A federal judge has ruled that the Research Triangle Institute can be sued in the United States for the deaths of two Iraqi women killed by their security guards.
Federal prosecutors charged an Eritrean suspect, Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, of conspiring to provide material support to al-Shabab, the main insurgent army in Somalia.
Hundreds were again killed in violence around the city of Jos, Nigeria, with witnesses saying the attackers “knew what to do and were trained on how to do it.”
A building of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Lahore was targeted in a suicide blast, killing 13—but officials say it was beyond the Taliban’s capability.
Fierce clashes left some 50 fighters dead in northeast Afghanistan’s Baghlan province, pitting Taliban forces against their erstwhile allies in Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hezb-e-Islami.
The death toll from bomb attacks in Baghdad reached 37 as Iraqis voted in the country’s parliamentary election, while a car bomb again targeted Shi’ite pilgrims in Najaf.
Angry protests over an electoral dispute in Togo, with police using tear gas against opposition supporters, follow similar scenes two weeks earlier in Ivory Coast.
Striking Greek workers shut down transport and tried to storm the parliament building in Athens as lawmakers passed 4.8 billion euros ($6.5 billion) in budget cuts.
Ultra-orthodox Jews rioted in Jerusalem two days after dozens of Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces again stormed the Old City’s al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Municipal police in a suburb of Mexico’s northern industrial hub of Monterrey staged protests outside their precinct stations after three were killed in an ambush.
In Guatemala for a Drug War summit, Hillary Clinton called for recognition of the new Honduran government—and was accused by Hugo Chávez of “planting seeds of discord.”
The number of militias and other extremist groups in the US exploded in 2009, according to a report issued this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
