while allied warplanes delivered a ferocious round of airstrikes on Libyan ground forces that seems to have begun to shift momentum from the troops loyal to Colonel Moammar el-Gaddafi to the rebels opposing him.The secret...