Special Reports

Islamic State in Libya fights to emulate Iraq, Syria success

MISRATA, Libya The attack bore all the traits of Islamic State in Iraq. A small unit of militants, armed with Kalashnikov rifles and suicide belts, hit the Tripoli prison just before sunrise.

Special Report: Migrant truck tragedy - one smuggler's story

ZAKHO, Iraq In photo after photo, Sediq Sevo's Facebook page lays out the riches and allure of Europe.

Turkey, 12 Nov 2015

Texas tries to stitch a safety net without Planned Parenthood

MCALLEN, TexasFour years after cutting off funding for Planned Parenthood, the state of Texas says it has been able to rebuild its safety net, in what could be a model for Republicans in Congress who hope to defund the nation's largest family planning provider at the national level.

Health, U.S. 12 Nov 2015

Jordanian killer was on a journey to 'paradise or hell'

AMMAN Days before he shot dead five people in a canteen during his lunch break, Jordanian police officer Anwar Abu Zeid sent a message to friends saying he was going on a journey to "paradise or hell", friends and security sources said.

11 Nov 2015

Special Report: Putin's daughters and Russia's second-generation elite

LONDON/MOSCOW Since Vladimir Putin began cementing his grip on Russia in the 1990s, many of his friends have grown famously rich.

10 Nov 2015

Keystone's death bolsters 'keep carbon in the ground' camp

WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES For environmentalists dedicated to killing it, President Barack Obama's rejection of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline unleashed a moment of euphoria. Activists celebrated with tequila shots at Sierra Club headquarters in San Francisco and in Lafayette Square across from the White House, site of the first anti-Keystone protests in 2011, when to most people it was just another pipeline.

Environment, Election 2016, Politics, Global Energy News 10 Nov 2015

The unbearable lightness of Chinese emissions data

BEIJING To get a sense of how hard it is to measure greenhouse gas emissions in China, it pays to visit the Deqingyuan poultry farm on the outskirts of Beijing, where streams of chicken manure are piped from wooden sheds to an industrial gas digester that rises above the ground like a tethered balloon.

Environment, China, Global Energy News 08 Nov 2015

Activist stampede pushes board directors into shareholders' arms

NEW YORK A few days after joining the board of Atlantic Power, private equity veteran Gilbert Palter said he got a flurry of calls from the energy company's top shareholders, who wanted more than just to wish him well.

08 Nov 2015

Sanctions fears choke nascent U.S. trade with Myanmar

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK/YANGON Western banks are cutting trade finance in Myanmar after learning that part of the country’s main port is controlled by a man blacklisted by Washington, threatening to stop nascent U.S. economic ties with the Southeast Asian nation in their tracks.

Money, Campaign Finance, Myanmar, World 07 Nov 2015

NSA says how often, not when, it discloses software flaws

SAN FRANCISCO The U.S. National Security Agency, seeking to rebut accusations that it hoards information about vulnerabilities in computer software, thereby leaving U.S. companies open to cyber attacks, said last week that it tells U.S. technology firms about the most serious flaws it finds more than 90 percent of the time.

Tech, Global Energy News 06 Nov 2015